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backtoblue

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4. Reproductive rights should be non negotiable.
Fri Jan 13, 2012, 02:38 PM
Jan 2012

Last edited Tue Jan 17, 2012, 10:04 AM - Edit history (1)

Who appointed anyone to bargain women's reproductive rights with anyone else?
---good question!


Certain rights that we already have (and ones we're still fighting for) are non negotiable. Period. Our representatives either don't care that much about women's rights or simply don't want to get their sleeves dirty fighting for us.

By bargaining away these rights (one by one), they are systematically dismantling Roe v. Wade and all other feminist movements.

Women are more than mere sex objects made for breeding. With so much poverty, war, disease, and social unrest you would think that these people had more pressing and meaningful things to occupy their mouths/wallets with than attacking reproductive rights.
And - the people bargaining with our reproductive rights are no less at fault than those lobbying and pushing against those rights.

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Abortion, as always, is a huge bargaining chit. redqueen Jan 2012 #1
from what I gather from Pelosi backtoblue Jan 2012 #2
hooray, yes iverglas Jan 2012 #3
Reproductive rights should be non negotiable. backtoblue Jan 2012 #4
"There's something deeply off about it." CrispyQ Jan 2012 #5
anybody remember Beijing? iverglas Jan 2012 #6
They have no intention Sera_Bellum Jan 2012 #7
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