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No, most have reduced it to one exception - themselves.

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I regret that I have but one fist to up for my country.

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Congrats on the paper. Hmmm.. History of sexuality, huh? You into carbon dating?

Try the veal.

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I did. The stupid is strong in some people...whatcha gonna do.

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I had a friend who survived an abortion. He was one of a set of twins, and the other fetus was terminated, but he made it. Freaky.

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wow, so mom simultaneously did and did not terminate her pregnancy!

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Naw, Hyena Style birthing is totally a thing. All the kids are doing it now!Of course he wouldn't have ever peed straight again, afterwards.

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AN Historian. You're AN Historian.

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I've tried to explain the connection between protective legislation, female employment, and the Industrial Revolution and the outlawing of abortion so many times that it feels like a rehearsed speech, but so far, I've gotten about zero interest from people who just continue to claim that Christians have always opposed abortions. It's really annoying.

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Schrödinger's mom?

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Not with my accent

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Unless he was born at that time (birth was induced), then she did terminate instead of simply (accidentally) reduce her pregnancy.

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Actually, from an egalitarian perspective, that argument *does* appear to make sense. Seriously.

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Independently of egalitarianism, though, I see no more reason to force a male-bodied person to pay child support if his female-bodied sexual partner promised to get an abortion and lied or changed her mind in regards to this later on than I do to hold me responsible if I will loan someone a baseball bat only to discover afterwards that this other person unexpectedly beat several people to death with this baseball bat of mine. Seriously.

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