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So Lindsey Graham says abortion should be illegal bc it's not mentioned in the Constitution. I checked and he's right. But childbirth isn't mentioned either so I guess we need to ban that too
12:35 PM - Sep 7, 2018
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)Matter of fact, I don't recall seeing Lindsay Graham mentioned in the Constitution. He must be illegal too.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)All medical procedures, drugs, diagnostic equipment fall under the Graham rule of "not mentioned in the Constitution."
Let's go back to dying early and painfully as Graham's god intended.
maxsolomon
(33,284 posts)is not mentioned.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)at the time the Constitution was written...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10297561
"Abortion was frequently practiced in North America during the period from 1600 to 1900"
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/news/2013/08/08/71893/scarlet-letters-getting-the-history-of-abortion-and-contraception-right/
"...early American abortion law, where the procedure was legal until quickeningthe first time a mother feels the baby kick, which can happen anywhere from 14 weeks to 26 weeks into pregnancy.
Abortion was not just legalit was a safe, condoned, and practiced procedure in colonial America and common enough to appear in the legal and medical records of the period..."
"The earliest anti-abortion laws were intended to protect women from untrained abortionists. Records indicate abortions occurred unregulated during the 1800s..."
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)Added to my anti-winger toolbox!.......
Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)Thank you for the information.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)ToxMarz
(2,166 posts)I think that should be limited to only the ones you are born with.
Racerdog1
(808 posts)This tRump loving POS isn't mentioned either, ban this asshole.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)all rights held by Americans, but as a Trumpass groveler, he snidely makes a stupid ass remark like this.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)of Americans that would accept Graham's statement as fact. This disease of ignorance must be reversed, or else we're all screwed.
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rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Too many willfully ignorant people out there
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)they wouldn't need artificial conception.