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jaxexpat

(7,794 posts)
16. The abortion issue has always had basic aspects: victims, heroes and villains.
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 10:08 AM
Sep 2024

Opponents have always sought to confuse the issue. Mostly by bringing in another contender, the fetus. Their objection to abortion has never addressed the realities of unwanted newborns, toddlers, preschoolers, pre-pubescent children or teens. That willful and harmful oversight renders their whole participation domestic terrorism, over-reach and meddling. They're squarely in the villain column.

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about that same time my dtrs 15 yr old friend confided in me she was pregnant.......my husband and i samnsara Sep 2024 #1
I can imagine how much it meant to her Easterncedar Sep 2024 #3
Good sister Easterncedar Sep 2024 #2
For some reason, I assumed no_hypocrisy was being a good brother. :-) TheRickles Sep 2024 #8
Showing my sister bias, I guess! Easterncedar Sep 2024 #15
Wonderful & loving sister Quakerfriend Sep 2024 #4
The family scapegoat is always the helper. Clouds Passing Sep 2024 #5
indeed. AllaN01Bear Sep 2024 #6
Yup a lot of women I have known have had abortions Farmer-Rick Sep 2024 #7
The abortion issue has always had basic aspects: victims, heroes and villains. jaxexpat Sep 2024 #16
Strong research it has helped to gradually lower crime rates IbogaProject Sep 2024 #17
Thank you Wild blueberry Sep 2024 #9
I've known several women who had abortions . . . SarcasticSatyr Sep 2024 #10
About 70/71 my sister (19/20) became pregnant through a date rape. Pre Roe... ms liberty Sep 2024 #11
I wonder if she regrets it because of religious indoctrination rainin Sep 2024 #13
No, she regretted it because she always wanted kids, even at that age then. ms liberty Sep 2024 #14
In 82 my best friend in High School got pregnant. MLAA Sep 2024 #12
Makes me wonder about all these men who were part of the problem-never a word about them Stargazer99 Sep 2024 #18
Did i write this? BayouBlue53 Oct 24 #19
Welcome to DU radical noodle Oct 24 #20
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