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This is being posted all over the interwebs - I just want to draw attention to something within his statement that isn't being addressed.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Napoli says most abortions are performed for what he calls "convenience." He insists that exceptions can be made for rape or incest under the provision that protects the mother's life. I
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I've already sent a donation to planned parenthood in South Dakota and I plan to volunteer at the PP in my area. This crap has gotten my activist ass IN GEAR.
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These are hanging in DC.
It's all happening so quickly. I mean they have planned this for 32 years - but the speed at which the dominoes are falling now takes my breath away.
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I'm really hoping against hope that this full-bore-ban scenario is going to backfire on the fundamentalists. They would have gotten much further with their agenda if they put in provisions for rape and incest. Even dubya doesn't approve of the total ban, and that's saying a lot.
I think that the case will reach the supreme court and the challenge to it is very real - it will be difficult in its current incarnation to be found legal, even with the court stacked as it is. There are still 5 justices that have pro-choice sentiment, so I'm hoping that the ban goes down in flames and roe v. wade is re-affirmed.
Either way, it's a scary time for women and choice.
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At that point R v W doesn't matter - women still have a right to privacy - as do the contents of their uterus.
With this state stuff going down the same way slavery did - I don't think we will loose the right FOREVER or anything - but lots more women will be bleeding.
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http://www.secondlookproject.org/posters/
I don't even know what to say.
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But whatever. They don't base their propaganda on facts. Just half information and shocking statements.
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yay, i can't wait to move to the US of A!
i'll never forget the first time i saw anti-choice billboards, although i forget what state. (i've never in my life seen them in canada, although i'm sure they exist here..)
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Good to know!
And here I have been calling myself a victim for years - when in fact the events in my past I categorized as assault were actually just non-consensual baby making opportunity.
Sweet.
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(barf barf biblebarf)
:Wow.
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Then daddy will let her free.
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They are violent and cry a lot.
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*sneaks up behind you*
You may want to be aware of your surroundings little cell cluster.
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