Ben Carson Says There's A War On 'What's Inside Of Women'

[Lakhota]

I wish this dude would think this shit through before spouting it. He's a good guy, but woefully unprepared for what he is attempting to do.

I agree! He's in way over his head. He's clueless enough on domestic issues - so I can't imagine him on foreign issues.

 

[g5000]

Roe v Wade could not be passed today. It restricts abortion. Unrestricted only in the first trimester. Only on the advice of a doctor in the second trimester. Not at all in the third trimester unless the life of the mother is threatened.

Roe v. Wade – Case Brief Summary

Then why are anti-choice NaziCons so desperate to overturn and weaken it?

It is a matter of principle. Something you are incapable of understanding, apparently.

 

[Lakhota]

Roe v Wade could not be passed today. It restricts abortion. Unrestricted only in the first trimester. Only on the advice of a doctor in the second trimester. Not at all in the third trimester unless the life of the mother is threatened.

Roe v. Wade – Case Brief Summary

Then why are anti-choice NaziCons so desperate to overturn and weaken it?

It is a matter of principle. Something you are incapable of understanding, apparently.

No, it's a matter of law and women's rights. They finally escaped the back-ally butchers.

 

[Lakhota]

Why is it mostly Republican men who propose and pass legislation affecting women's reproductive rights? If these men could get pregnant - Walmart would be performing abortions.

 

[g5000]

Roe v Wade could not be passed today. It restricts abortion. Unrestricted only in the first trimester. Only on the advice of a doctor in the second trimester. Not at all in the third trimester unless the life of the mother is threatened.

Roe v. Wade – Case Brief Summary

Then why are anti-choice NaziCons so desperate to overturn and weaken it?

It is a matter of principle. Something you are incapable of understanding, apparently.

No, it's a matter of law and women's rights. They finally escaped the back-ally butchers.

The back alley abortions are a myth for rubes like you.

 

[BlueGin]

Carson believes that a fetus is an innocent human life, and that the slaughter of innocent human life is murder.

Not really all that tough to understand, unless you don't want to understand it.

And I'm pro choice.
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He should also "understand" that Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and women have the right to choose.

I guess you missed the part where he said women need to be re educated and re think their approach to the procedure...huh?

 

[g5000]

"We spoke of 5,000 - 10,000 deaths a year.... I confess that I knew the figures were totally false ... it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?" - Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League

 

[BlueGin]

Roe v Wade could not be passed today. It restricts abortion. Unrestricted only in the first trimester. Only on the advice of a doctor in the second trimester. Not at all in the third trimester unless the life of the mother is threatened.

Roe v. Wade – Case Brief Summary

Then why are anti-choice NaziCons so desperate to overturn and weaken it?

It is a matter of principle. Something you are incapable of understanding, apparently.

No, it's a matter of law and women's rights. They finally escaped the back-ally butchers.

They did? Why was Kermit Gosnell convicted of murder then?

 

[Katzndogz]

All that has to be done is for Planned Parenthood to get a market for women's organs and a way they can service their customers "legally". Women will suddenly not survive the procedure.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Roe v Wade could not be passed today. It restricts abortion. Unrestricted only in the first trimester. Only on the advice of a doctor in the second trimester. Not at all in the third trimester unless the life of the mother is threatened.

Roe v. Wade – Case Brief Summary

Then why are anti-choice NaziCons so desperate to overturn and weaken it?

They have been.

Slowly and methodically, they've been hemming it in and reducing the so called freedom to get an abortion.

While others yell and scream others quietly make it happen.

‘Roe v. Wade is almost entirely dead’: Half of Texas’ abortion clinics could close after big ruling

Even Ginsburg wrote that it was a poorly written decision. She agree with the outcome, but the reasoning sucked.

Harry Blackmunn belongs in the hall of morons.

I would not deny a woman the right to chose an abortion.

But Harry mocked our system and set himself up as god.

 

[hazlnut]

Dr. Carson's next book.

 

[playtime]

Roe v Wade could not be passed today. It restricts abortion. Unrestricted only in the first trimester. Only on the advice of a doctor in the second trimester. Not at all in the third trimester unless the life of the mother is threatened.

Roe v. Wade – Case Brief Summary

Then why are anti-choice NaziCons so desperate to overturn and weaken it?

It is a matter of principle. Something you are incapable of understanding, apparently.

No, it's a matter of law and women's rights. They finally escaped the back-ally butchers.

