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I don't think even the 17th century was this fucked up.

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Oh, come on, EVERYBODY knows that the Ex Post Facto Clause doesn't apply to black people.

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It is a long, long time since I learned what little criminal law I ever knew, and in a different jurisdiction, but it there nothing about proportional response? That for a plea of self defence to be valid the force used has to be in proportion to the threat? Apologies if this has been discussed already but I’m only just up.

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Yellowhammer fund - (normally, they help provide funding for abortions for women in rural Alabama who, otherwise, would not be able to to afford one).

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If that woman had been proper married her husband could sue for property damage?

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Bottom line,they want women to be doormats who do and say nothing.FTFY.

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Seems like we need to reconsider what a state is. If a states sends a whole delegation of gerrymandered 'congressmen' to the House, do we have to seat them? If a state mistreats many humans under law (this case) can we somehow just sanction the whole fucking state? Like through broad DoJ cases?

Oops. Forgot that these dumbasses artificially dominate our federal gubmint.

(Sorry to overgeneralize, from this one serious subject, but I've had about enough of these so-called 'states.')

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And yet none of these 'fetus is a person' types support the SSA issuing SSNs to fetuses, and amending the IRS code to make fetuses dependents for the purposes of tax exemptions. It's almost like they DON'T think they're human.

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Caffeine is not good for a developing fetus. Maybe Lt. Reid needs to start making sweeps of restaurants for any pregnant women drinking coffee, a coke, or tea, and lock them up. In fact, maybe he could travel with a box of pregnancy tests and randomly test women of child bearing age drinking a caffeinated drink to make sure they are not trying to sneak in a cup of coffee before they start showing. Of course, any pregnant woman with an alcoholic drink should be locked up.

I'm sure all the white church ladies would not mind a few days in jail, thousands for an attorney, and possibly 5 years in prison for drinking a coke while pregnant. After all, it's for the fetus.

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Google "women prosecuted for miscarriage"

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This. Fucking. Country. And. The. Assholes. With. "Authority".

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God this is depressing and to all my American friends I know that you aren't all like this and are as horrified as anyone else is. I live in a place where stupid Brexit is happening and Boris Johnson is likely to be PM, but I don't give up hope. On the little island I live on we welcomed the families that came over from Somalia, my friend had an abortion when she was eighteen and all of the medical staff were kind and supportive. Just being female or an immigrant or a non elderly white male shouldn't be a crime.

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And perhaps related?

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It is an actual discussion that happens when it comes to dehumanizing women. I actually got told off at work by a customer who asked if I was single and did I have kids.It was so strange and out of nowhere I just answered honestly and said that I was happily single and don't want kids myself although I'm pretty good with them. He called me a selfish bitch. I wish that I had come up with a suitable reply but it was so strange I just blinked in confusion. Was I supposed to offer up the use of my uterus to him? By the way he was at least ten years older than me and actually has children from three other women.

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I didn't work with him he was a customer and I was sort of in the position of wanting to punch him and remember that I kind of need to be employed Morgan. I did creatively kill him quite a lot of times in my mind though.

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Personally, I want to stick to whatever describes them without creating harm for groups that are already demonized. So I'm going to go with that or Fundagelicals.

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