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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans 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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DemUnleashed
Jul 2022
OP
I would respond to that with "And you are proof she made the wrong decision!" nt
Atticus
Jul 2022
#1
A better question perhaps is to ask each one of the republicans if they paid for or had an abortion?
SWBTATTReg
Jul 2022
#2
We should ask, if your daughter was pregnant due to incest...what would you do.
LakeArenal
Jul 2022
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Atticus
(15,124 posts)1. I would respond to that with "And you are proof she made the wrong decision!" nt
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,697 posts)3. Bravo...Excellent retort.
SWBTATTReg
(22,059 posts)2. A better question perhaps is to ask each one of the republicans if they paid for or had an abortion?
Hypocrites.
LakeArenal
(28,792 posts)4. We should ask, if your daughter was pregnant due to incest...what would you do.
SWBTATTReg
(22,059 posts)6. That is a better question!
LakeArenal
(28,792 posts)7. Or better: WHEN your daughter WAS a victim......?
sop
(10,090 posts)5. "My mom had serious complications during pregnancy. If she hadn't been able to get an abortion,
she wouldn't be here today."
DemUnleashed
(633 posts)9. So...
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
It was HER decision, and not decided for her by some legislative nitwits trying to practice medicine.
Mad_Machine76
(24,391 posts)11. Most people are too kind to point out
that if your parents had had an abortion, you wouldn't even know it because you never became sentient.
johnp3907
(3,729 posts)13. I always say "I'm glad your mother had the right to choose."
Pity she chose wrong.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)14. Too bad Hitler's mother didn't have an abortion.
Or name any more recent evil person/mass murderer.
Silent3
(15,130 posts)15. When Republicans say that, I wish their mothers had decided differently n/t