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In reply to the discussion: Plain talk about "the abortion issue": it is not now nor has it ever been about "saving babies". [View all]Walleye
(30,699 posts)12. It's not just control, they don't wanna have to compete with us for jobs and pay raises
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Plain talk about "the abortion issue": it is not now nor has it ever been about "saving babies". [View all]
Atticus
Jan 2023
OP
It's not just control, they don't wanna have to compete with us for jobs and pay raises
Walleye
Jan 2023
#12
Of course it isn't. If it was really about the babies they'd care what happened to them
Ocelot II
Jan 2023
#5
re:"more about boosting white babies, preferably born into southern religious evangelical culture"
thesquanderer
Jan 2023
#17
It is, and always has been, about control. About their "property". How dare women
niyad
Jan 2023
#16
I think it's a mix. I think there are some for whom it genuinely is about saving babies, too. n/t
thesquanderer
Jan 2023
#18
For the real leaders of the anti-abortion movement saving babies is very low on the list
rurallib
Jan 2023
#33
Yes, more the followers than leaders.Prob the only leader who's in it for saving babies is the Pope.
thesquanderer
Jan 2023
#36
The best sign I've seen read "If you cut off my reproductive choices, can I cut off yours?"
OMGWTF
Jan 2023
#40
There are plenty of useful idiots protesting outside of clinics who believe that their presence on
WhiskeyGrinder
Jan 2023
#43