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22. Are welfare, food stamps, open heart surgery and root canals not "good things" because they aren't

Sun Oct 5, 2014, 02:05 PM

Oct 2014

the ideal outcome?

These and abortion ARE all "good things".

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Dropping the "apologetic" language for supporting abortion rights [View all] marmar Oct 2014 OP

Afreakingmen. And we can drop the word "rare", too. PeaceNikki Oct 2014 #1

imo a strong argument is that abortion is self-defense HereSince1628 Oct 2014 #2

Great read. 99Forever Oct 2014 #3

Most DUers support "safe, legal and rare". Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #4

I actually tend to say "safe, legal, accessible and rare" these days. Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #7

'Rare' is for steaks and stamps leftstreet Oct 2014 #9

Because contraception is better than abortion for everyone. Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #12

'everyone' should mind their own business n/t leftstreet Oct 2014 #16

And I will tell you what I told in in your ridiculous "poll". PeaceNikki Oct 2014 #11

Yeah, wasn't that Ted Kennedy such a bullshitter? Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #13

The party dropped the language in 2008, catch up, Nye. PeaceNikki Oct 2014 #15

Kennedy wasn't spouting the party platform in that speech. Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #17

77% of the 57 DUers who voted, not "DUers" as a whole. nt uppityperson Oct 2014 #27

55 votes with two options is most DUers? marmar Oct 2014 #6

LOL 55 DUers voted n/t leftstreet Oct 2014 #8

How many 'active' DUers were there in Nov 2013? leftstreet Oct 2014 #14

I think there are more than 57 DUers. eom uppityperson Oct 2014 #25

Here's another poll which had a similar outcome: Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #26

Did you even read the choices in that poll with 5 voters? Fail! uppityperson Oct 2014 #28

It was never a good idea to include "rare" gollygee Oct 2014 #19

Many of us know abortion is a "good thing". We're not pretending. PeaceNikki Oct 2014 #21

I want root canals and food stamps to be rare Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #23

Of course you do. PeaceNikki Oct 2014 #24

Bingo. And arguing otherwise makes us look like losers LittleBlue Oct 2014 #29