tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post1555892461180638551..comments2023-08-03T06:26:45.186-04:00Comments on Terroni: For the undecidedTerronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11737715891767920516noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-32968816633148731552008-09-24T10:11:00.000-04:002008-09-24T10:11:00.000-04:00PS My husband is a doctor who favors access to he...PS My husband is a doctor who favors access to health care for everyone. I am a nurse and community health advocate. We have served on medical teams in Honduras and in our back yard. He runs a camp for kids with skin disease every year completely staffed by volunteers (he is a dermatologist). He has never been motivated by the dollar, the fact that he earns a healthy living (salaried at an HMO Medical Center) means we have more to give away.www.kathypride.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06710159997445577661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-26683074489337968242008-09-24T10:08:00.000-04:002008-09-24T10:08:00.000-04:00Hi,Jumped over to your blog from Matthew Paul Turn...Hi,Jumped over to your blog from Matthew Paul Turner's blog. First, great photos of the Union Square Farmer's Market. I grew up on the upper West Side and my eighty year old dad still teaches at FIT.<BR/>Anyway, I agree with your so well articulated post about abortion. I could scream about the masses I speak to who are voting on the abortion issue and feel that that is the only choice they have. I serve as the Outreach and Missions Director at the church I worship at (Community Mennonite Fellowship in Milton, PA) I live in a hotbed of far right boxed in thinking...I finally had it with the anti Obama mail that was hitting my inbox and had to speak up. There was something terribly wrong if others were sending me that garbage thinking I was sympathetic to it. Believe me, living where I live, you don't enter into decisions like this likely, but I am a New Yorker after all, and more so a Christian, and as a follower of Christ, I had to speak up. Truth a and integrity mattered more.<BR/>I was at an outreach focused lunch yesterday where a couple of us tiptoed around the issue of politics and I said I was a pro life Obama supporter, and I can't tell you how many people looked at me like I had three heads.<BR/>Unfortunatley in 1978 I had an abortion. But God also used that expereince for healing. I have an adopted daughter whose birthday is the same day as my abortion and then I found out the father of the unborn child also has a daughter born the same day. It is a story I wrote that has been published several times, most recently in Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul. I have been hanging out with Jesus only since 2001 when I threw away my theology of self sufficiency, realizing it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.<BR/>This post got long too...sorry and thanks at the same time. Come over and visit me at www.kathypride.com<BR/>Peace.www.kathypride.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06710159997445577661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-83398268758135080892008-09-23T17:12:00.000-04:002008-09-23T17:12:00.000-04:00I know lots of doctors who support universal healt...I know lots of doctors who support universal health care. I think when you step outside the wallet issue things change. Most doctors have seen the struggle many of their patients go through just to get routine care and any ER doctor can tell you how awful it is that too many people wait until they have to go to the ER before they seek treatment. Once you work in an ER, it hits you square in the face and you would have to be one selfish idiot to oppose universal health care.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05049511202014141182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-336951657533751382008-09-22T21:14:00.000-04:002008-09-22T21:14:00.000-04:00I agree with you, cw, that this must ultimately be...I agree with you, cw, that this must ultimately be a woman's choice--a safe, legal choice.Terronihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11737715891767920516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-50124453064390519652008-09-22T20:46:00.000-04:002008-09-22T20:46:00.000-04:00Unfortunately, the people who need to see this wil...Unfortunately, the people who need to see this will not. Obama has much saner positions on all the issues, it seems to me. I can't believe anyone is still arguing for an endless stay in the war, for instance. Or can't see the desperate need for universal health care. And as for abortion, I'm pro-choice because I believe women have to have the right to govern their own bodies. But it is indeed a complicated and difficult issue. I have deep sympathy for the discomfort with abortion, but a deeper fear of someone telling me that I must carry a pregnancy to term. I'm tuly thankful I never had to make that choice but feel it must be MONE to make.