Discussion: GOP Rep On Abortion: 'The Last Issue That Tore Us Apart Like This Was Slavery' (VIDEO)

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Sorry dude. Republicans are the only ones tore up over this one, and your side is losing. Badly.
BTW- Your political antecedents were on the pro-slavery side. And yes… I know they were southern democrats back then.

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Still waiting for Trent Franks (R-AZ) to condemn the displaying of the Confederate Flag and acknowledge that the Civil War was about “SLAVERY” not about “States Rights”.
crickets, crickets.

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The GOP :heart: Abortion. They never want it to go away - it riles up their fundamentalist base so they’ll vote against their own economic interests.

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"the foundational core principal that made this country what it was is that we believe that all of us are created, and that makes us equal.”

So true but you left out the part about we’re all created equal but some are more equal than others.

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Nope. Not even close. Although bonus points for equating Black people with fetuses. That is a very winning argument.

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If only there were ways to prevent pregnancies and an organization to provide that information to people.

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One of the beautiful things about the Pope’s visit was how he revealed these “pro-life” advocates for the cafeteria-style phonies that they are.
The reason these issues are so divisive is the Republicans are babies, each and every time they lose.
Grow up.

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IT Was MORE LIKE Hitler WHO TReaTED the JEws LIKE they Weren’t HUMaN. And BEcaUSE Hitler.

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Trent Franks is a smarmy little assgasket who couldn’t find his own ass with both hands, a flashlight, a road map, a search warrant, and three people to help him.

He almost makes Jason Chaffetz look vaguely bright.

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Fool.

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You think he’d be angry about fetal alcohol syndrome.

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Actually, it’s not the same thing.

They didn’t say ‘there’s no person here.’ What they SAID—and it’s in Chief Justice Roger Taney’s opinion in Dred Scott–that the black man has no rights that a white man is bound to respect. And not unborn blacks. ADULTS. What they SAID was that Blacks were inherently inferior, no matter what their age. What they SAID was that slavery was GOOD for Blacks because white people could raise their heathen asses to a level of civilization they could never achieve on their own. That’s what they SAID.

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it sounds like Mr Franks is hellbent on enslaving women as baby ovens both of which will then be completely ignored once the oven is cleared…

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“There is a person there, and if we don’t allow them to be born, as God intended, then they won’t be available later for us to send off to some pointless war in some country whose name I can’t even spell”, added Franks.

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All the passengers on Trent Franks’ Smile Train are very, very sad about God’s unborn little angels.

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yet the majority of american voters disagrees with you. Manufactured…

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well they are the one’s that want to covet women’s bodies, as if they were slaves.

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It’s like slavery in that there’s a small group of bigoted powerful white males who are taking 40 years to come around to the rest of society’s thinking on this issue.

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Don’t confuse poor ole Trent with facts. That ain’t nice, now is it. And it sure ain’t NorDakota nice.

Once upon a time, I thought Roe v. Wade was a sound, well-reasoned decision. Well, actually, I still think it’s a sound, well-reasoned decision. What I didn’t expect was a shit-storm from idiots who decided that because they wouldn’t (the XX types) or couldn’t (the XY types) have an abortion, no one else should be able to have one either.

The frightening thing is that we are in the process of regressing back to the status before Roe v. Wade. Back then, an abortion could be obtained legally if it was medically necessary. Today, apparently not so much. Regardless of medical necessity, women are expected to find an angel like the late Dr. Tiller to help them. Any GYN ought to be able to provide that service: far too few are willing.

I suppose that we should have left it to those great Laboratories of Democracy, the States, to figure it out for themselves. It’s much more difficult to make the point about safe when far too few people are left who remember the days of back-alley abortionists. I’m not old enough to remember it myself, but my older cousins do.

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