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Noem is a plastic person.

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The definition of 'militia' hasn't changed. An adjunct to government assets, commissioned by the chief executive and commanded by an officer subject to the UCMJ.2a was a Federal promise to train and equip each state's militia. The 'People' refers to state governance. Basically, it's a guarantee that the Fed won't leave Governors disarmed.The idea of it applying to individuals wouldn't have occurred to the Writers.The word ' abortion' isn't in the Constitution because it was legal. It was a women's issue, beneath their notice.The word 'woman' does not appear, either.18th century mindset.Check out "1776: the Musical." Probably the rawest depiction of the declaration, with singing and dancing. Suitable for tweens.

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Or if it is a pregnant girl or woman.

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I don't think so. Young women can not get off their asses to vote. Older white women vote R.

I am very down.

Talk me up, please. Sigh.

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Just how the hippies happened. WWII parents were steeped in military organization and protocols. Older Boomers weren't. Youngest boomers backlashed into yuppies.I see the same scenario repeating. GQP has sabotaged the elementary education of generations of Americans. Trump is the result. The resulting theocracy will eliminate the right to a competent, free public education. We will go the way of South America: servants of the rich christians.

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This isn't about abortion. It's about legalizing 2nd class citizens, with fewer rights and protections than others. With Roe as a precedent, Brown is a bird on a wire.

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Start here: "do you believe that women are entitled to equal rights with men? Yes or no?"Ignore abortion. It's a decoy.

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6 white men own 90% of US media. Most Americans only have access to basic cable, if that. Broadband is often confined to the library. Fox has a captive audience.

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Legal child rape. How christian!

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I would think being pregnant at that age would be a life long trauma. If she survives. She is a generation that has never known a world where school wasn't a possible death trap.Massacres are part of their reality. And forced pregnancies. 2nd class citizens in a theocracy.GQP Christians have some explaining to do.

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Scar tissue from decades of being demonized. White men can't lead Dems anymore. The status quo is too comfortable for them. Elect women. Especially women of color. They are suffering. Rich white men aren't.

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The child's life is of less value to her than the approval of monsters.

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Remember how long a child's year is. One 10th of her life would be spent in a grotesque parody of Alien. Knowing each and every day she survives that the growth within her is more important to the adults around her than she is.I'd spend the months making a list. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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And the raped 10 year old. She's less important than her rapist's sperm.

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Turn off the TV

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What would Wonder Woman do? Or Arya Stark? We had to fight without any maps or guides. And few role models.

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