Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Saying Life Begins at Conception Is ‘Extreme and Radical’

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[Sub-Driver]

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Saying Life Begins at Conception Is ‘Extreme and Radical’ By Matt Cover November 3, 2011 Subscribe to Matt Cover's posts

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Thursday that for states to enact constitutional amendments that say human life begins at conception is “an extreme and radical step.”

“For the vast majority of Americans, including people on both sides of the abortion issue, this is an extreme and radical step,” she said.

Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Wasserman-Schultz said that so-called personhood amendments are a “divisive, dangerous, and destructive” attack on women.

“To American women, their reproductive health and choice is an intensely personal and private issue between themselves, their families, and their doctors,” the DNC chairwoman said. “But Republicans in Washington and across the country have tried to limit these rights, with their assault on Planned Parenthood in Congress and restrictive laws in the states being among several examples.”

“Now," she said, "the effort by the far right [is] to pass these so-called personhood amendments--divisive, dangerous, and destructive laws which would cripple a woman’s right to choose, limit access to birth control, and put the lives of women with difficult pregnancies at risk.”

Wasserman-Shultz called the personhood amendments being considered or petitioned for in Mississippi, Ohio, Texas, Kansas, and Florida “the most extreme assault on a woman’s right to choose.”

[Sub-Driver]

Mayonnaise hair.......

[wastedyears]

Has anybody actually asked these lunatics to defend and explain what they mean?

[PapaNew]

A lot of scientific (and obvious) fact might seem “extreme and radical.” The liberals try to reject the parts of reality they don’t like. However, God didn’t ask their permission when he set things up

[Mouton]

I think she was confused and was describing herself.

[relictele]

In addition to failing history, she also failed biology.

Her lexicon is as thin as a comic book.

[mitch5501]

"Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Wasserman-Schultz said that so-called personhood amendments are a “divisive, dangerous, and destructive” attack on women."

You want dangerous and destructive? Tell women that it's fine to murder their unborn children and see what happens.

[driftdiver]

I once had a very liberal boss. Somehow we started discussing this issue. She commented that there are too many people in the world anyway and she really didn’t care.

[fredhead]

That statement is to be expected, considering that DWS looks like death warmed over.

[Florida native]

She's not a true FLORIDIAN...she's still got that NYC mindset and ideology.

Deborah Wasserman-Schultz was born in Forest Hills, Queens, NYC. She was raised on Long Island.

Wasserman-Schultz received a BA degree in Political Science in 1988 and a MA degree with certificate in political campaigning in 1990..from the University of Florida.

[exDemMom]

I wonder, then, how she would scientifically explain the massive growth that occurs after conception, if life is not present.

The radical point of view, in my opinion, is the view that women are too stupid and incapable of controlling their own behavior, so that unless “smart” people like Schultz lie to them about pregnancy so they’ll be willing to have abortions, they’ll be baby machines. I’m sure the fact that abortion is very lucrative for unethical “doctors” and that Democrats can count on them for campaign contributions has nothing to do with Schultz’s inane comment.

[az.b1bbomberfxr]

PROVERBS 1:20-33
20 Wisdom shouts in the street, She [f]lifts her voice in the square; 21 At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings: 22 “How long, O [g]naive ones, will you love [h]being simple-minded? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge? 23 “Turn to my reproof, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. 24 “Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention; 25 And you neglected all my counsel And did not want my reproof; 26 I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes, 27 When your dread comes like a storm And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. 28 “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me, 29 Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD. 30 “They would not accept my counsel, They spurned all my reproof. 31 “So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own devices. 32 “For the waywardness of the [i]naive will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them. 33 “But he who listens to me shall [j]live securely And will be at ease from the dread of evil.”

[momtothree]

The article states essentially that abortion is an extremely private issue between a woman, her doctor and family... well, isn’t all planned murder? If a woman decides to have her husband killed for the insurance money (for example).... wouldn’t that issue be intense and private between herself and her hired killer? These people just boggle my mind.... it is a baby boy or a baby girl. It isn’t an “extremely private issue”. IMHO.

[Rumplemeyer]

That statement is to be expected, considering that DWS looks like death warmed over.

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I think death eating a cracker is a better description...

[matt04]

And that is on a good day.

[aruanan]

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Saying Life Begins at Conception Is ‘Extreme and Radical’

Debbie, be it ever so humble, the new individual starts at conception.

Awareness of its environment may not manifest itself until late in utero. But this is a natural process. Lack of awareness isn't sufficient to claim that an individual human isn't alive and worthy to keep his life or we could get away with killing people when they're unconscious or asleep.

Ability to speak doesn't happen until considerably later after birth, but this is part of the natural process. Lack of speaking ability isn't sufficient to claim that an individual human isn't alive and worthy to keep his life or we could get away with killing babies after they're born and before they can speak or killing stroke victims who don't make sense or killing foreigners because they can't speak our language.

The ability to communicate in a sensible, rational way doesn't really start making a consistent appearance until late childhood (or never, in the case of Democrats like Sheila Jackson Lee and a few others) but this is part of the natural process. Not making sense isn't sufficient to claim that an individual human isn't alive and worthy to keep his life or we could get away with killing all sorts of folk, including the immature, the brain-damaged, the insane, and socialist/communist/progressive morons.

Debbie, be it ever so humble, the individual human at the moment of conception is alive, is human, and, unlike you and the rest of your part, has not even started to make a national fool of itself or started to tear down its country or used the government to fund its personal schemes or employed racist and bigoted language to manipulate those of lesser or diminished intellectual ability to continue to vote Democrat.

[muir_redwoods]

I've never understood the dispute here; it's a tautology that life begins at the beginning. The veiled arguement is that it's okay to end a life after it begins and we should not be reminding the pro death people that they are engaged in s killing.

If NASA were to detect on a planet, the signs an obstetrician gets during an early prenatal exam, NASA would announce the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

[Tax-chick]

Dumb as a box of rocks, and evil, too.

[edpc]

Yeah, but if they had a test capable of detecting and treating a genetic disposition for the breast cancer she had while she was an ‘unviable tissue mass,’ I bet she wouldn’t think that was radical.

[ScottinVA]

Dumpy`s Gem of the Week!

I just love her “wisdom.” PLEASE, Dems... never let her leave her post as DNC chair!

[bert]

wassernan-shultz is redundant attention getter.

For her life has never begun and is not being lived. to whine and complain and perpetually be uncomfortable is not to live.

She is so uptight she shuns personal hygiene. her hair is a perpetual tangled mess and indicative of her slovenly ways..