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In reply to the discussion: Kentucky GOP files new abortion ban: The only 'choice' women have is 'to conceive or not conceive' [View all]NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)62. Part of the Problem is the left isn't militaristic enough on this. We need to be unyielding.
It is a right to make your own medical decisions for your body. If someone doesn't like that, they can express their opinion and not partake, but their religious view doesn't trump the right to make your own medical decisions.
It's time to stop kowtowing to people claiming a religious need to restrict our rights. ISIS claims the same damn thing. And that's how we need to treat the trash that wants to take our rights away. Treat them like ISIS agents. Be aggressive - be brutal, because they don't have values - they have objectives. To accept that these fuckers have values is to admit ISIS has values.
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Kentucky GOP files new abortion ban: The only 'choice' women have is 'to conceive or not conceive' [View all]
DonViejo
Jan 2017
OP
like I have said, If you give the government the right to say you can't have an
demigoddess
Jan 2017
#13
They'd just try to declare marital rape OK again and tell the men to go to town
NickB79
Jan 2017
#46
There are many gathering in Frankfort both today and tomorrow to protest and make their voices heard
kickitup
Jan 2017
#27
That sounds like an unconstitutional, government mandated indentured servitude to me.
LonePirate
Jan 2017
#26
Here's a suggestion for Kentucky women: adopt Nancy Reagan's slogan "Just Say No."
Vinca
Jan 2017
#28
Part of the Problem is the left isn't militaristic enough on this. We need to be unyielding.
NutmegYankee
Jan 2017
#62