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In reply to the discussion: Please stop using the term 'pro life'. [View all]Locrian
(4,522 posts)87. they're pro on a lot of things....
Pro rapist - if you get pregnant, they will help the rapist ensure you carry his baby. So if some guy wants to rape and get someone pregnant (they wont help him rape) but they will DEFINITELY help him with forced pregnancy.
Same with pro incest.
Pro death - health of the woman? Who cares. Force her to carry, deliver etc. If she dies who cares as long as their beliefs are upheld
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Especially considering that most of them value their guns more than anything, including a fetus
Maraya1969
Jul 2022
#8
Birth slavery works too. Cattle & slaves have their birthing controlled. CON mistresses, not so much
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2022
#15
I'll take it a step further. The beginning of life has nothing to do with any of this.
Gore1FL
Jul 2022
#27
Worrying about "want" vs. "need" invites rhetoric of "worthy/unworthy" abortions, and is
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2022
#88
Pro-abortion is now the updated language used within the movement, so saying anti-abortion is also
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2022
#41
The right wing is hung up on individual freedom--no masks, no vaccines, no mandatea.
Lonestarblue
Jul 2022
#32
Just a reminder that DEAD people have more rights than a living woman in many states.
OMGWTF
Jul 2022
#37
Funny, how the men who wrote that story found their female scapegoat in the very first chapter....
lindysalsagal
Jul 2022
#60