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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 09:38 PM
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How long before today's teenage girls and young women of
childbearing age realize that they are hosed by the slightly older generations before them that don't remember how it was before Roe v. Wade? Those that didn't bother with counterprotesting outside the clinics, never supported NARAL, or never gave a thought to their access to birth control, rights brought to them by pain and sweat of older women?

I was in high school and a virgin when Roe v. Wade was decided, and I knew it for my own good that I had new options available to me and my future, thanks to the hard work of women 5-70 years my senior.

I have real concerns that very young women "don't get it," and won't until they want birth control or need an abortion.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 09:40 PM
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1. About 40 years since Roe vs. Wade
Edited on Tue Jul-19-05 09:40 PM by wtmusic
or the time differential between Vietnam and Iraq
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 09:43 PM
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2. I've always said
any woman of childbearing age that opposes abortion is a fool. I don't know why anyone would be in favor of restricting their own rights.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 09:45 PM
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3. I think it's the apathy that bothers me as much as them being anti-choice.
Edited on Tue Jul-19-05 09:45 PM by Ilsa
I wonder if they don't take it all for granted that it won't or can't revert back to the way it was.
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