Another progressive move for President Obama. He’s just slappin’ ‘em out, one after the other.

I LOVE it!

All of the comments too….

Shift, do you get the part about how some ‘life enhancing beliefs’ aren’t really ‘life enhancing’ at all? Like for instance when people have more children than they can afford to feed and/or otherwise nurture?

And then there’s that scarcity issue. Those who would indiscriminately (and selfishly) continue to populate the world don’t seem to consider these basics like food and water…the things that all living beings need to survive. There is NOT an infinite supply of either, and there is no Messiah just create the stuff out of nothing. (I know Jesus allegedly did it, but that’s a different deal).

godistwaddle-
i can’t believe you could commit such blatant racism on truthdig. for shame! I would be proud to be born in Zimbabwe, Sudan or Nigeria.i’m sure my mommy would be poor, but i’d belong to a fine culture and big extended family.
i must also remind you that troubles in Africa were all brought- and are still being brought- by western colonialists/multinationals

godistwaddle, while I don’t disagree with your post…um…well, I don’t disagree…um…kind of a downer outlook though, no? 

What anti-choice activists fail to acknowledge is that pro-choice doesn’t mean pro-abortion.  I think Obama is right on with this issue:  He wants abortion to be safe, legal, and available, but he’d like to work toward drastically reducing its frequency.  Btw, you’ll notice I use the term “anti-choice” since I rarely find that “pro-lifers” have respect for life outside of the womb.  They’re often pro-war, pro-poverty, pro-death penalty, etc.

The banning of all contraception and all abortions under any circumstances whatsoever is nothing more nor less than a war on the poor and by extension a war on all of us. As we know, extreme poverty makes people violent and desperate. The main reason the standard of living in the west has risen to where it has is because safe effective forms of contraception were invented. The main reason women have been able to get an education and work to provide for themselves and their children in the west has been access to contraception so that they could plan their families and only have as many children as they could afford. What right do we have to deny the undisputed benefits of safe, effective contraception - healthwise and economically- to the women of poorer countries? The religious bigots will say it’s a sin but that’s only because they think reason’s a sin in and of itself.

godistwaddle…

Do I detect a tinge of cynicism??!!

Excuse me, Shift, but my thinking goes like this: The reason “fully one third of all animals on Earth are now threatened with extinction,” is because there are fully six and a half billion human animals on Earth. An “immediate and comprehensive commitment to life affirming policies and actions” would be to drastically halt the reproduction of humans, not to continue to populate the Earth with more of them at the expense of a livable planet. Although, I’m certain that mother nature will soon address the human animal overpopulation problem in her own inimitable fashion.

Any thinking fetus, were there such a thing, would cry out to be aborted rather than birthed in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Sudan, or numerous other places, including, perhaps, a Republican dominated U.S.

Life is no gift.  It is a stinking, treacherous game, and 99 men out of a thousand are bastards.

As an independent thinker I do depart from Progressive dogma on the issue of abortion. 

In the larger picture a life sustaining belief system is necessary, in my view, to sustain human existence on earth. Human abortion is therefore a grave mistake that violates our commitment to a life sustaining value system.  Fully one third of all animals on Earth are now threatened with extinction. Man is not an island and therefore the extinction of animal life will invariably lead to the extinction of man.  In my opinion, nothing less that an immediate and comprehensive commitment to life affirming policies and actions will be enough to save ourselves.  I fear that Progressives who fail to adopt life enhancing beliefs will by default render their other beliefs moot.