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niyad

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Tue Apr 30, 2019, 01:46 PM Apr 2019

Margaret & Helen:Abortion is not a dirty word and Planned Parenthood isn't a McDonald's and the GOP [View all]


Margaret and Helen
Best Friends for Sixty Years and Counting…



Posted by: Helen Philpot | March 15, 2019
Abortion is not a dirty word and Planned Parenthood isn’t a McDonald’s and the GOP can go F**K itself

Margaret honey, nothing pisses me off more than when a man has an opinion about something he knows nothing about. And one thing for damn sure a man knows nothing about is what’s in a woman’s mind and heart when she is making a decision about whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. It’s called an abortion. It’s not a dirty word. It’s legal. It’s a woman’s right. It’s personal. A woman can choose to have one or not. And damn it, there is no such thing as a post-birth abortion unless you’re talking about the death penalty (which is a whole nother GOP lie).

The fact that the GOP has a talking point about post-birth abortions tells you all you need to know about how stupid the GOP is and how stupid they think voters are. If you can’t make your case with the truth then do you really have a case? There is indeed something called a late-term abortion. It’s not pretty. It’s not happy. It’s usually the last choice, but it is a choice a woman sometimes makes. And if you knew anything about why a woman might have to make that choice, you would be questioning your faith in God before you would be questioning the choice of that woman.

Contrary to what our asshat of a President and his confederacy of dunces think, women don’t pull up to a Planned Parenthood and order up an abortion like it’s a Big Mac. No one at Planned Parenthood takes our request for a pregnancy test and tries to upsize us to an abortion and some fries. Women make this decision with a great deal of thought, prayer and consultation with our loved ones and our doctors.

I am an old woman. I don’t like the f-word. I didn’t use that word until the orange asshat arrived. But on this topic, you bet your sweet ass I’ll use it. FUCK YOU GOP for continuing to politicize this deeply personal decision that should be left between a woman and her doctor. Get your lies out of our government and get your politics out of our vaginas. And while you are at it, why don’t you get those children at the border out of those cages. I mean it. Really.

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"confederacy of dunces" Ilsa Apr 2019 #1
personally, I think that insults dunces! niyad Apr 2019 #2
John Kennedy Toole's classic novel, based in New Orleans MadLinguist Apr 2019 #5
Thanks! Going on my reading list. NT Ilsa Apr 2019 #9
funniest misanthrope ever, and a real picture of New Orleans MadLinguist Apr 2019 #11
I have this book on audio and it is terrific HelenWheels May 2019 #24
I have worked as a Planned Parenthood escort, and I can assure you that any woman who walks into secondwind Apr 2019 #3
but. . .but. . . we are told that PP is basically an abortion mill. and here you go, talking niyad Apr 2019 #4
You mean the greedy doctors and nurses aren't twisting Ilsa Apr 2019 #10
Helen Philpot is my favorite old lady, ever. Long may she battle on. Hekate Apr 2019 #6
IF MEN.... davidmp Apr 2019 #7
+++!. And if they had to give birth through their totally inadequate canal erronis Apr 2019 #8
If men could get pregnant Mr.Bill Apr 2019 #14
If men could get pregnant, Haggis for Breakfast Apr 2019 #15
Some of the most TRUE paragraphs ever written. Ferrets are Cool Apr 2019 #12
Margaret and Helen are two of my sheroes. niyad May 2019 #28
Excellent. My 96 year old mother says the same thing: no male government folks need weigh in. LuckyLib Apr 2019 #13
or, as one of my friends, a VERY devout catholic, told a group of bishops, "why don't you niyad May 2019 #29
Unfortunately, a lot of voters ARE stupid. Caliman73 Apr 2019 #16
40% of women are anti-choice too. This isn't just a "men butting in" thing. MadDAsHell Apr 2019 #17
axtually, most of us realize that the anti-choice women are out there, because we have niyad May 2019 #30
Margaret and Helen are national treasures. Thanks niyad saidsimplesimon Apr 2019 #18
you are most welcome. those two are some of my favourite sheroes. niyad May 2019 #31
Margaret and Helen, thank you and might I add, very well stated. NotHardly Apr 2019 #19
Republicans are Pushing Us Backward to the Days of Women as Chattel dlk Apr 2019 #20
for decades, I thought we were one scotus vote from "The Handmaid's Tale". but the niyad May 2019 #32
Oh yeah baby -- SING IT SISTER Blue Owl Apr 2019 #21
I have a handicapped child born before Roe v Wade and I have had demigoddess Apr 2019 #22
Having a handicapped child is no picnic in the park HelenWheels May 2019 #25
What a wonderful witty woman UpInArms May 2019 #23
Abortion is not a dirty word...it's a woman's biology. mudstump May 2019 #26
This blog Ginger42 May 2019 #27
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