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(7,888 posts)are under attack by a male dominated Republican minority.
Martin Eden
(12,888 posts)Teach "abstinence only" sex education while defunding Planned Parenthood and making birth control more difficult to obtain.
The Mouth
(3,172 posts)much easier to obtain. I think once they realized that certain demographics used abortion more readily than others, they were totally aboard with it. It's not a fetus issue, they care no more for the fetus than the disabled vet- it's a patriarchial control issue.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)erronis
(15,488 posts)Demanding it.
Denying it.
Demeaning it.
For them sex is just another way to stoke their little egos.
Money, power, privilege.
Poor little mushrooms.
Skittles
(153,328 posts)if it was about sex, they'd be going ape-shit over boner pills
Arkansas Granny
(31,545 posts)Pro-lifers won't accept that premise because it doesn't give them as much opportunity to control or shame women.
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)How is any citizen of this country supposed to have any faith in a party that does things like this? Where has the Equal Rights for Women gone. We keep saying that we are a modernized country, that our technologies have brought us farther to making life better for us everyday. Well when we slip backward and let these idiots control our lives there is no better life.
BigmanPigman
(51,676 posts)Donate to Planned Parenthood, NOW, etc.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)What they can or cannot do.
JI7
(89,292 posts)and keeping women down.
Voltaire2
(13,300 posts)of property. They do not give a fuck about abortion.
Wounded Bear
(58,800 posts)The aboriton issue was never about "babies." It was always about controlling and suppressing women.
applegrove
(118,973 posts)every election to vote GOP.
Wounded Bear
(58,800 posts)Ohiogal
(32,220 posts)Greatly reduces the need for abortion! Why cant they understand that ???
applegrove
(118,973 posts)an issue and religious folk will vote republican. If you reduce the abomination you can't manipulate with it so easily.