Hasselbeck Gets Hot -- and a Hug From Babwa

31. I don't agree with Elizabeth's opinion on this (or many other things) - it sounds too much like the Republican party line - but I have no problem with her expressing them. However, my opinion is that it is not the right of anyone to tell me that I must have a baby if that is not what I want. If Elizabeth doesn't want to use the morning after pill, fine. Don't use it!

With all the children and babies in this country in foster care, abandoned, abused, hungry or in other crisis, why aren't Pro-Lifer's worried about those children vs the potential life in MY body?

I am glad Barbara told Elizabeth to calm down, because Elizabeth was nearing Defcom 4 and we wouldd have had to head for the bomb shelters.

Posted at 4:17PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by EasyMac

32. Babs made the right call on this on...regardless of her opinion Lizbeth has to figure out a way to get her point across without looking like an irrational idiot. I personally don't care what women are doing with their bodies.

Posted at 4:20PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by angel

33. She doesnt give a damn about the people that are already here, kids floating down the street in New Orleans and lil kids being blown to pieces and slaughtered for no apparent or logical reason whatsoever, just the cells that havent even formed yet. She is an abomination and should be an embarassment to all women. What do they want next, control over my scrotum??? She wants republicans (only) to have jurisdiction over everyones falopian tubes as if they dont have more pressing issues on the table. If she'd mind her business and stay out of everyones bedroom, shed probably be able to stop having on-air spazms and form a coherent point of "view". And to think, I had a full head of hair this mornin, thanks Lizzie! Is it too late to bring back Star???

Posted at 4:23PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by view-shcmiew

34. I agree with SiliconSally - Elisabeth IS and idiot! I used to watch this show often, and now I almost never turn it on. Elisabeth is the primary reason I do not watch anymore.

Posted at 4:23PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Mar

35. There was absolutely no need for Babs to get so upset. Elisabeth was making her point of veiw known, then all of the sudden, Barbara started freaking out!! I've never seen her stop Joy when she gets out of control, which happens almost on a daily basis!!

Posted at 4:24PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Stacy

36. Wonderful America. Land of the free. Sure, freedom of speach - but only when it's politically correct and you and the media agree with it. Barbara is looking smaller and smaller lately. If anyone has lost control, it's her! But I'll still watch her (and Mel too).

Posted at 4:24PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Nancy

37. Am I seeing incorrectly that Joy does something with a peice of paper and folds it over. Next you see Elizabeth ripping it up. I wonder what it said.
"shut up, your next"

Posted at 4:27PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by melissa

38. The View is not a good forum for Elisabeth. She is unable to rationally or intelligently discuss many issues with the other ladies or guest hosts. She doesn't listen to anyone, just rants her opinion, always has to be right, and get the last word in. If she had half a brain, she'd be dangerous. Elisabeth should go back to finding less-expensive fashion to wear. Current events is not her forte, and as other posters have said, she cannot back up a lot of the statements she makes.

Posted at 4:30PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Lori

39. Elisabeth Hasselback is a conservative republican crazy BITCH! she should be kicked off the show! Her views are not only stupid but unnecessary and cruel. She has no right to say what she did about women getting raped. I am a rape survivor and if I had gotten pregnant I would not dare bring a child into this world and have to explain to them that their father is a rapist or worst yet in a case of incest that their father is also my father or uncle. She just proves that in today's society people are not open minded. She is a Bush supporter who deserves to be fired!

Posted at 4:32PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by GOSSIP-IN-MD

40. Help get Elisabeth off the VIEW

http://www.petitiononline.com/zdt45thd/petition.html

Posted at 4:45PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Kari

41. She has an opinion and voices it, which is admirable (and expected on a show of this format.)

However, she is not informed as to the function of this pill - it's not an abortion, it just works like a very strong birth control pill before there is even an embryo, let alone a fetus. Elisabeth's metaphor of tossing a baby into a dumpster is like comparing apples to oranges.

And I'd be really surprised if her supporters here don't use any kind of birth control themselves. too bad they're too busy thumping bibles to listen long enough to get the facts.

And by the way PJ, I'm a typical upper class white woman - you might want to check your assumptions about people, beeyatch.

Posted at 4:53PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Sarah

42. Like others here, I think Elisabeth's arguments are often misguided, but I feel she is being wrongly blamed here. She was no more vituperative today than many others have been on that show, and if Walters has such a problem with loudly voicing your opinion (no matter how offbase it may be) than she wouldn't have hired Rosie O'Donnell.

I find it ironic that many here who would probably proclaim freedom of speech loudly and chastise conservatives for blindly following a foolish leader seem to be blindly following the ideology that no one is entitled to an opinion unless it agrees with your own.

Posted at 5:02PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Karin

43. Elizabeth is pregnant and very hormonal............please let this be the excuse to get rid of her! They should have kept Debbie and let her grow........at least she knows how to laugh at herself!! Rosie will eat Elizabeth up!!!

Posted at 5:12PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Tamora

44. Elizabeth gets on my nervous so bad. She needs a life so bad. It must be nice to be married to a NFL player and never want for anything. One day the real world is going to bite her in the ass. I think that when gets pregnant with baby #2 she will not be asked to come back on the show. The View is going down hill fast. I give it 1 more year on the air.

Posted at 5:15PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Beth

45. Concerning the logic used by Laura (#23) that although she personally could not have an abortion, she has no right to say that others could not--this same logic could be applied, only substituting the word "slavery" for abortion. After all, at one time slavery was legal in this country, but that did not make it right. We are endowed with certain rights by our Creator, not by the laws of the land. Not all laws are just.

To Cupcake (#24)--no, everytime you have a period (shedding of unfertilized egg and uterine lining) you are not having an abortion. One would think common sense would tell you that.

The truth: the morning after pill works twofold. It inhibits ovulation (so an egg is not released to be fertilized), and as a back up measure, if an egg IS released and fertilized, it irritates the uterine lining so that implantation of the embryo is not allowed. Biological fact: every one of us began our lives at the point of fertilization (conception), and our lives have been on a contiuum since then until our deaths. A human embryo is 100% human--can't become anything but a more mature human further along that continuum, and all the semantics in the world won't change the fact that it's a human. Our society has conditioned us to use euphemisms rather than call it what it is, which makes it much easier to devalue an entire class of human beings. Why do women who miscarry grieve over their loss? Because they knew they were carrying a baby. A child does not incur value simply because it is wanted and longed for--it's given value by its Creator from the moment it came into being. Abortion is simply denying the truth, that all of us are human and measureless in value, even the ones who aren't wanted.

Good for you, Elisabeth.

Posted at 5:16PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Ella