What is the big deal with Republicans and the abortion policies

We only have a right to choose as long as our choices do not interfere with the rights of others. That is why things like murder r illegal.
Women who become impregnated, by consequence of their actions, r not naive to the fact that pregnancy is a natural bi-product of intercourse. Besides cases that involve rape & incest, these women have made a choice to engage in an activity infamous for perpetuating new life. No one forces these women be sexually active.
Victims of rape & incest have a few things to say about abortion as well. (http://lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06090702.html)
Abortion also emotionally scars women for life. Why do we want to wound the women of America that way?

because it is killing another human being!!

galaxie girl is right.its not your body! its a helpless baby!!!! its idiots like u that are sending our world to h*** in a handbasket.u people make me sooo mad!

its very simple, pro-lifers believe that live begins at conception while pro-choicers believe it starts much later in a pregnancy.. some so much as say its not alive until birth. i'd like to think most pro-choice people believe it starts before birth though because it already has an active mind & body even at 45 days.. but lets get back to answering ur original question.

The BIG deal is that pro-life people view an embryo as a stage of human life, as an actual individual, so therefore it is not part of the woman is body. I mean it depends on it for survival but still is seperate in that it has its own environment seperated from the mother & has its own DNA. pro-lifers believe the unborn should have the same human rights as everyone else. I understand ur not pro-life but please understand the other side of this issue & why pro-lifers feel so strongly about it.

pro choiceee.

Your assumption that an abortion constitutes doing what u want with *your own body* is factually wrong in two different ways: (1) From a purely scientific point of view, from the time of conception, the baby is genetically unique & distinct from the mother, the father or any other living thing or human. This logical argument alone should suffice, but just in case.(2) From a theological point of view, we r not our own, but each one of us was bought at a price, the price of the perfect God-Man, Jesus Christ is suffering & death on the cross to redeem us from sin, death & the power of Satan.

The issue of abortion is, in fact a matter of right & wrong. You say that it is a matter of personal choice, but would u use the same argument for rape? Hmm, ''I am personally against rape, but I think it is a matter of personal choice, therefore it should be legalized.''? That is crazy! So why do u make that argument in favor of abortion which is the killing of another human being?

I do not think that not allowing for an abortion in the case of incest or rape is necessarily bad. My high school math teacher always reminded us that two negatives may make a positive, but that does not mean two wrongs make a right. Why should we encourage a woman to respond to the violence done to her with violence toward the innocent unborn child that resulted? That is like suggesting to a kid whose been bullied at school to go home & hurt his younger siblings or kill the dog. It does not make much sense in the arena of justice. That wo not bring justice to the real wrong doer, but will only punish someone who is innocent of the crime committed. Neither will it put a stop to the wrongdoing, but in fact will encourage it by not incurring a just punishment on the actual wrongdoer. Have u ever thought that many men who commit incest or rape against a woman actually push her to get an abortion so that all evidence of his wrongdoing is erased? How is that justice? There r several documented cases of this, so abortion is not a solution to the victim is problems, but a ''solution'' for the victimizer that allows him to keep victimizing! (BTW, only 1-2% of abortions r done because of rape or incest.)

The woman will still have to endure the suffering that goes along with rape or incest. Then on top of it, she having been underinformed at best about the dangers & suffering that comes with abortion will have to deal with those things as well. She will have been essentially raped twice, once by the original wrongdoer & another time by the abortionist (and largely our society who allows this atrocity). Abortion does not only destroy an unborn human, it also hurts women, physically (almost always with reproductive consequences & sometimes with death!), mentally, emotionally & spiritually. It is about time people wake up to this fact:

http://feministsforlife.org/

http://lifenews.com/nat1149.html

http://sba-list.org/site/c.ddJBKJNsFqG/b.4137661/

http://ruthinstitute.org/index.html (Read, ''Why the World Needs Ruth'' at bottom of page)

There r caring, compassionate ministries out there that take into account the connection between sexual abuse & abortion. Here is one: http://word-of-hope.org/index.html And there r countless Crisis Pregnancy Centers throughout the country who have the same compassion for women enduring crisis pregnancies. It is & should be our concern both on an individual level & societal level about how women r treated. They r not only important, but essential to a healthy society!

Here is r some reality check videos for u to chew on concerning abortion. Anyone who tries to sanitize the real violence going on in such procedures is the one who ought to think again about what is crazy:

http://obamamustsee.com/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cjNo_0cW-ek&feature=related

In addition, abortion is important to the Republican platform because of the societal & ecomonical consequences of it. If it hurts women, it hurts society because women r essential to a healthy society as mothers of the families that make up that society.

Not many people make the connection between abortion & economics, but there is one. Democrats yell & scream about the failing Social Security system. It probably would not be failing if we had not killed off the millions of children who would be contributing to the system today.

Democrats yell & scream about the failing health care system, but they push doctors whose profession is by nature to save lives, to perform unecessary abortions! Tell me, if doctors r supposed to be improving & saving lives, why r Democrats pushing for legislation that would force pro-life OB/GYNs to perform or refer for abortions, & even move closer to abortion clinics!? And if we start forcing them to do this, why not assisted suicide? And if this. well, what the heck r doctor is for. to save lives or destroy them?

Why r Republicans so ''crazy''? No, why r Democrats so willingly blind to things that r so obvious?!

Spoken like a true liberal. Do u really have to ask? Republicans can care less what u do with ur body, matter of fact if these women fell of the face of the earth we would not miss you. It is THE BABY. THE BABY INSIDE OF THE WOMAN. It is not about the woman. To kill that baby because a weak women does not have the strength to bring it into the world even though there r millions of people who want to adopt, is murder & murder last I checked was against the law.

~Just look a little further into why a Republican may not wnt to legalize abortion:

Republicans do not want MY tax dollars to go to my lazy next door neighbor is abortion, the same girl who has a different guy over every night & does not feel like going on birth control even though there r dozens of options these days, & personally, I thank the Republicans for that mindset because I think that is fair.

It is not just Republicans that feel this way. I know alot of Democrat and Independents that feel this way. It is a HUMAN with DNA. We feel it is taking a life. To people who feel abortion is wrong it is not about a woman is choice. It is about protecting another human being that CANNOT speak for themselves or protect themselves

Easy answer. Abortion, whatever the circumstance or ''reason'' is murder. There is no room for argument or discussion on this fact.

i agree to a certain extent, there has to be a limit to this womans ''freedom'' b/c at a certain point, she is responsible for another being, and its her own fault killing it is wrong. i only agree with early abortion, when the baby is not fully formed yet (cant feel pain) and if she was raped or something

Because it is not ''their body'' as you claim. The fetus is its own separate body. It has its own DNA and everything. It is a separate human, and should be respected as such. Having done nothing wrong, it should not be killed (yes, it is alive - that is how it grows. you can not grow if you are not alive).

it is actually really hypocritical if someone says ''abort ONLY in the case of rape''

I'd rather they say do not abort at all than say only in the case of rape, because if they say only in case of rape, it means that by outlawing abortion they're trying to punish girls for having sex