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3. Oh, well! This is called "getting what you vote for." What's sad is that you can't even

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Jul 4, 2013, 08:10 AM

Jul 2013

get people interested in voting even when their lives are on the line; you have to wait until people start dying. And you have to go through the same process every generation, because this country refuses to learn from experience.

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Aggressive new abortion restrictions take hold in Wisconsin [View all] cali Jul 2013 OP

They'll need to see dead sisters, daughters, etc Ilsa Jul 2013 #1

These teabagger legislators won't ever see that Mariana Jul 2013 #9

And they probably won't ever know about it. Ilsa Jul 2013 #14

True. The "loved ones" of bagger politicians will continue to have discreet "D & C's" as they always catbyte Jul 2013 #26

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2013 #37

Next up. Transvaginal scans at the Minnesota border. kickysnana Jul 2013 #2

Oh, well! This is called "getting what you vote for." What's sad is that you can't even Nay Jul 2013 #3

I fucking loathe this response. I see it nearly daily. It spits in the face of the million and a Ed Suspicious Jul 2013 #17

+1 octoberlib Jul 2013 #23

And just how could you prove your statement? Bandit Jul 2013 #28

I support my statement by pointing you to the fact that Wisconsin's 11 and recently ten Ed Suspicious Jul 2013 #31

. emmadoggy Jul 2013 #32

So the woman I cared for recently who had to abort a 23 week baby AllyCat Jul 2013 #4

For those of us who were alive in the 1970s and remember the TBF Jul 2013 #5

Don't give a shit. They could have recalled him, but didn't. broadcaster75201 Jul 2013 #6

yuck. cali Jul 2013 #7

Yeah, seriously etherealtruth Jul 2013 #10

Fer heavens sake, why on earth do people talk like this? Ed Suspicious Jul 2013 #18

there are plenty of liberal women in the red states who did not vote for this guy La Lioness Priyanka Jul 2013 #19

So. I have lived long enough to see Wisconsin turn upside down. WinkyDink Jul 2013 #8

As have I etherealtruth Jul 2013 #12

uh, all of us who fought againtst vapor ballotts (and lost)? elehhhhna Jul 2013 #15

Privatized, no less. WinkyDink Jul 2013 #16

But look at it this way... Left Coast2020 Jul 2013 #22

K & R Le Taz Hot Jul 2013 #11

St. Paul's Planned Parenthood clinic is only about 25 miles The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2013 #13

Any family with a childbearing-aged female, should have a fund set aside SoCalDem Jul 2013 #20

yeah. immediate AND long term strategies BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2013 #30

Revival of the Jane network pitbullgirl1965 Jul 2013 #34

WI and others who elected TeaScum or didn't vote are getting just what they asked for. RBInMaine Jul 2013 #21

Or maybe they're trying to provoke a SCOTUS challenge octoberlib Jul 2013 #24

K&R. (nt) Kurovski Jul 2013 #25

This should be so illegal and unconstitutional. ananda Jul 2013 #27

torquemada lives quite happily is wisconsin dembotoz Jul 2013 #29

Minnesota professor's allegations ahlnord Jul 2013 #33

This is religious extremism in action, plain and simple. SylviaD Jul 2013 #35

War On Women. blkmusclmachine Jul 2013 #36