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In reply to the discussion: Hillary - Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. [View all]LexVegas
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Hillary - Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. [View all]
Swede
20 hrs ago
OP
Only women are impacted by abortion or the lack of safe abortions. It's not a people thing.
Autumn
19 hrs ago
#4
I can assure you no man has ever had an abortion. Men may be a bystander in a woman's abortion
Autumn
19 hrs ago
#6
Having helped men and nonbinary people get abortions, I feel sorry that you live in such a narrow world.
WhiskeyGrinder
19 hrs ago
#9
Only human beings with x only chromosomes can create and carry babies
questionseverything
13 hrs ago
#26
People do, in fact, like abortion. It's a solution that works for them.
WhiskeyGrinder
15 hrs ago
#22
I know many people who were happy to get an abortion and did not find it disruptive.
WhiskeyGrinder
5 hrs ago
#46
I am in my eighties. Abortion was never legal when I was single and birth control was hit or miss.
appleannie1
18 hrs ago
#12
i'm old enough to remember those days. fortunately never had to face that myself, but
mopinko
13 hrs ago
#24
Even the Bush family was pro-choice after a family friend died from a back-alley abortion.
OMGWTF
13 hrs ago
#29
Part of it's the economy, but it's more because the abortion pill protocol makes it easier to end a pregnancy,
WhiskeyGrinder
17 hrs ago
#16
But this is not about reality, it is about the control of women. Other methods have been used and have killed women.
efhmc
17 hrs ago
#18
We can do so much better than rusty coathanger abortions,..and then sepsis,....
magicarpet
13 hrs ago
#31