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In reply to the discussion: When I think about the probable fate of Roe v Wade, my blood boils! [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)46. I've lost my tolerance for hypocrites and
people so lacking in insight that they have no idea what they've done. I'm tired of being afraid. It could have been so incredibly different. It's trauma from 2016, no doubt. I don't trust people who claim goals and values to vote them.
As for Roe v. Wade, we still have a chance. Trump's blabbed that he chose Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to criminalize abortion and said that women "will have to be punished." If people learn enough that Collins and Murkowski's can't maintain "plausible deniability" that they know what is intended...
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When I think about the probable fate of Roe v Wade, my blood boils! [View all]
CaliforniaPeggy
Sep 2018
OP
From a sign at the Women's March: "If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!" nt
Atticus
Sep 2018
#1
The underground clinics are stocking up on pills even as you speak. There have been
Nay
Sep 2018
#62
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, I think that all men who impregnate women should have
smirkymonkey
Sep 2018
#20
The hypocrisy is that many of these men will make sure their women have access to abortion.....
ProudMNDemocrat
Sep 2018
#51
As we now know, there's nothing in the constitution that affects the male body ! ;)
OnDoutside
Sep 2018
#24
Aw, thank you! I know it's rare for me to post like this. This topic is close to my heart.
CaliforniaPeggy
Sep 2018
#25
I was unaware of this amendment and the arguments that go with it. Thank you for your post.
CaliforniaPeggy
Sep 2018
#27
It costs them nothing, lets them feel morally superior, allows them to slut shame
catbyte
Sep 2018
#31
I don't think it would be quite that fast. Unless the fix is already in.
CaliforniaPeggy
Sep 2018
#44
When the number of Kowalskis in the Warszawa phone book outnumber the ones in Chicago
DFW
Sep 2018
#48
Honestly, have republicans thought about the societal costs of outlawing abortion?
smirkymonkey
Sep 2018
#57