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Back in the '90s, when Viagra was still an new drug, I had a temp job at Pfizer's artificial joint division. One of my tasks was compiling the monthly list of all those who got which Pfizer drug, as the union workforce got Pfizer drugs for free from the company with a prescription. I always thought that anyone who anyone who got Viagra should get a sign-off from their wives or SOs specifying exactly how many doses per month he should get. I also thought that their doses should be delivered on the factory floor in front of all their co-workers: "Adams, four doses. Davis, three doses. Hernandez, nine doses, Mendoza, twelve doses. What, you got a side piece?"

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I vaguely remember reading that in high school, but then again, I vaguely remember dodging Tyrannosaurus when I went to high school.

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Arkansas once elected Bill Clinton as governor. Neither Mississippi nor Alabama has come anywhere close to that.

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Strangely, I went from oily-faced to dry skin and got curlier hair from pregnancy. And it's actually become harder to pee instead of easier, like my bladder muscles don't want to relax entirely now. D;

But my daughter was also three weeks early, so she was small enough to slip out easily with minimal damage and tearing.

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The issue, possibly, with jamming the hotline is that it may cause a different set of problems for the women who are required to use it before having an abortion. If they can't get through, will they be delayed from proceeding until they can? The whole thing is such an abuse on numerous levels. Perhaps a hack of whatever system is being used to track this could be devised that would make it appear that every woman in the state has used the hotline.

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Jim Crow rides again. Not being pregnant is a constitutional right.You don't get to choose which rights you protect.

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I can't even begin to process the mindset that someone would say that aloud.

And this is coming from a former bank teller who was allowed to smoke while interacting with customers, cig dangling from mouth, counting out cash and shit.

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It's all about deifying sperm at the expense of women. Father, son and holy Sperm.Which is why you keep religious mumbo-jumbo out of modern democracy. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Because we don't teach American children where babies come from. Or much else, beyond wage slave training.

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We should definitely work on our insane foster care/adoption system, but NOT as any kind of alternative to bodily autonomy for pregnant people.

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One set of laws for white men. Another for the rest of it.

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THAT WAS GREAT!!!

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Oh FOR FUCK'S SAKE. This proposal is illegal on its face. HIPAA, people. And "empowering?? That word does not mean what you think it means, Rep. Ballswinger. GTFOH.Edit: Stuttering fingers. Mispelt HIPAA

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What's the over/under on this hotline being staffed by a veritable TRIBE of Duggars?

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Chances of dying are even higher if you're a WOC.

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These assholes call themselves "pro-life" while babies go hungry.

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