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Ineeda

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24. I had an abortion back in the 80's

Reply to calimary (Reply #13)

Mon Dec 8, 2014, 10:00 AM

Dec 2014

and submitted a claim to my employee-benefit insurance company even though abortions were still talked of in whispers. I was ready to fight if they refused to pay. It was legal, medical procedure, and my husband's vasectomy, performed a week before, was covered, so I was ready for battle. Fair is fair, I thought. And hell, I hadn't fought in the trenches only to be categorically denied.

They covered it. Not a peep. But I've been saying since 2001 (yelling it, actually) that we can't take this hard-won right for granted, ever. An entire generation hadn't experienced the panic of an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy. Now, horrifyingly, many do. And more will.

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..Oh, WOW!.....This jaw dropping image from the Houston Galleria area protest.. [View all] dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 OP

Beautiful and horrifying Warpy Dec 2014 #1

wow Liberal_in_LA Dec 2014 #2

Wow! MoreGOPoop Dec 2014 #3

THIS one is just absolutely IT for me: calimary Dec 2014 #4

+1 nt AnotherDreamWeaver Dec 2014 #7

Spelled correctly too BobbyBoring Dec 2014 #9

Proof-positive she's not a teabagger! calimary Dec 2014 #12

Sigh, ...what have we become? n/t Paper Roses Dec 2014 #11

Sometimes I don't even like to let myself think about that too deeply, Paper Roses. calimary Dec 2014 #13

I had an abortion back in the 80's Ineeda Dec 2014 #24

The "right" looks for ways to segment the "left" ... staggerleem Dec 2014 #25

The look on her face BrotherIvan Dec 2014 #17

The look on her face did me in too. ScreamingMeemie Dec 2014 #21

Wow. ctsnowman Dec 2014 #23

Glad someone brought up Sean Bell (the other sign) BumRushDaShow Dec 2014 #5

I find this story so sad an amazing. Raine1967 Dec 2014 #10

Unbelievable (but not all that surprising)... Ino Dec 2014 #15

K&R!!! Dustlawyer Dec 2014 #6

K & R malaise Dec 2014 #8

I am sitting in a small town in Alabama dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #14

The strategy of taking over the churches TBF Dec 2014 #16

That is the key BrotherIvan Dec 2014 #18

Before it was a gun, it was a sword. Read: alfredo Dec 2014 #19

That is an amazing book. hifiguy Dec 2014 #26

Ralph Reed boasted that the Christian Coalition was going to take over the GOP, then alfredo Dec 2014 #33

Reminds me of an old joke, not so funny any more hifiguy Dec 2014 #35

Nowadays, capitalist don't have to see blood or smell corpses. alfredo Dec 2014 #40

Yes, and in the end it will be those damned churches (I say that as a Christian) that will be the jwirr Dec 2014 #39

Good point - TBF Dec 2014 #27

Two books by Reza Aslan, "No God but God" and "Zealot" will give good background alfredo Dec 2014 #34

How big was the protest? Where was it? Manifestor_of_Light Dec 2014 #20

I pulled this from a Tweet by Anonymous who was reposting it. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #22

The Torn Flag ... a poem by Pete Seeger... DreamGypsy Dec 2014 #28

Gypsy...thank you SO much for that poem/song. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #30

Thanks to you... DreamGypsy Dec 2014 #32

Wow. I had never heard that one. Fits today totally. jwirr Dec 2014 #38

American history... TeeYiYi Dec 2014 #29

Gulp. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #31

Another truth. jwirr Dec 2014 #37

Breathe taking. Real. jwirr Dec 2014 #36