Well, I'm glad Maryland is a safe haven for abortion. Women should have a safe place to receive this type of medical care.

The only safe haven for abortion is ninety miles south of Miami, Fl. Havana, Cuba.

I think these people are evil!!!! I had to explain abortion to my 7 and 8 year old this morning on the way to camp because they saw pictures of dead babies!!!! I don't care what they believe in, but don't subject young children to those pictures!!!! This is wrong on every level. These people don't have compassion for kids!!!!

Why the hate, viciousness and derision? You "ladies" must be members/employees of NARAL and Planned Parenthood. :-(

I am against abortion being *used as birth control*!! You evidently are not.

As to adoption, I am one of millions of married women who had wanted to adopt a baby, but they are almost never available (in the U.S.) to adopt BECAUSE the young unmarried girls and women get WELFARE to *keep the babies* instead of making adoption plans for them!!

That government SUBSIDY of dependency upon *government* as "DADDY" is the REAL problem!! I KNOW--my husband and I have been licensed foster parents, through the state.

You wanted to adopt? My cousin is a foster parent who has been able to adopt plenty of children. A women has a right to control her own body. CTPati, whom I have debated before, is most inerested in defending the system no matter what. Her biggest worry is that her stocks and bonds will become worthless pieces of paper. She want to take children away from their parents so that they can be placed in orphanages. For her this is the most economical way to bring up working class children since our only porpose in life is to feed parisites like herself.

Many might consider Monica "odd," as in not standing on principle--the principle that LIFE is sacred--or having situational ethics.

Do you believe in honesty for you, but it's okay for others to lie and steal? Do you believe in faithfulness to your husband, but it's okay for him to "get some" on the side?

These protesters with the graphic splattered baby parts posters are most definitely a public nuisance. I have to drive by them in the mornings to get my daughters to summer camp/daycare. I think they are highly innapropriate and too graphic for young children to be exposed to. It is now my choice to take another route to avoid these ODD people. I also don't appreciate the idiot driving the service truck with the posters on it going 5 miles per hour down Wisteria Drive blocking and delaying traffic.

Before it was safe and legal it was unsafe and illegal for working class women. Those with money needed only to go to another country for a safe abortion. If you couldn't afford Pan Am there was a back alley abortionist. Just like gambling and drugs. If it isn't legal than there is the black market. In fact some women still end up in the back alley because of the cost or lack of an legal abortion provider in their area. They have been successful because they have been chipping away at abortion rights while the AFL-CIO leadership has refused to fight for the working class as a whole. Their goal is to require women to become baby factories. So do not expect them to stop with abortions because they could care less if a women dies. After all she will get their pie in the sky. If they succeed next it will be birth control methods and then the equal pay for equal work concept. These "Wrong to Lifers" use intimidation, murder, and big mouths like Bill O'Reily for their cause. Many Doctors won't preform abortions because they know that they can become a target of domestic terrorism. Like Bill O'Riely's characterization of Dr. Tiller as "Tiller the killer." Dr. Tiller was assassinated outside of his Church on a Sunday morning. It was the second attempt. The first assassination attempt only wounded him. He wore a button that said,"Trust Women".

I am appalled as well. The law permits abortion and that should be respected. It is a personal choice and we should be lucky to have choices. There are many reasons that people choose to have an abortion, some well outside of their control, but it is their choice, that is the great thing about out country, we get to choose!

I refuse to drive this road because of the inflammatory and provocative photos that are posted up and down the road. As mentioned by someone else I drove down this road with my children and had to ask them to look away as we discussed what was there.

The overtones and comments about women going on welfare to have kids is absurd,. Honestly, do you believe the trash you spew. I love those who are "moral and spiritual" people who are intolerant and overtly aggressive towards those with differing opinions.

While I am not for abortion, I am for people making their own decisions about their bodies.

Once again a group of people are outside on Wisteria employing scare tactics with graphical posts and "frightening" signs. It is sickening to see school age kids there clinging to bloody posts and their brain-dead parents, skipping school and having even less information about what is there here to do…But, really…by all means, people go protests, but for goodness sake please keep those awesome posters in your homes on your walls and not outside where my children can see them !!
Is there anything that can be done on legislative level to allow people to have a morning drive to work without being subjected to this ??

Truth is those posters are appalling, and I don't even think that is the best way to reach people. It turns people off. But if you consider for just a second that those are real babies who can feel pain (after 20 weeks - the type of abortions dr. Carhart does in gtown) then it may be easier to understand why people feel
compelled to show them. As for unwanted children, I think it's fair for the child to have a say in whether he or she wants to live or die-- do I want to be brutally injected with a lethal drug to stop my heart and dismembered when I can feel the pain or do I want to live even if it may not be an easy life? If you ask that question to an adult, we will most likely go with life over being dismembered, even if we won't feel loved at times. And yes, a woman's body holds the baby, but does that make it only her choice? Why should one life and one woman's choice completely trump another life (who will also possibly grow up to be a woman)? These questions should haunt us, because this isn't just about politics or a theoretical debate, this is about life or death for a person, and oftentimes that death is painful.

The reason a womens life trumps the life of a fetus is because a fetus is not a person yet but the women is. Having an abortion is a decision that only a women should make in consultation with her Doctor. Its a decision that should belong exclusively to her not a priest, policeman, judge, husband, father, or brother.

They are going after this right like other rights because the world capitalist system is in crisis. More and more the capitalists demand that workers do as told and work under any conditions and pay as their employer sees fit.