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-11971549846173065982008-09-22T14:30:00.000-04:002008-09-22T14:30:00.000-04:00Good programs proposed by Obama but too bad it all...Good programs proposed by Obama but too bad it all has to come from tax payers again and again.Neponset River Bridge Dighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075298141941291648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-43592315225870186402008-09-21T19:33:00.000-04:002008-09-21T19:33:00.000-04:00Roni, check out this study!!!http://www.catholicsi...Roni, check out this study!!!<BR/><BR/>http://www.catholicsinalliance.org/files/CACG_Final.pdf<BR/><BR/>Fascinating.Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07276000726366302069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-54422014397300865252008-09-21T18:09:00.000-04:002008-09-21T18:09:00.000-04:00Ah man, did the media spin it that way AGAIN? Dan...Ah man, did the media spin it that way AGAIN? Dangit!! There must have been some giant edits mid-sentence in the middle of my last comment that gave you that impression. ;)Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04018721209690768151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-5564936495358134452008-09-21T12:34:00.000-04:002008-09-21T12:34:00.000-04:00Shan, glad to hear you'll be voting Obama! That is...Shan, glad to hear you'll be voting Obama! That is what you just said, right? ;)<BR/><BR/>jw, I'm glad you're picking up what I'm putting down. <BR/><BR/>Candis, approbation is always nice...thanks.Terronihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11737715891767920516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-8297763460296780552008-09-21T12:19:00.000-04:002008-09-21T12:19:00.000-04:00Jaxon, most physicians I know don't look forward t...Jaxon, most physicians I know don't look forward to universal health care. It will take a chunk out of our already thinning wallets.Terronihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11737715891767920516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-27422068286573584782008-09-21T11:58:00.000-04:002008-09-21T11:58:00.000-04:00I don't know you, but I caught your link from Crun...I don't know you, but I caught your link from Crunchy Mom Christine's. Your handling of the abortion issue was superb. You captured the complexities and incongruities of the most vexing problem of the last two centuries. Beautifully done.<BR/>And not that you need my approbation, but I completely agree with your observations and solutions.<BR/><BR/>CandisCandishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15048710772876835877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-46708969156184993392008-09-21T08:55:00.000-04:002008-09-21T08:55:00.000-04:00"I think that we need to quit voting on this issue..."I think that we need to quit voting on this issue and start talking about this issue."<BR/><BR/>YES. It's a crime that this issue has become so politicized that even acknowledging anything that doesn't defend your position is considered "weakness." Ugh.j-dubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01769275321077401351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-18601480782384044482008-09-21T03:55:00.000-04:002008-09-21T03:55:00.000-04:00Did you see the Bunk study stating 2/3 of doctors ...Did you see the Bunk study stating 2/3 of doctors in America want National Health Care. The doctors who did this study also conducted one in 2002 and found that the majority of doctors did not want national health care, the problem with this is that the 2 question surveys drastically differ in there 2nd question. I found this article, <A HREF="http://jaajoe.com/Politics/Sixty-Per-Cent-of-Physicians-Surveyed-Oppose-Switching-to-a-National-Health-Care-Plan.html" REL="nofollow">60% of Physicians Surveyed Oppose Switching to a National Health Care Plan</A>, It's worth a read.Moses Gunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11958104929356191401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-80362414458867382972008-09-21T02:25:00.000-04:002008-09-21T02:25:00.000-04:00Yes. Exactly.Yes. Exactly.Susanleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14864319996180586857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-55852142707684302392008-09-21T01:26:00.000-04:002008-09-21T01:26:00.000-04:00Good job Terrones! I like the WAY you wrote that ...Good job Terrones! I like the WAY you wrote that anyway. I agree with some of it too! teehee<BR/>I enjoyed your walk around the big A earlier. sigh But dang it if it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to live there!Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04018721209690768151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337375229926186501.post-68662355772124587792008-09-21T01:04:00.000-04:002008-09-21T01:04:00.000-04:00There are a lot of issues I didn't talk about here...There are a lot of issues I didn't talk about here, mostly because this post was getting way to damn long. <BR/><BR/>But, in case you were wondering, I'm opposed to shooting wolves from planes. I think global warming is our fault. <BR/><BR/>Marriage is a state, not a federal, issue. And I think that any two adults who want to give it a whirl should be allowed. It's called the separation of church and state, baby.Terronihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11737715891767920516noreply@blogger.com