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DemUnleashed

(633 posts)
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 11:56 AM Jul 2022

Republicans like to trot out...

Republicans like to trot out people who say something like "My mom thought about having an abortion but she didn't. If she had, I wouldn't be here today!"

We need to trot out people to say "My mom had an abortion before. If she hadn't, I probably wouldn't be here today!"

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SWBTATTReg

(26,399 posts)
2. A better question perhaps is to ask each one of the republicans if they paid for or had an abortion?
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 12:00 PM
Jul 2022

Hypocrites.

sop

(19,313 posts)
5. "My mom had serious complications during pregnancy. If she hadn't been able to get an abortion,
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 12:09 PM
Jul 2022

she wouldn't be here today."

DemUnleashed

(633 posts)
9. So...
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 12:27 PM
Jul 2022

So many different circumstances involved and that's why we believe in pro-choice! If someone doesn't want an abortion, then don't get one!!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
10. And isn't it nice that whatever your mother chose to do
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 12:30 PM
Jul 2022

It was HER decision, and not decided for her by some legislative nitwits trying to practice medicine.

Mad_Machine76

(25,005 posts)
11. Most people are too kind to point out
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 12:33 PM
Jul 2022

that if your parents had had an abortion, you wouldn't even know it because you never became sentient.

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