Comments on: House of Representatives Blocks Passage of Preventing Child Marriage Bill

By: paige cope

paige cope — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:38:18 +0000

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By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:37:52 +0000

Please tell me Melanie how it is we're going to help these girls without spending a dime?

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:47:56 +0000

Katherine, despite huge misconceptions about the bill, it had no extra funds attached to it.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:21:41 +0000

There is so much evil in the world. I wish the US was capable of fixing everything, but we just aren’t. There are people we need to worry about in our home country before we can consider helping other countries, especially when there is huge financial responsibility.

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:44:16 +0000

oh now thats just fucked up. Those girls shouldnt be married, having sex, or be pregnant in the first fucking place! They deserve the right to an abortion!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:20:43 +0000

I'm confused…how does preventing child marriage have anything to do with abortion? The two things are two separate issues in my mind. Perhaps someone just needs to "knock" some sense into these people (I don't mean using violent force).

By: phoebe

phoebe — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:53:34 +0000

what, their issue to stop health care reform?? to give tax breaks to the wealthy saying it will fix the economy? ha ha. That is mature, "we will block any bills that come up until our issues are addressed" It is about their issues and not the economy-don't be fooled.

By: Spazmoosifer

Spazmoosifer — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:14:14 +0000

Realize too that this is not to say that the bill won't be passed in the future. The republicans stated after the election that they were going to push to make sure that specific issues (mostly related to US financial problems) would be addressed before even taking a look at other issues, to the point where they would block any bills that came up until those issues were addressed.

Is this necessarily what happened? Perhaps, or perhaps it was a push from the anti-abortion side of the government. Either way, I do agree that the US politicians should be fixing things at home before focusing on international issues of which they have no real direct control over.