I have sort of an admission to make. In my younger days I used to have a huge crush on Kathleen Turner. Now granted that was back during her "Body Heat" days, but I just thought she was really something. Back then I cared a lot less about politics and as far as I was concerned she could have been a flaming communist and it just wouldn't have mattered to me. Fast forward 31 years and I've become a lot older and much, much wiser, and sadly for Ms. Turner she seems to have just become a lot older, and a lot heavier. Today Ms. Turner, who turned 58 years old this past June, but looks a bit older, is the chairwoman of Planned Parenthood’s Board of Advocates, and recently criticized “personhood” legislation, which defines life as beginning at conception and ending at natural death. And she even went so far as to ask the rather bizarre question of how a human embryo would know it had such personhood rights. Funny, must any of possess the knowledge that we have rights in order to possess them?
Anyway, at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Ms. Turner spoke about reproductive 'rights' and mocked the idea of a "personhood" law. She said, “And then we have the so-called ‘personhood’ bills.” She went on to say, “Now these would give full legal rights to a zygote, at the moment sperm meets egg. Frankly, I have always wondered, ‘How do they know?’” Turner continued, “The personhood movement not only proposes to redefine pregnancy as occurring at the moment of fertilization, even though up to half of fertilized eggs do not result in a sustainable pregnancy. But also once a zygote -- weeks away from a potential pink plus sign on a stick -- to be recognized as a complete human being with equal rights.” “Now this would criminalize many of the most common forms of contraception, not to mention the in-vitro fertilization treatment and stem-cell research, as well as complicate the legality of medical intervention in the event of a life-threatening pregnancy,” she said.
Back in October of 2011, Mr. Romney appeared on Huckabee and said while as governor of Massachusetts, he would have supported a state constitutional amendment stipulating that life begins at conception. Huckabee: “Would you have supported a constitutional amendment that would’ve established the definition of life at conception?” Romney: “Absolutely.” During her remarks on Wednesday, Ms. Turner spoke generally about the reproductive 'rights' of women, and emphasized the need for women to support Barry "Almighty" in the upcoming election. In fiscal year 2010, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) got $487.4 million from the federal and state governments, up from $363.2 million the previous year, making taxpayer funding about one-third of the organization’s $1 billion in assets. And according to its fact sheet, Planned Parenthood performed 329,445 abortions in 2010. Speaking for myself, I have never been pro-abortion, and as such, I don't feel that my tax money should go to pay for abortions.
I'm of the opinion that when a woman becomes pregnant, the fetus is not 'part' of her, but is a separate living human being. From that point on there a two individuals involved here, and one does not have any more rights than the other. Obvious, this is not how Ms. Turner and many of her ilk view the situation. And according to her rather odd logic, since the fetus doesn't know it possesses any rights, it simply has none. I've always thought it rather odd that liberals are so much in favor of abortion since most of those who choose abortion are their fellow liberals. And, now this may sound a little twisted, when you take into account that over 40 million abortions have been performed since Roe vs Wade, and that the vast majority of them were liberals, it would seem to me that they have been quite busy killing off their own voter base. And as elections seem to grow closer and closer, if the liberals maybe hadn't been in such rush to murder so many unborn voters, they would probably be winning elections by some pretty substantial margins.
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