…because the only moral abortion is my abortion.
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We can respect this woman’s regret over her abortion. Some women will regret having abortions; some–very sadly–may regret carrying their children to term. And we should work to make society more welcoming to women who are in the situation that this woman was, so that the choice to have an abortion is less freighted by economic and social forces. But none of that has anything to do with whether a woman should have the right to choose.
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"God meant it for good and will glorify Himself through this.”
It’s all OK as long as God gets the glory. Also, apparently, God is a narcissist whose primary interest is His own glory.
The things I learn here at TPM!
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If it looks like proselytizing and it sounds like proselytizing, chances are it IS proselytizing.
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Fucking hypocrites…both of them. And he married her knowing she had an abortion??? Shouldn’t she be stoned or something? There’s a whole lot to be said about pissants like this, but I haven’t got the energy to waste time on assholes that deny rights to everyone else, that try to take away reproductive healthcare that could prevent unplanned pregnancies, but let themselves apply those constitutional rights to abortion services if it helps them personally, just so long as they can pretend they were ashamed of themselves later.
Bullshit. Just plain bullshit. If she was a teenage mom, chances are she would have never married that sanctimonious asshole and had the family she does now…and she fucking knows it.
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With the threat of revealing her secret, she provides a “spin” of “faux shame” to justify her behavior for political purposes, and cloaks it in her “faith.” Phony, phony, phony!
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I see this bumper sticker now and again. It has nothing to do with help with a pregnancy. It has to do with discouraging an abortion and encouraging a woman to give birth to a child.
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She called her choice “the worst of my life.”
And yet, mirabile dictu, you were allowed to make it. Better shut that whole thing down for other women, because they’re not as clever as you.
In addition, I’m pretty sure that story about being ‘taken advantage of’ at a high school party is self-excusing bullshit. I am really sick of the hypocritical self-righteousness from these right-wing tools.
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These kinds of person don’t or won’t acknowledge the role of chance or contingency in the develoment and progress of their or anybody elses lives. “Everything happens for a reason” , is God’s will, or is pre-ordained.
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Honey god does everything for a reason. Your abortion was meant to be or god would have stopped it. Are you saying you wish you hadn’t had the four children you now have? You wish they were never born? Because if you’d had that child, chances are everything would have been different. How can you say that to your kids?
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“All for me, none for thee.”
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“If it’s legitimate rape,the female body has a way to try to shut that whole thing down.”
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So how is she atoning for her supposed worst choice of her life? Does she spend weekends in prison? Does she volunteer every day helping single mothers? Does she do anything but try to stop other people from having the choice she had, without which her life would be much bleaker than it is today?
This is why trying to legislate your very particular religion is a bad idea.
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By way of analogy, I once voted for a Republican. I knew that what I did was wrong at the time, but I never imagined the weight and guilt that I would carry as a consequence. My experience has made me a stalwart opponent of the GOP.
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Yea, look at meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I fucked up as a teen getting drunk and pregnant and now you are supposed to feel sorry for me because I chose the path that I believe should only be available to people like me, rich, white, fake Xtain…
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One further example of the First Commandment
Its All Good If You Are Republican
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I won’t excuse her dumbass remarks, but one has to wonder how much her “good Christian” husband shames her whenever they get into a tiff or a full blown argument, by bringing up her early decision to have an abortion as a teenager. She’s probably got Stockholm Syndrome. And sadly, its all in service to his career which seems built on weak foundation, which was clearly about to be exposed for being the hypocrites they are.
Btw, in order for a teenager to get an abortion today, parental consent by one or both parents has to be given in a lot of states…at least in Michigan, if that’s where she grew up. It may have been different when she was younger, but I don’t think so. So her husband apparently probably has a few bugs up his ass with regards to his in-laws as well.
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As Trump word say-“step up for your punishment”. You were taken advantage of? By another teenager? What say he?
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Conservatives don’t understand counterfactuals. I’ve tried to explain that not having an abortion means other potential lives are denied, and I just get blank stares.
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I knew that what I did was wrong at the time, but I never imagined the weight and guilt that I would carry as a consequence.
She’s now found comfort in The Lord, who so generously provided a date-rape pregnancy, knowing she has a weak and failed soul, forcing her to get an abortion. Without this generous sharing of The Lord, how else would she get the courage to ultimately cast down the unbelievers into the cesspit of their own reeking moral shortcomings? Really, that abortion was a blessing.
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