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Interesting how conservative politicians don’t have an example of one of their own that did God’s work after office, or that God saved from cancer.

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I’m an ass. So I assume I said something I shouldn’t have.

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Care to link? I want to throw this at my mom's face for a ragegasm.

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I think it's more like: "Who would want a child to grow up in a world where Donald Trump is president."

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The original could be slow as well. French New Wave cinema. Not to everyone's taste.

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It was the shock of hearing it locally. The radio jock was like "I never thought I'd be saying these words, but..."

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As an abortion of sorts himself, the trumpling has a special feel for such things.

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Sorry. This was looooong before the Intertoobz. It was in a column or maybe book by Ann Landers. I no longer remember the priest's name, but I'm pretty sure he was somehow affiliated with Notre Dame University. He may even have been its president at one time. (Shudder)

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Fair.

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Polite and restrained, but fair.

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And for another counter to the religious arguments against abortion and contraception both -- which make no rational sense at all, anyway -- me and my partner have one child and wanted more. She conceived identical twins after some time and with difficulty. BECAUSE they were identical, and shared the same amniotic sac, their cords twisted around each other and they died in the womb. Then she conceived once more, but miscarried.My sister wanted children very much and would have been a great mother, but her only chance was the in vitro method, which she tried again and again with heartbreaking lack of success. Finally she did conceive, but it was an ectopic pregnancy and its only result was emergency hospital treatment for her, after which she and her partner decided, no more.My conclusion? God, if he exists, does not care in the slightest if women who yearn for children lose them before they are born or can't conceive them in the first place. And of course -- assuming he controls everything -- he aborts countless multitudes of foetuses all the time, often without the woman even knowing she's pregnant. It follows that he doesn't give a stuff about abortion either.And I'm more than just sceptical of the idea that the people who pass laws against abortion have been any closer to God's trestle board than you or me.

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the thing is that said crowd doesn't care when the stuff that happens in the real world isn't happening the way the holy book would like it to have. this has never been about reason, this has always been about power and the consolidation of that power.

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Never about reason. Always about power and consolidation of power. That pretty much says it all.

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or an appendix to her appendix.

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that babby looks like Putin.

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I am going to be honest when are pro-choice sources going to ever do stories that focus on tons of times that Planned Parenthood has done botched abortions. I also wonder how the mainstream media gives all the cover to the pro-choice side, and then has the nerve to say that the pro-life side controls everything.

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