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Iwanka Trump had one or more abortions, too.

IOKIYAAR

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As in: how could anyone who actually works for a living vote Republican?

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and at least one of them was her father's too

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Monkeys are capable of empathy. Some humans clearly are not.

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you catch the drift

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Some of those stories in the linked essay are... BUG FUCK.

A small sample:

“The sister of a Dutch bishop in Limburg once visited the abortion clinic in Beek where I used to work in the seventies. After entering the full waiting room she said to me, ‘My dear Lord, what are all those young girls doing here?’ ‘Same as you’, I replied. ‘Dirty little dames,’ she said.” (Physician, The Netherlands)

“I once had a German client who greatly thanked me at the door, leaving after a difficult 22-week abortion. With a gleaming smile, she added: ‘Und doch sind Sie ein Mörder.’ (‘And you’re still a murderer.’)” (Physician, The Netherlands)

The medical director at a Dallas abortion clinic told this story: A white woman from an affluent north Dallas neighborhood brought her black maid in for an abortion and paid for it. While the maid was in a counseling session, a commotion was heard in the waiting room outside. The maid’s employer was handing out anti-abortion leaflets to other women waiting for abortions.

I am gobsmacked.

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Busybodies in action. This is so fucked up.

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Come on, man. I loathe these people too, but that is some bullshit.

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How can you be so sure? Are you willing to vouch for this known scumbag who raped a thirteen year old when Ivanka herself was also thirteen years old?

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Evidence, please.

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Oh Oh, I guess no more wacko religious shows for her.

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It is, in fact, a problem, for many reasons, including: there are states that criminalize the act of helping a person across state lines for an abortion (Texas's revamped Fugitive Slave Act law is the most prominent of these); many, many people who need abortions can afford neither the travel and lodgings nor the time off work they need for the travel, or; are living in abusive situations that make this kind of trip near-impossible; or, they have a fucking dead fetus in them, like all of the women in this story, and a few hours can mean the difference between life and death.

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There are in fact a multitude of laws in the works in the U.S. that are intended to criminalize abortion at the conceptual level; they are designed to prosecute people who look up information about abortion online, and to mine biometrics for signs of reproductive dereliction. It's scary as shit, but we're here.

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we can't and that's rather the point. No proof either way. I've heard that not all pedos rape their own children.

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Funnily enough, they again become a cluster of rebellious cells when they're adolescents

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Yeah. But some do. And I'm not giving Trump the benefit of the doubt.

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