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No wonder they voted in a Democratic majority, after that.

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The homicide rate in Mississippi is significantly higher there, as well. God must want the MAGAts to murder each other. It's significantly higher, like 25%, in Louisiana, Alabama and Missouri, as well as MS, all blood-red states. My source is Thom Hartmann, who was quoting a study by The Third Way.https://www.thirdway.org/re...

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I'm beginning to think they like activist judges and legislating from the bench more than Democrats!

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Heck is like Hell, but with milder punishments.Hell = eternal hellfireHeck = sock keeps slipping down inside your shoe.

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I upfisted it in good faith, but now I would like to know what it means.

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It's making a snooty "nah nyah"-type face, with your lips pushed out in a snoot. At least in my fam. Hadn't heard "cocking a snook" from anyone else in a really long time! XD

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I wish they would have ensconced a HIPAA-affirming plank wherein no practice shall fulfill records requests from out of state government entities for the purposes of legal persecution. Women will be traveling from the Gilead states to MN and it would be nice to shut down their home states' efforts to criminalize them.

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"Not all conservatives are stupid, but stupid people are usually conservative."~ John Stuart Mill

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The one thing Republican Jesus hates more than a Welfare Queen is a women who refuses to become a Welfare Queen by getting an abortion...

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You know I thought that said "no one they think of as a little girl is in need of protection" and I thought, and why is it that deep down they don't really think little girls need protection-- regardless of what they say? Deep down that's what I believe. When the situation suits them, they'll see the little girl as in need of no protection at all-- they'll dispense with that first thing in favor of some other thing. Like "you don't want to ruin a young man's life!" Of course that would not be little girls but older girls--- but who knows? So painfully true. Sorry to be so morbid. But if a little girl is cute she becomes something else than a little girl, and that's it for her!

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Too much profit.

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No. There is also no major movement to outlaw Viagra.

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Or, of course, the "right" to carry concealed weapons anywhere and any time.

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no pants either

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I received one at age 34 after 2 kids. My doc questioned me mildly regarding how sure I was and did I know it was unlikely to be reversible, then went an with the procedure when I assured him I was clear.

Honestly, it doesn't sound anything like the grilling women get.

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This is good, but merely enacting legislation does not guarantee that there won't be 50 years worth of aggravation about changing the legislation, or passing a constitutional amendment against reproductive freedom. I'm beginning to think that there is no way to ensure permanently that such rights would not be subject to decades of constant attempts to override whatever good things are done. I hope I'm wrong, but here we are today.

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