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no_hypocrisy

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1. And this is why criminalizing abortion is NOT "states' rights".

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri May 17, 2024, 03:52 AM

May 2024

If state AGs are going to close their borders to keep pregnant women from escaping to get an abortion somewhere else (IF they can afford to travel, to leave work, to pay for the procedure), then the laws of Alabama (for example) bleed into blue states.

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