@josephebacon, I did a similar walk with a friend who had a one-night-stand back in the 60s. At that time it was not anyone protesting since that was not the “fashion” at the time. It was the PP staff who demanded before they do anything for the friend I undergo a 3rd degree grilling about how irresponsible I was. I support PP but boy did that leave a very bad taste. The girl was so pissed she marched back in and confronted the staff over their ill-manners toward a friend just helping a friend.
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Courage, my ass. She was about to be exposed as the hypocrite she is. Do you think her tear jerking letter was written her or by one of her husband’s staff members?
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Hypocrisy thy name is republi-con!
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If she had access to and used the ‘morning after’ pill, would she feel guilty about having that choice, too? And would she really feel great about having her date-rapist’s baby?
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Same here…
What’s your gaydar register with TehranTom?
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And they still follow the Forced Birth dogma. What is so hard with CHOICE!? It worked for her. She has her Cleaver family and doesn’t want others to have the same chance. If she thinks others WANT to have abortions she and the Forced Birth nutsos are crazy. To the woman going through it they are necessary. Maybe not by their rules but it is the law. Abortions are legal. If she thinks she is going to burn in hell for having an abortion, that is a religious mental problem.
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How many of her high-school chums knew about her getting raped while drunk at a party, getting pregnant and then having an abortion? Did her ‘date’ brag about it?
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Yes, that is what she said … she said she made a bad “choice” and don’t see one word about how we should criminalize abortion any more than we should criminalize not taking God as our personal savior, being a loving parent or any number things that some might deem basic but not something to make a crime if you don’t do.
She might not prefer to think of it that way, but like quite a few people against abortion, her words have a certain pro-choice (as in legally) cast to them. Would she use “bad choice” type language if she killed a newborn? Dubious. And, the need for teens to have someone to confide in is correct too though many who do “choose” to have an abortion. Some do not. I can’t say if her choice was bad or not myself. But, yes, it was a choice she should have had.
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Edited to add this one, just because…
I think you’ve captured the essential incoherence of their thinking, which always results in their own absolution and the condemnation of others.
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Conservative social policy is based almost completely and entirely on guilt.
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Another pair of Kristian Kon Artist grifters!
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I had an abortion at age 19 and i was one of the best decisions of my life and have never regretted it once. And I wasn’t raped or drunk at a party when it happened. What I do regret is that I didn’t have the luxury of going to a doctor and had to have a back alley abortion and all the complications that came with it but I still don’t regret it. I wasn’t ready to have a child
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I offer help to women in need by supporting Planned Parenthood.
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Not to mention that if she had decided to give birth she would still be linked to her assaulter for at least the time it took to sign the adoption papers, or if she kept her child 18 years and shared custody and child support.
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She prefers government to make the choice for everyone.
Modern Republican conservatism.
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I have known other women who say similar things. Notably and not surprisingly, they tend to do it after they are in a stable marriage or past child-rearing age, when the decisions are easier to make or no longer apply at all.
I wonder if they realize that if they have children who they love and cherish that came after the abortion that they owe the very existence of those children to their choice to have the abortion. I say this because the fact is, their lives had to go precisely the way it did for their current children to exist. Any deviation, no matter how slight, would have altered the incredibly specific circumstances that led to the conception of their more current children. Also, they might not have met their husbands, or had the same relationship with them had they chosen differently.
Realistically, to wish the other child back is to wish for an altered present where their current children could not possibly exist.
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Just looked up this newbie Lee Chatfield. He’s finishing up his first term as a Representative from the 107 District, which is at the tippy-most counties of the lower peninsula and two counties across from the Mackinac Bridge in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. His dad was a minister. His wife is his high school sweetheart according to his Wikipedia page…They both attended a private Christian High School together. Obviously then, he had some knowledge and familiarity with her early years in high school, and has probably known about her abortion and her parents decision to give their consent to the procedure even as far back as those early days.
Also, the largest minority represented by his district are Native Americans, but for the most part it is a rural, predominantly white and probably a heavily religious district. I suppose, if they aren’t out hunting and suffering from extreme poverty and cold weather, they’re in church berating godless America and trying to count their own blessings. His district is some of the most beautiful in Michigan though I must say, especially in the UP and is to some degree relies heavily on tourism dollars.
He also attended Liberty U. for his masters and a private Baptist University for his bachelors. He’s holy-roller material through and through. Exclusively Christian education, no doubt from cradle to grave. No secular stuff for this guy. Surprised he wanted to get into government though, but isn’t that the way folks like these find a way to make their religious beliefs codified into laws? They never believe in the separation of Church and State. As far as I can tell, Lee Chatfield is Michigan’s male version of Michelle Bachman…What a pity.
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64? She looks like she’s 84
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That’s exactly what I was thinking as well.
Chatfield recounted her experience of being “taken advantage of” while intoxicated at a high school party and deciding to get an abortion after learning she was pregnant three weeks later. She called her choice “the worst of my life.”
Would you now be (I hope) happily married to a state legislator with a couple of wanted kids? Or would you be a broke single mother divorced from an alcoholic abusive man, derided by your neighbors as a slut?
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