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In reply to the discussion: Abortion actually is becoming RARE. Jailing women for "suspicious miscarriages" is trending. Coincidence? [View all]nashville_brook
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Abortion actually is becoming RARE. Jailing women for "suspicious miscarriages" is trending. Coincidence? [View all]
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
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i think that people believe we have full rights on this b/c Roe still exists
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#6
we're let down all too often on matters concerning women's rights by fellow DUers
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#14
lip service = passing laws with no enforcement mechanism + claim victory
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#38
YES TO THIS --> "invented contempt for women's health to keep us from ruling the world"
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#34
i've been an activist on this issue since high school, and it wasn't until that thread
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#18
true this. we have to deal with individual states and the supreme crt. that is a MUST.
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#21
The gop War on Women rolls on like a tidal wave bulldozing everything in its path.
Dont call me Shirley
Apr 2015
#24
We have got to recognize their millennia-old games and refuse to play.
Dont call me Shirley
Apr 2015
#83
mobilize and persuade -- get ppl to the polls by actually standing up for us
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#73
What the hell are you aiming. If you are talking about Hillary calling abortions "rare" and you
Thinkingabout
Apr 2015
#39
the language of the "rare" abortion is counter-productive per the reasons i set out.
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#40
I am glad to hear there are Hillary supporters. Hillary is not advocating for RW states to make
Thinkingabout
Apr 2015
#53
this isn't an anti-Hillary sentiment or thread...there's PLENTY of those.
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#55
RE Hillary -- here's what i published earlier today. does this sound anti-HRC?
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#69
i'd also like back surgery to be rare...but that doesn't imply moral hazard
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#50
There isn't any comparsion of back surgery and pregnancy. Can a woman who isn't pregnant get an
Thinkingabout
Apr 2015
#58
so you just refuse to accept there's a value judgement in the "rare" abortion.
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#61
You have this turned around and upside down. I accept making abortions rare, a no pregnancy does
Thinkingabout
Apr 2015
#62
And abortions are in order for these cases. Look I sorta understand ther are "accidents" ergo
Thinkingabout
Apr 2015
#65
Then you just may be wrong headed if you think Hillary was not talking about birth
Thinkingabout
Apr 2015
#56
so, if women just stopped getting knocked up we wouldn't be having this discussion.
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#57
well, that's what's implied in the moral hazard of the "rare" abortion. own it.
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#60
just this week Oregon DEMOCRATS (super-majority, btw) killed a bill to expand abortion rights.
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#52
this is exactly what i'm talking about -- it's our job to provide political cover.
nashville_brook
Apr 2015
#78
I think it totally sucks that not very many self-identified males HERE AT DU
bullwinkle428
Apr 2015
#85