Pro-Choicers, Gay Supporters Rally at Courthouse

Sounds like you have a passion that information and support is available to those kids and families who face life-changing decisions, AShaw -- a range of options, if you will.

Perhaps you will be moved to break out your checkbook and support a non-profit organization whose stated goals are to:

"... to actively promote family planning and healthy, responsible reproductive and sexual behavior through the provision of high-quality, comprehensive, educational, counseling, medical, and referral services.

"We support the availability of these services, particularly to individuals whose access to other sources of help is limited.

"We promote public understanding, acceptance and support for reproductive choice and family planning services.

"We also promote public understanding of global problems that stem from population pressures and encourage support of programs working toward solutions to these problems. "

Their objectives are a perfect fit with the choice-centered ideas in your post.

You should send your donation to:

Planned Parenthood, Santa Barbara,
https://dnbweb1.blackbaud.com/OPXDONATE/...

The article misquoted me slightly. Actually, what I said was that the League of Women Voters had consistently opposed measures like Props. 4 and 8. In 2000, voters did approve Proposition 22, which was overturned by a state Supreme Court decision in May of this year.

Both of these propositions threaten basic constitutional rights. Regardless of your personal feelings about either of these issues, it is wrong to use the ballot box to change fundamental rights and freedoms.

Abortion is murder. Any doubts? Let's see the pro-choicers try it on themselves. They won't, because they realize they are lying hypocrites. They wouldn't even take a cubic inch out of their own arms. Like Hitler, they are "pro-choice" only toward other people-- those 'others', as did Hitler, they selfishly deem to be unworthy. Hitler was pro-choice because he killed only the ones he chose, just like the abortion mill butchers do, but at least he killed fewer people than does Planned Parenthood. He also charged only the gold teeth he yanked out of his victims' jaws.
Homosexuality was useful to the human species when we were cave-dwellers and needed a non-reproducing set-aside of the surplus population, so as to not overgraze our food supply. However, for the last 8,000 years or so we have had agriculture to provide our food. Those of us who are no longer primitive hunter-gatherers realize homosexuality has long been ludicrously obsolete, and today has little significance other than being a vehicle to transmit AIDS, syphilis, fluoroquinolone-resistant gonorrhea, and whatever other pervert-friendly epidemic is coming down the pike next year.
Maybe Santa Barbara will someday progress beyond the degeneracies of Hitler and the ancestral troglodytes, but it is evident the failure-to-maintain-control element of human inadequacy will be around until evolution progresses further. Why is Santa Barbara so backward?

Ah, "RandyCrawford"'s comment is deserving of this:

Godwin's Law officially declared.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/Godwins-La...

There is so much wrong with that irrational rant that it does not merit responding.

However, I'd like to thank Randy Crawford for demonstrating so well why anti-discrimination laws are still so necessary and why we should all vote no on Prop's 4 and 8. .

Godwin's Law is a pretty good call, binky.

Devon, your note at the end of the piece seems to have the aim (pardon me if I'm wrong) of debunking claims made by speakers at the rally. I think it is entirely irrelevant to the core of the issue.

First, not all families are two-parent families. Many teens only have one parent or legal guardian.

Even if consent is required for only one parent in two-parent families, teens may not feel safe speaking to either of their parents about a pregnancy, let alone both. Several of the speakers alluded to this fact by mentioning that teens talk to other relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc.) --whether notification is made to one or both parents makes absolutely no difference in this case.

The bottom line, as several of the speakers pointed out, is that family communication cannot be mandated by law. To focus on comments about "both parents" is to miss the point.

Abortion is the ultimate in discrimination. It is the merciless killing of helpless humans precisely because they are helpless and human. Thus far America has killed millions more than either Hitler or Stalin. Proud of yourself, America?
Homosexuality is another form of discrimination, favoring the same gender over the alternative gender. Homosexuality is the futile inbreeding (without reproduction) of sameness, and is the opposite of the "diversity" its advocates hypocritically pretend to advocate. They succeed in specious peddling of sexual perversion only to the extent the intended audience is made up of gullible suckers.
Of course, those with lame arguments have better things to do than make them. Their feeble lies would show they have too much to lose.