The anti-choice Neocons' Iraq war really hell on the pre-born!

[liberalitch]

This WAPO article supports it:

SNIP: "...Giving birth is painful enough as it is. In war-torn Iraq, it's also becoming more dangerous.

Spontaneous road closures, curfews and gun battles make even getting to the hospital a challenge for expectant mothers. Once they arrive, the women have no guarantee that they will receive adequate health care from a qualified physician.

"It's spiraling downward. It's getting worse each day," said Annees Sadik, an anesthesiologist at al-Jarrah....."

SNIP: "....Hospitals lack the equipment, drugs and medical expertise to make labor easier or to handle complications.

Women are forgoing prenatal visits to doctors as a result. Fearful of going into labor during the nighttime curfew, they are having elective Caesarean sections. Others are relying on midwives in their neighborhoods.

Doctors, especially women, have been targeted by unknown groups for kidnapping and murder. The kidnappers often appear to be motivated by money, seizing professionals because they are among the wealthiest people in Iraq. But many Iraqis also say that insurgents are waging a campaign to eliminate the people with the skills most needed to rebuild Iraq.

As is often the case in Iraq, where bombs usually kill civilians rather than their intended targets, the death of Ibrahim's son was a matter of bad timing...."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301666.html?sub=AR


I guess the only babies that matter are little white, christian babies......

[Jackpine Radical]

1. A couple of thoughts--

First, I don't think the Neocons give a shit about abortion one way or the other. They only use the issue to manipulate & fire up the Fundies. Plain old Straussian deception that permits them, with their superior understanding of What Should Be, to retain power.

Second, the fundies are interested only in the unborn, not in the born. If the brat dies in the birthing process, that's not a problem, as long as it wasn't an abortion. This much is clear and obvious from their rejection of "socialized medicine" and infant and childcare initiatives for the poor.

[liberalitch]

2. Still... they support a war that claims the lives of unborn.....

While fighting to deny American women a choice..... they deprive Iraqi women of the opportunity to be mothers in a safe environment.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. If a pregnant Iraqi woman gets herself blown up by one of our bombs,

that's God's will. If she gets an abortion, that's a sin. Don't expect logical consistency from these people. If they didn't have cognitive dissonance they wouldn't have cognition at all.