The back alley abortions are a myth for rubes like you.

Illegal Abortions Were Common
Estimates of the number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year. One analysis, extrapolating from data from North Carolina, concluded that an estimated 829,000 illegal or self-induced abortions occurred in 1967.

One stark indication of the prevalence of illegal abortion was the death toll. In 1930, abortion was listed as the official cause of death for almost 2,700 women—nearly one-fifth (18%) of maternal deaths recorded in that year. The death toll had declined to just under 1,700 by 1940, and to just over 300 by 1950 (most likely because of the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, which permitted more effective treatment of the infections that frequently developed after illegal abortion). By 1965, the number of deaths due to illegal abortion had fallen to just under 200, but illegal abortion still accounted for 17% of all deaths attributed to pregnancy and childbirth that year. And these are just the number that were officially reported; the actual number was likely much higher.

Poor women and their families were disproportionately impacted. A study of low-income women in New York City in the 1960s found that almost one in 10 (8%) had ever attempted to terminate a pregnancy by illegal abortion; almost four in 10 (38%) said that a friend, relative or acquaintance had attempted to obtain an abortion. Of the low-income women in that study who said they had had an abortion, eight in 10 (77%) said that they had attempted a self-induced procedure, with only 2% saying that a physician had been involved in any way.

These women paid a steep price for illegal procedures. In 1962 alone, nearly 1,600 women were admitted to Harlem Hospital Center in New York City for incomplete abortions, which was one abortion-related hospital admission for every 42 deliveries at that hospital that year. In 1968, the University of Southern California Los Angeles County Medical Center, another large public facility serving primarily indigent patients, admitted 701 women with septic abortions, one admission for every 14 deliveries.

A clear racial disparity is evident in the data of mortality because of illegal abortion: In New York City in the early 1960s, one in four childbirth-related deaths among white women was due to abortion; in comparison, abortion accounted for one in two childbirth-related deaths among nonwhite and Puerto Rican women.

Even in the early 1970s, when abortion was legal in some states, a legal abortion was simply out of reach for many. Minority women suffered the most: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 1972 alone, 130,000 women obtained illegal or self-induced procedures, 39 of whom died. Furthermore, from 1972 to 1974, the mortality rate due to illegal abortion for nonwhite women was 12 times that for white women.

Learning From History
By making abortion legal nationwide, Roe v. Wade has had a dramatic impact on the health and well-being of American women. Deaths from abortion have plummeted, and are now a rarity (see chart). In addition, women have been able to have abortions earlier in pregnancy when the procedure is safest: The proportion of abortions obtained early in the first trimester has risen from 20% in 1970 to 56% in 1998 (see chart). These public health accomplishments may now be seriously threatened.
see chart). These public health accomplishments may now be seriously threatened.

Abortion Mortality
The number of deaths from abortion has declined dramatically since Roe v. Wade.

Source: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Trends in Abortion in the United States, 1973-2000, January 2003.

Early Abortions

Since Roe v. Wade, a greater proportion of women who have an abortion have done so early in pregnancy.

Source: Trends in Abortion in the United States, 1973-2000 and Abortion and Women's Health.

Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past be Prologue?

 

[playtime]

Roe v Wade could not be passed today. It restricts abortion. Unrestricted only in the first trimester. Only on the advice of a doctor in the second trimester. Not at all in the third trimester unless the life of the mother is threatened.

Roe v. Wade – Case Brief Summary

Then why are anti-choice NaziCons so desperate to overturn and weaken it?

It is a matter of principle. Something you are incapable of understanding, apparently.

No, it's a matter of law and women's rights. They finally escaped the back-ally butchers.

They did? Why was Kermit Gosnell convicted of murder then?

Gosnell was a sick bastard who is not a typical physician who performs abortions.

 

[playtime]

Roe v Wade could not be passed today. It restricts abortion. Unrestricted only in the first trimester. Only on the advice of a doctor in the second trimester. Not at all in the third trimester unless the life of the mother is threatened.

Roe v. Wade – Case Brief Summary

Then why are anti-choice NaziCons so desperate to overturn and weaken it?

They have been.

Slowly and methodically, they've been hemming it in and reducing the so called freedom to get an abortion.

While others yell and scream others quietly make it happen.

‘Roe v. Wade is almost entirely dead’: Half of Texas’ abortion clinics could close after big ruling

Even Ginsburg wrote that it was a poorly written decision. She agree with the outcome, but the reasoning sucked.

