March 8, 2013
Dear Ms. Gisburne:
Thank you for contacting
me about abortion (post - Effects
of Abortion on Society, February 13, 2013). I appreciate hearing from you.
While abortion is an
issue that has tended to divide Americans, I believe we can acknowledge women’s
rights and still work together to reduce the number of abortions. I believe
abortion should be safe and legal, consistent with Roe v. Wade. A decision this
personal is best left to a woman, her family, her doctor, and her conscience.
Late-term abortions, including so-called partial birth abortions, should be
strictly limited to cases where the life of the mother is in danger or she
faces a medically certified risk of grievous physical injury.
At the same time, we can
do more to diminish the frequency of abortion. We must make family planning
services and age-appropriate sex education more available. This will help
couples avoid the unplanned pregnancies that often lead to abortion. I support
the federal family planning program, which provides more than five million
women with a wide range of services designed to improve maternal and infant
health, lower the incidence of unintended pregnancy, and prevent abortions.
This program has a proven record of success. I oppose gag rules that would
prevent women from receiving full information about their pregnancy options.
In addition, we must go beyond
contraception. We need to support pregnant women when they find themselves in a
difficult situation by working to ensure that they have access to health care,
before and after the baby is born. Providing programs that teach parenting
skills, nutrition assistance, income support, and caring adoption alternatives
is critical to family planning.
We should also address the underlying conditions that can affect a couple’s response to an unplanned pregnancy. Minimum wage increases, affordable health care, expanded child care options, and improved educational assistance can make it easier for a couple to welcome a child into the family.
I also favor tax breaks
to help families afford adoptions, and I have cosponsored legislation,
subsequently enacted into law, that extended and increased the tax credit for
adoption expenses.
Thank you again for
sharing your views with me. Please feel free to stay in touch.
Sincerely,
Richard J. Durbin
United States Senator
RJD/ab
Senator Durbin:
Abortion is wrong.
Nothing can be said to ever make it right.
Abortion is wrong. Your
position, as you continually state in your letters, is pap and sounds more
ludicrous every time I read it. It shows a lack of a sense of right and wrong.
It is as if you were taken to the dome of the Capitol and shown the power you
could have if you subjugated your principles to the Democratic platform, no
matter how it conflicted with morality.
Abortion is wrong. “While
abortion is an issue that has tended to divide Americans, I believe we can
acknowledge women’s rights and still work together to reduce the number of
abortions.” Women’s rights is a misnomer. I am a woman. I have been one for
62 years. My rights end where they harm someone else. Abortion kills, therefore
abortion cannot be a “right”. Nothing is being done, especially by the
Democratic party to reduce the number of abortions. In fact, the position of
the party today is to push for more abortions through increased access,
funding, and decreased regulations, both on the federal and state levels.
Abortion is wrong. “I
believe abortion should be safe and legal, consistent with Roe v. Wade.”
Neither rulings of the Supreme Court, legislation of Congress, nor a position
in the Democratic platform will ever make it right. Abortion laws were founded
on lies and is continues to be protected not for the good of women but for the
bottom line of the industry. The rights of a human being to life ought not be
subject to the decisions of another, even the woman who is carrying that life
in her womb.
Abortion is wrong. “A
decision this personal is best left to a woman, her family, her doctor, and her
conscience.” By regurgitating the lies of the abortion industry, as taken on
by the Democratic party, you are harming women by letting them believe that
abortion is “an acceptable method of birth control”. By regurgitating the lies
of the abortion industry, as taken on by the Democratic party, you have helped
condemn millions of human beings to brutal deaths. By regurgitating the lies of
the abortion industry, as taken on by the Democratic party, you are ultimately
violating the my rights since the standards of personhood in abortion ‘rights’
could be applied to anyone with just an alteration of parameters. Do not think
that this has not already happened.
Abortion is wrong. “At
the same time, we can do more to diminish the frequency of abortion.” ... “I
oppose gag rules that would prevent women from receiving full information about
their pregnancy options.” What world are you living in? Planned Parenthood
continuously lobbies against any law which would force them to give any
information which could dissuade a woman from going through with an abortion.
Ultrasounds, information on fetal development, alternative options, etc. all
could cause a woman to not abort, which in turn means loss of revenue for the
abortion clinic. The new health mandate requires companies to pay for
contraception and ‘abortion’ pills, against the conscience of the owner. I
learned back in the 1960’s that the ‘pill’ could cause an abortion, by
preventing the embryo from implanting. Where have you been?
Abortion is wrong. “We
need to support pregnant women when they find themselves in a difficult
situation by working to ensure that they have access to health care, before and
after the baby is born.” In spite of the efforts, of mainly churches, to
advertise services, women turn to Planned Parenthood when they are faced with a
‘difficult situation’. Why? Planned Parenthood’s visibility, guaranteed now by
its connection to the White House. Even the federal family planning program is
invisible. I tried a search for clinics in Chicago with no results. The only
way to ensure that money for health care is truly used for health care is to separate
all abortion services from health care. Planned Parenthood does not
encourage alternatives to abortion, just look at the numbers. Women have stated
that Planned Parenthood has told them that they are NOT a social service. No
amount of social services can make abortion right. No amount of social services
can aid someone who is already dead.
Abortion is wrong.
“We should also address the underlying conditions that can affect a couple’s
response to an unplanned pregnancy.” I agree.
Abortion is wrong.
Nothing can be said to ever make it right. You ought to be doing everything you
are able to do to eliminate abortion. In accepting abortion as a rightful law
of the country, you are NOT doing everything you could in your position
of power. "It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that
Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who
are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of
life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped," Hubert H. Humphrey
Abortion is wrong. You
are a scandal to the Catholic Church. 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for
one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.' Matthew 25:40. In the
end, those millions of humans whom you allowed to be brutally destroyed will
stand as witnesses.
Mary Ann Gisburne
"We are not some
casual or meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a
thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is
necessary." Pope Benedict XVI, April 24, 2003
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