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Showing Original Post only (View all)Have I got this straight? Some of the very same people who say the government has no [View all]
right to make them vaccinate their children think the government absolutely has the right to make a woman carry an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy to full term?
Surely, I'm mistaken.
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Have I got this straight? Some of the very same people who say the government has no [View all]
Atticus
May 2019
OP
It puts ONE life in danger, a life that is completely dependent upon the mother
StarfishSaver
May 2019
#11
The same people who are restricting abortion pass laws against birth control.
Blue_true
May 2019
#16
To which I respond that in 45 years, I would estimate that my wife and I
Fortinbras Armstrong
May 2019
#57
The existence of the fetus is sustained by the body of the woman carrying it.
Blue_true
May 2019
#21
The people who want to outlaw abortion have a "definition" of life based upon their
smirkymonkey
May 2019
#50
I think the critical and relevant difference between the two is "collective good" vs. idiocy.
LanternWaste
May 2019
#44
I'll take full responsibility for what I said, but not for your ability to understand it.
hughee99
May 2019
#67
They want to force women to have babies they can't afford or that will have tragic
Blue_true
May 2019
#23
Right now tRump is doing Saudi bidding by saber-rattling with Iran. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2019
#40
An abortion does not endanger any other person than the woman. Anti-vax is a public danger.
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2019
#39
The same people who rant 'freedom of religion' want the gov't to teach religion in the schools rathe
keithbvadu2
May 2019
#42