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Comments :: House beats abortion rules veto, falls short on voter IDs

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Are they going to make the women participate? Does she have to look at the monitor? Or just waste the money and go through the procedure even though most have made their mind ip for themselves already? I thought we were going for personal responsibility and limited governemnt? GOP? What happened you hypocritical government loving failures.

I find it funny that the same party that complains about social healthcare and welfare is advocating both in this bill. NC_interest -- Yeah Republicans usually contridict themselves in their beliefs... This is a sad day for women. Our reproductive rights are swiftly going away. If my daughter becomes PG before she is ready- We're going to VA for an abortion.

It remains a mystery to me that the government can require me to do all that they do--wear a seat belt-not smoke-but it is invasive to tell a woman that she must have an ultrasound and wait for 24 hours before killing a baby.No wonder this nation is in the shape that it is in--we have people with no common sense running it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! confusedinnc

dwntwnboy - I'm not so sure there would be much outrage. If we don't care enough now to protect the process against fraud, then would we really care if the process was taken out of our hands? 6 of one....

why would you not want someone to have to present their ID to vote??

With no ID required to vote, just load up anybody and let them vote. Just to get you way right or wrong

Why do you have such anger and vitriolic hate for people of faith? I'm trying to understand why you think you hold the key to TRUTH, and the rest of the estimated 6 billion people on the planet are "a bunch of brainwashed indoctrinated sheep".

Im searching for truth. I dont blindly believe anything. So for me to believe in your God you must tell me EXACTLY what your God is a where your God came from. Is your God a human, a spirit, an alien, what? And if God created the earth and life who or what created God? If you cant answer I dont believe it.

"I think people who consider themselves Liberals would agree that a main tenet of their philosophy is to protect those among us who are least able to protect themselves. The unborn child, who is a person in his/her own right with a unique set of DNA different from both mother and father, is the least able to protect itself. Liberals are on the wrong side of this debate. Preserving human life would seem to be more of a Liberal's issue, rather than that of a Conservative."

There is no such thing as an unborn child! I don't care if it has two arms, two legs blue eyes, blond hair and is wearing a morning coat it's NOT an unborn child, it's a FETUS! having an abortion is no more murdering an unborn child than having a haircut is murdering hair or having a tooth pulled is murdering the tooth. I'm getting mighty tired of all the mealy mouth blathering about the rights of a blob of tissue. A fetus becomes a child at birth, before birth it's scrapple.

"on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

It is very difficult to teach a child a new trick. It says "on account of..." There are so many reasons NOT covered by this statement. How about address, citizenship, criminals, the mentally ill, the list is endless. There is a big difference between protection of a 'right' and protection against 'discrimination'. The constitution is very clear about rights, and it protects them unconditionally. Check the part about free speech, or freedom of religion. I am really sorry your school let you down, but I don't have time to be a teacher.

There have been too many amendments to the Constitution, which has resulted in Americans working for the government rather than the government working for Americans. The Constitution is not a living entity, subject to societal changes as liberals insist it is. The Constitution does not guarantee a person the right to vote. It allows the People the right to elect representatives and there are amendments that clarify who the People are. That's a states' right issue. In some states, people who are mentally incompetent or felons serving time in prison do not have the right to vote. The 26th Amendment says that one must be 18 years old in order to vote, but states could lower that age if they wanted.

I would like to see a competency test that every voter must pass before they can vote and effect the way our nation is governed. It's obvious from the last Presidential election that the majority of voters decided on race rather than qualifications, and we see the results of that.

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