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Autumn

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4. Only women are impacted by abortion or the lack of safe abortions. It's not a people thing.

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #3)

Fri May 15, 2026, 09:05 AM

7 hrs ago

To quote John Lennon. "Only women bleed."

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Hillary - Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. [View all] Swede 8 hrs ago OP

Not people Hillary. Women. Women have always had and will always have Autumn 7 hrs ago #1

Are women not people? People who aren't women also get abortions. WhiskeyGrinder 7 hrs ago #3

Only women are impacted by abortion or the lack of safe abortions. It's not a people thing. Autumn 7 hrs ago #4

I can assure you men and nonbinary people also get abortions. WhiskeyGrinder 7 hrs ago #5

I can assure you no man has ever had an abortion. Men may be a bystander in a woman's abortion Autumn 7 hrs ago #6

Having helped men and nonbinary people get abortions, I feel sorry that you live in such a narrow world. WhiskeyGrinder 7 hrs ago #9

so the man had a uterus ? dave99 1 hr ago #27

Only human beings with x only chromosomes can create and carry babies questionseverything 1 hr ago #26

Categorically untrue LearnedHand 3 hrs ago #20

Do you think anyone reading this edhopper 7 hrs ago #7

JK Rowling? nt LexVegas 6 hrs ago #11

This is why Democrats don't win. hamsterjill 5 hrs ago #14

I'mWithYou+your statement. I'mWithHer(Hillary) oasis 1 hr ago #30

Be protectve. I don't care. People do not have abortions. Only women have abortions Autumn 28 min ago #32

Oh, ffs. 🙄 QueerDuck 5 hrs ago #17

The GOP doesn't believe in facts. nt BootinUp 7 hrs ago #2

My Favorite Abortion Quiet Em 7 hrs ago #8

I think the answer is easier Buckeyeblue 3 hrs ago #21

People do, in fact, like abortion. It's a solution that works for them. WhiskeyGrinder 2 hrs ago #22

I don't know a single woman who is happy to have Phoenix61 1 hr ago #28

Thank you Madame President. niyad 6 hrs ago #10

I am in my eighties. Abortion was never legal when I was single and birth control was hit or miss. appleannie1 6 hrs ago #12

Also young women who needed abortions and couldn't get them safely FakeNoose 6 hrs ago #13

and public hospitals had abortion wards, mopinko 4 hrs ago #19

Allow me to recommend a book about that! ShazzieB 1 hr ago #23

i'm old enough to remember those days. fortunately never had to face that myself, but mopinko 1 hr ago #24

Even the Bush family was pro-choice after a family friend died from a back-alley abortion. OMGWTF 1 hr ago #29

I've heard that abortions are on the increase Ilsa 5 hrs ago #15

Part of it's the economy, but it's more because the abortion pill protocol makes it easier to end a pregnancy, WhiskeyGrinder 5 hrs ago #16

But this is not about reality, it is about the control of women. Other methods have been used and have killed women. efhmc 5 hrs ago #18

As usual, Hillary is right dlk 1 hr ago #25

We can do so much better than rusty coathanger abortions,..and then sepsis,.... magicarpet 54 min ago #31