The gender card again...

[catsnknots]

Sorry to interrupt your no politics idea  but I still find the subject important and want to rant... 

How dare Gillard make abortion an election issue... There is no way that is acceptable and to even suggest that the Coalition will remove your right to one is scare mongering to the max. 

In this modern day time it is incredibly important that we don't use these topics to inflame a false war. 

Even if a person in any party did not like the idea of abortion there is no way that they would get the support to make it illegal. Or limit your access to one... or even make you feel bad for having one. 

So if Gillard wants to launch a campaign called "Labor Women for Gillard" then fine... but don't pull out the gender card and make something out of nothing.. 

And personally I find it sexist to have a women's only group calling for women to support Gillard. 

I have two sons and I also want their future to be positive and not forgotten but it seems that this PM only want to think of the future of women. 

[*notatroll]

Not this time. just an observation on that still photo.

Politicians are what they are but I still find it distasteful when their cynicism is so apparent and naked so to speak.

[poddster]

Gillard 'energised' by Labor fight ahead

As Labor leadership tension simmers, Julia Gillard is relishing the electoral battle ahead, saying she is not daunted but 'energised'.

[*notatroll]

I think the whole lot of them are a useless bunch of frauds whose vision for Australia extends no further than the view from their post-political-office corporate board rooms and the sight of their govt superannuation pension.

I'm not jaded, I'm a realist.

[silverfaun]

The Drum last night saw this stunt & called it. They said Gillard is wrong in going this way.

 Looks like a stunt, smells like a wedge, divisive politics, they said. 

I was amazed she would even copy the Women for Obama stunt & to bring in Abortion & gender, well I was laughing out loud it was so transparent.

Watch this die on the vine like all her other proclamations.

Somebody must have thought it was a good idea, who?? oh that's right, Macca, he went to America to observe the Obama election on our dollar.

She looked stupid, sounded even more desperate & nobody believes her anyway, she's an embarrassing joke now.

[silverfaun]

Another day another misstep, what's new? nothing,  still the same of divisive politics from a desperate PM.

The latest speech infuriated Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop, who said Ms Gillard was a "desperate prime minister leading a bitterly divided party, resorting to the base politics of fear and division".

"The Prime Minister should be governing for all Australians, not trying to divide as a distraction from her political woes," Ms Bishop said. "We are a better nation than this and Australia deserves better leadership."

Ms Bishop said Ms Gillard "knows full well that the Coalition will not change the laws regarding abortion, and for her to raise this as an election issue is offensive and she should apologise for her false claims".

Ms Bishop said she suspected Ms Gillard's comments on the blue ties were directed more at Kevin Rudd than at the Coalition "because the Coalition has a female deputy".

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-fires-abortion-salvo-in-gender-war/st...

[catsnknots]

 The point is it is not just a walk in walk out procedure. People must be "counselled" first and see doctors (obviously). It is not legal in all states. It is still looked down upon.  Women are still made feel guilty for making the choice.

Considering that this procedure can kill women I think that it should never be a walk in walk out procedure. 

You hormones will go all over the place and can leave women feeling very bad.... for a very long time. Ever had a miscarriage??? 

It is not looked down upon, it is a medical procedure that needs to be very carefully considered. Woman also need to know all options and know that there is support for them. 

The people that make someone feel guilty for having one are not the medical or political people, it is family, friends, partners and strangers that feel they have a right to comment. 

[izabsmiling]

I don't think he has your view Cats Back ?

Then he said: “The problem with the contemporary Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience… To a pregnant 14-year-old struggling to grasp what’s happening, a senior student with a whole life mapped out or a mother already failing to cope under difficult circumstances, abortion is the easy way out.”

Then there was this rather arresting line, “When it comes to lobbying local politicians, there seems to be far more interest in the treatment of boat people, which is not morally black and white, than in the question of abortion which is.”

http://theconversation.com/ru486-hits-abbott-again-13777

[izabsmiling]

he said abortion is black and white 

[izabsmiling]

The people that make someone feel guilty for having one are not the medical or political people, it is family, friends, partners and strangers that feel they have a right to comment. 

and people like Tony Abbott who say and believe that abortion is morally black and white ?

[freakiness]

 "With eight Catholics now in the Howard Cabinet, he was certainly wrong there. This Government’s decisions to: overturn the Northern Territory’s euthanasia law, ban gay marriage, stop the ACT heroin trial, provide additional financial support for one-income families, and try to reduce abortion numbers through pregnancy support counselling show that the tide of secular humanism was not as irreversible as he thought either."