Harry Blackmunn belongs in the hall of morons.

I would not deny a woman the right to chose an abortion.

But Harry mocked our system and set himself up as god.

Texas should secede already.

 

[Political Junky]

Carson is looking forward to making big bucks on the lecture circuit.

 

[Lakhota]

Carson is looking forward to making big bucks on the lecture circuit.

Good point. That must be his game plan - because he certainly won't be living in the White House.

 

[Jackson]

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson rejected Democratic characterizations of a GOP "war on women," saying Thursday that the actual war is on "what's inside of women."

"They tell you that there's a war on women," he said at a campaign event in Little Rock, Arkansas. "There is no war on women. There may be a war on what's inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country."

A casual reader of this comment may, understandably, be confused. What is Carson referring to? An assault on women's hearts? An attack on their spleens? A campaign against their esophagi?

Of course, since this is a Republican presidential primary, Carson was alluding to abortion. But he left out a relatively simple explanation for his "real war" by leaving out what he said previously, which was that the war he is concerned about is on "that cute little baby inside of them." (He also said "we need to re-educate the women" so they rethink their approach to the procedure.)

A press secretary for his campaign did not respond to a request for comment to confirm that Carson was talking about abortion.

Okay, I'm confused. Isn't everything inside a woman part of the woman? At least Carson admits there is a war on women.

Watch the video of Carson, via Raw Story, below:

More: Ben Carson Says There's A War On 'What's Inside Of Women,' Leaving Out Some Crucial Context

Okay, I'm confused. Isn't everything inside a woman part of the woman? At least Carson admits there is a war on women.

And the war is on the Democrat side.

 

[Vigilante]

 

[LeftofLeft]

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson rejected Democratic characterizations of a GOP "war on women," saying Thursday that the actual war is on "what's inside of women."

"They tell you that there's a war on women," he said at a campaign event in Little Rock, Arkansas. "There is no war on women. There may be a war on what's inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country."

A casual reader of this comment may, understandably, be confused. What is Carson referring to? An assault on women's hearts? An attack on their spleens? A campaign against their esophagi?

Of course, since this is a Republican presidential primary, Carson was alluding to abortion. But he left out a relatively simple explanation for his "real war" by leaving out what he said previously, which was that the war he is concerned about is on "that cute little baby inside of them." (He also said "we need to re-educate the women" so they rethink their approach to the procedure.)

A press secretary for his campaign did not respond to a request for comment to confirm that Carson was talking about abortion.

Carson is a frequent and outspoken critic of the procedure, comparing it to human sacrifice and slavery. He's also called abortion "the number one cause of death for black people" -- it's actually heart disease -- and suggested that fetuses be added to endangered species lists.

Watch the video of Carson, via Raw Story, below:

More: Ben Carson Says There's A War On 'What's Inside Of Women,' Leaving Out Some Crucial Context

Okay, I'm confused. Isn't everything inside a woman part of the woman? At least Carson admits there is a war on women.

Hillary paid her bitches $0.88 vs $1.00 she paid the white guys.

 

[Lakhota]

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson rejected Democratic characterizations of a GOP "war on women," saying Thursday that the actual war is on "what's inside of women."

"They tell you that there's a war on women," he said at a campaign event in Little Rock, Arkansas. "There is no war on women. There may be a war on what's inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country."

A casual reader of this comment may, understandably, be confused. What is Carson referring to? An assault on women's hearts? An attack on their spleens? A campaign against their esophagi?

Of course, since this is a Republican presidential primary, Carson was alluding to abortion. But he left out a relatively simple explanation for his "real war" by leaving out what he said previously, which was that the war he is concerned about is on "that cute little baby inside of them." (He also said "we need to re-educate the women" so they rethink their approach to the procedure.)

A press secretary for his campaign did not respond to a request for comment to confirm that Carson was talking about abortion.

Okay, I'm confused. Isn't everything inside a woman part of the woman? At least Carson admits there is a war on women.

Watch the video of Carson, via Raw Story, below:

More: Ben Carson Says There's A War On 'What's Inside Of Women,' Leaving Out Some Crucial Context

Okay, I'm confused. Isn't everything inside a woman part of the woman? At least Carson admits there is a war on women.

And the war is on the Democrat side.

Please explain that to us with "credible" facts. I'm unaware of any Democrats trying to oppress women's reproductive rights.