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Schism
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Hello ~ New Here.
by witnomore inalthough i haven't been a witness for over 20 years, it has taken me that long to finally feel brave enough to join another church (aka christendom) and begin researching my past beliefs.
all this research has opened a few old wounds, but mostly liberated me from a lot of quilt.
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staying a witness
by J. Hofer inthe other day i overheard a conversation about jws and somebody said jws don't celebrate birthdays.
the other one said he has a few friends who are jws and while they don't celebrate their own birthdays, they do celebrate his.... then a thought crossed my mind: what if those of us who did not switch to another religion and have a somewhat non-jw lifestyle (not that hard) just keep saying we are jws?
given that there should be more ex-jws than jws by now, how would that influence the public view of jws?.
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Abortion Ban
by Schism ini want to pass on something to you.
i don't know where you all stand on the matter, and it is a very sensitive subject to bring up to anyone.
but you know that law that was passed the other day?
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Schism
Another thing you can sign if you want to do more:
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Abortion Ban
by Schism ini want to pass on something to you.
i don't know where you all stand on the matter, and it is a very sensitive subject to bring up to anyone.
but you know that law that was passed the other day?
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Thank you BlackSwan! Please pass the word around! We need to stay awake, otherwise our basic human rights will be swept away before our very eyes. And I'm not talking about abortion rights. We have been having this anti-sex campaign right under our noses. No sex ed in schools, pharmacists are being protected by law to refuse to fill scripts for daily birth control pills, as well as the "demonized" morning-after pill. Before you know it, there will be a camera in all of our bedrooms making sure husbands and wives have sex the "proper" way, and only once a year to become pregnant.
This petition was created to nip this slippery slope in the butt before it gets even more insane. And by insane, I mean that a law was just passed that doesn't make an exception for an adult's life. That, my friends, is insane. JWs have abortion to save their own lives. This is so extremist, I don't even know what to say. I am anti-late-term abortions, but this law went over-board.
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Abortion Ban
by Schism ini want to pass on something to you.
i don't know where you all stand on the matter, and it is a very sensitive subject to bring up to anyone.
but you know that law that was passed the other day?
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PS. Bush imposed this in 2003.
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Abortion Ban
by Schism ini want to pass on something to you.
i don't know where you all stand on the matter, and it is a very sensitive subject to bring up to anyone.
but you know that law that was passed the other day?
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Schism
No one asked the majority of America. The law doesn't give consideration for a woman's life if it is at stake, and if you are too blindfolded to see how unconstitutional that is, fine. The majority of America is pro-choice. The majority of people who are pro-life agree that the life of the mother is more important, and that by killing the mother, both mother and fetus will die. No one supported the minor detail flaw in the law: That it gives no consideration to circumstances that may mean life vs. death to the mother. Even if there are a hundred other ways to abort a dangerous pregnancy, the law still should have had an allowance for the mother's life.
I am not here to debate. If you don't want to sign it, don't sign it. I'm not asking how anyone feels about PBA, I am giving those opposed to the court's decision a way to voice their opinion through a petition. If that doesn't apply to you, then don't accept my invitation to sign the petition.
I am not arguing with anyone. As I said, sign it if you agree that doctors should make this call.
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Abortion Ban
by Schism ini want to pass on something to you.
i don't know where you all stand on the matter, and it is a very sensitive subject to bring up to anyone.
but you know that law that was passed the other day?
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I'd also like to add that the other form of late-term abortions (which are also used as an EMERGENCY to save the mother) is much crueler and more gruesome to the fetus than part-birth. There was no logical reasoning behind the new ban, other than to establish that the unborn are worth more than the living adult that is carrying it. They are setting the stage for complete control over how much sex a married couple can have. In their minds, it's missionary style, for the purpose of reproduction. Is that what we want our country turned into? A place that is more conservative than even JW-land?
Once again, and I cannot emphasize this enough: Late term abortions are already extremely rare, and are not used as a form of birth control. They are there in case something goes terribly wrong and the mother's life is on the line. PBA is a doctor's safest route to take to ensure that his adult patient survives, and the courts just decided for the doctor to take the less safe route. This is a CONTROL issue, set in place by a group who knows nothing about OB/GYN medicine, and it was done in an attempt to MIX church and state. Our constitution is crumbling before our eyes and we don't even know it.
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Abortion Ban
by Schism ini want to pass on something to you.
i don't know where you all stand on the matter, and it is a very sensitive subject to bring up to anyone.
but you know that law that was passed the other day?
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The ban is against the safest form of late-term abortions. It is not up to Bush to decide for a DOCTOR what the safest method to save a woman's life would be. This should not be a political issue, but it is. Americans need to stand up to these extremists and let the doctors do the deciding of which method to use.
We aren't talking about killing babies. This is about men who are slowly chipping away at all forms of contraception. Did you know that this is only the start of an all-out attack on birth control, including condoms and the pill? If this is a free country, this needs to be stopped before it progresses. We aren't all Catholic, and not every married couple wants to fertilize every egg. Furthermore, contraception is a private issue between a man and a woman. They are passing a law that makes it ok for a pharmacist to refuse to fill a script for birth control pills (not the morning-after pill, but the actual everyday pill). This insanity has gone far enough and needs to be addressed. Please sign the petition to ensure that reproductive freedom isn't taken away from women, men, married, unmarried, etc.