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24. No. As a woman I don't see them as any different. Either way through laws & taxes
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 06:08 PM
Jan 2013

you're demanding the right to control what I do with my body, just because you personally don't like it. You drive in traffic and you're getting far more pollution there than from a smoker, but that's ok because you like having transportation. I'm not a smoker and I've never had an abortion but I feel both should be the right of the individual. Not taxed or regulated out of existence because somebody else doesn't like it.

You believe you should be able to tax and regulate what I chose to do with my body - I don't.

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100 Percent Correct kairos12 Jan 2013 #1
Also, these "pro-life" people Hayabusa Jan 2013 #2
Exactly. The hypocrisy is astounding. They're "pro-life" yet are willing to kill & bomb. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #4
The people I love even more are the ones who say "a womans body a womans choice) but that DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #3
This makes no sense. Last I checked tobacco, alcohol, & obesity is legal. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #6
True, however there's a thread up now where a state is trying to pass a law that says DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #7
Still makes no sense. And it is a bizarre equation to even make. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #8
I'm pointing out the hypocrisy both ways. The Dems don't believe you have a right to DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #9
I'm a Dem and I don't care what you do with your body as long as it doesn't harm others. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #12
You don't understand the definition of hypocrisy. Zoeisright Jan 2013 #15
Arn't we 'Dem'? daleanime Jan 2013 #16
Let me know when Dems march on DC to take away your smoking rights. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #22
Er, this Dem thinks you have a right to smoke. MH1 Jan 2013 #32
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav JDPriestly Jan 2013 #20
When you can keep smoke in your own lungs Zoeisright Jan 2013 #14
No. As a woman I don't see them as any different. Either way through laws & taxes DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #24
No one will stop you from smoking or drinking. JDPriestly Jan 2013 #19
Not equivalent. Hissyspit Jan 2013 #26
"Oooo the dangers of second hand pregnancy!" No one said, EVER. nt left coaster Jan 2013 #28
I know you were being sarcastic but there really are second hand dangers and consequences DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #29
Holy fuck. Give it up. Hissyspit Jan 2013 #35
You're really going there? REP Jan 2013 #33
You're goofy. UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2013 #34
my theory, you only truly love the fetus, if you love the old man/woman it becomes... spanone Jan 2013 #5
Shamefully loathsome hypocrisy knows indepat Jan 2013 #10
I really do think our "pro lifers" are really no better than the Taliban. Initech Jan 2013 #11
Not to mention cutting prenatal care and prenatal health research. Zoeisright Jan 2013 #13
One of my sons once got brave enough to tell me he favored "restricting abortions" mountain grammy Jan 2013 #17
It has never been pro-life or anti-abortion adieu Jan 2013 #18
I'm always saying, if you don't believe in abortion then don't have one. SheilaT Jan 2013 #21
As Jennifer Granholm wrote in the Huffington Post a while back, they are Pro-BIRTH, that's it. Flaxbee Jan 2013 #23
As someone once said... PennsylvaniaMatt Jan 2013 #25
Pro-BIRTH people HockeyMom Jan 2013 #27
And if a fetus has the same rights as the born OnionPatch Jan 2013 #30
Pro-"lifers" won't be content until the United States of America becomes the Republic of Gilead. kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #31
Personally, I never took the anti-choice types seriously either bluestater1966fgs Jan 2013 #36
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