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StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
Wed May 15, 2019, 10:30 PM May 2019

I won't ever need an abortion but I fight like hell to protect other women's right to choose

I wish more people were as willing to fight for rights that others deserve and desperately need even when those rights don't personally benefit them.

If they were, we'd be in a different place today.

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I won't ever need an abortion but I fight like hell to protect other women's right to choose (Original Post) StarfishSaver May 2019 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar May 2019 #1
Someone in Hollywood should make an imaginary movie about that! kimbutgar May 2019 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar May 2019 #5
Ditto!!! LovingA2andMI May 2019 #3
i never made that choice, but mopinko May 2019 #4
Regarding post #1, it has been further said that if men could get pregnant, abortion... 3catwoman3 May 2019 #6
+++ brer cat May 2019 #7

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mopinko

(70,078 posts)
4. i never made that choice, but
Wed May 15, 2019, 10:48 PM
May 2019

i had 5 kids. not all planned. it was a serious consideration more than once, but i never made it.
i was incredibly grateful that it was there. that the decision was mine, and only mine.

w/o that choice available, i would have been a slave. i would have been unable to argue that i was not a slave.

raising 5 kids was hard enough. i had plenty of moments of doubt. they were hard. but if i had instead had to look back at old white men making that choice for me, i honestly doubt i would have survived.

3catwoman3

(23,973 posts)
6. Regarding post #1, it has been further said that if men could get pregnant, abortion...
Thu May 16, 2019, 12:04 AM
May 2019

...would be a sacrament rather than a sin.

brer cat

(24,559 posts)
7. +++
Thu May 16, 2019, 12:09 AM
May 2019

It is a sorry state of affairs if we are only willing to fight for the rights that we personally want and need.

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