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In reply to the discussion: "NO": The Second Part of Trump's Answer That Got Audible Gasps From the Audience [View all]PatrickforO
(14,621 posts)30. Since I have three daughters and two granddaughters, I liked your rant.
I especially liked when you said, "What would happen if we supported these young women with daycare needs, and we had free college like Bernie has asked for? What a difference that choice would be for many young women!"
We are so brutal to our young mothers. If we actually organized our society around human need instead of human greed, abortions would go way down. I believe it is the cancer of neoliberal capitalism that makes it increasingly hard to afford a child, and of course the cancer of wrinkly white males in a patriarchal religion telling women what they can and cannot do.
Patriarchal religious fanatics, whether Christian, Muslim or Jewish are very dangerous to the common good.
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"NO": The Second Part of Trump's Answer That Got Audible Gasps From the Audience [View all]
kpete
Mar 2016
OP
not that i agree with punishing any abortion however her body her choice remember?
saturnsring
Mar 2016
#8
the desicion to abort is hers and hers alone - urged or not it is still she that makes that desicion
saturnsring
Apr 2016
#95
Does the man own the woman? If not, then why should he be punished under Trump's law?
Democat
Mar 2016
#9
but in the scenario being discussed, the woman does NOT have the ability to make their own decison
Skittles
Mar 2016
#72
I guess CNN didn't see fit to print that. Perhaps because its corporate owners are patriarchal...
PatrickforO
Mar 2016
#33
What if she had the abortion because he kicked her to the curb when he found out she was pregnant
ToxMarz
Mar 2016
#35
In your scenario, the man would be guilty whether or not he's the biological father
Jim Lane
Mar 2016
#73
the best thing that has happened for democrats in a while is Trump and his uncontrollable mouth
beachbum bob
Mar 2016
#14
Our society operates for the wealthy. Need an abortion? Got money for a European vacation? /nt
NCjack
Mar 2016
#32
Just Wait--The Whack Jobs Will Propose Pregnancy Test Controls At International Airports
Vogon_Glory
Mar 2016
#47
The Trumpster Only Said What The Anti-Abortion Fanatics Want To Do If Roe vs Wade Goes Down
Vogon_Glory
Mar 2016
#46
The term used to be: "She got herself pregnant." See? How can the guy be at fault?
Hekate
Mar 2016
#52
Discrimination against women is still the first and foremost group being treated unequally globally
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#66
So, if all the GOP idiots believe in "smaller government"… Why do they insist on taking away a
world wide wally
Mar 2016
#68
This puritanical view of sex and women and men is going to be our undoing...
whereisjustice
Mar 2016
#75