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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:25 PM May 2017

Alaska rep censured for implying some women get abortions for free travel

(CNN)A member of the Alaska House of Representatives was censured on Wednesday for comments he made implying some Alaskan women get abortions for free travel.

Rep. David Eastman, a Republican from Wasilla, told Alaska Public Media that some women take advantage of Medicaid-funded travel for medically necessary abortions.

"You have individuals who are in villages and are glad to be pregnant, so that they can have an abortion because there's a free trip to Anchorage involved," Eastman told the outlet, which published the comments on May 3. Eastman also made a similar statement to The Associated Press.

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Alaska rep censured for implying some women get abortions for free travel (Original Post) n2doc May 2017 OP
Another worthless POS from Wasilla dalton99a May 2017 #1
What is in the water there? crazycatlady May 2017 #4
jeeebus. mopinko May 2017 #7
meth Ken Burch May 2017 #8
Good riversedge May 2017 #2
I think he got that way living downwind from the meth labs. Ken Burch May 2017 #3
My uterus rebukes ye!! shenmue May 2017 #5
He didn't imply that some women get abortions for free travel. Mariana May 2017 #6
 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
3. I think he got that way living downwind from the meth labs.
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:31 PM
May 2017

Only explanation I can think of for Palin, too.

Mariana

(14,856 posts)
6. He didn't imply that some women get abortions for free travel.
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:48 PM
May 2017

The fucker who wrote this crap needs to consult a dictionary. Eastman didn't imply some women get abortions for free travel. He said it outright!

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