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Hekate

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12. Re crossing state lines: it falls hardest on rural women, the poor, teens, the abused...

Reply to Opel_Justwax (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 30, 2019, 09:13 PM

Apr 2019

Women who cannot easily explain to other people why they have to be gone for a day or a week. Bosses, teachers, husbands, boyfriends, their mom and dad, their own children who need care.

The hurdles are monumental already in Texas, a geographically vast state.

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If the forced-birth cult wins... [View all] TygrBright Apr 2019 OP

Shameless self-kick for the day crowd. n/t TygrBright Apr 2019 #1

That cult only wants to force YOU to give birth jmowreader Apr 2019 #2

There were a couple of girls in my high school like that. murielm99 Apr 2019 #3

Banishment also used to be a thing jmowreader Apr 2019 #5

One of my friends and contemporaries murielm99 Apr 2019 #7

Lots of white teen pregnancies that fueled the white adoption industry.That dried up rather abruptly Hekate Apr 2019 #10

Right. murielm99 May 2019 #17

I need to remember this. LiberalFighter Apr 2019 #14

If Roe Vs Wade is overturned it goes back to the States. Many States have now legalized abortion. Opel_Justwax Apr 2019 #4

I don't think the GOP wants it overturned either jmowreader Apr 2019 #6

That problem is twofold: one is that many states have pre-emptively banned abortion by... Hekate Apr 2019 #11

Re crossing state lines: it falls hardest on rural women, the poor, teens, the abused... Hekate Apr 2019 #12

I would love to agree with you, but DonCoquixote Apr 2019 #8

this is one of the saddest books I have ever read: musette_sf Apr 2019 #9

I call it "being forced to sacrifice one's firstborn on the altar of social shame." nt Hekate Apr 2019 #13

yes musette_sf Apr 2019 #15

k&r n/t orleans May 2019 #16