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What kind of person forces a woman to have a child who’s internal organs are external?

What kind of person makes a 15 year old raped girl have a back street abortion (and die a week later from the infection) because she’s too ashamed to tell her parents, and she can’t have one legally without their consent?

What kind of American tells a Kuwait woman she’s not allowed access to emergency contraceptive?

One more: One kind of person tells a mother living on $8000 a year with three children that her middle, 11 year old daughter is not allowed to have an abortion; even though the child had no idea (due to lack of sex education) that such a thing would occur.

Remember, the March was to prevent these things from happening. It wasn’t about killing babies. It was about defending the rights and lives of those in this world.  Yes there were fanatics, but there are on both ends.  In such an event you must dive in head first - you must be extreme to grab attention otherwise who’s going to take you seriuosly?

Besides The Black Roots are a spoken word performance group. It’s their duty to go to extremes.  Don’t over analyze the actions of people in the thrill of the moment, because it was easy to get swept into.  Look also at the positive feelings, don’t focus on the negative.

What kind of person forces a woman to have a child who’s internal organs are external?

What kind of person makes a 15 year old raped girl have a back street abortion (and die a week later from the infection) because she’s too ashamed to tell her parents, and she can’t have one legally without their consent?

I’d be willing to vote for a law that allowed abortions in the instances of rape, incest or severe medical disfigurement (and I mean severe, not just cosmetic).  Unfortunately, abortions in instances like these account for a tiny minority of the abortions actually performed.  Most abortions are obtained by women who got pregnant unexpectedly and do not want the responsibility of a baby.

What kind of American tells a Kuwait woman she’s not allowed access to emergency contraceptive?

Kuwait isn’t America.  While I don’t like to see babies being killed anywhere in the world, my vote doesn’t count there so I’m not going to trouble myself about it.

One more: One kind of person tells a mother living on $8000 a year with three children that her middle, 11 year old daughter is not allowed to have an abortion; even though the child had no idea (due to lack of sex education) that such a thing would occur.

What kind of a mother allows her 11 year old into a situation where she could get pregnant?  I don’t care how poor this mother is, she has some responsibility.  But if an 11 year old got pregnant then I’d have to say that it probably falls into one the the three categories I mentioned above.  As for sex education, that’s an entirely different issue from abortion.

And what’s the difference if the person on stage screaming “cunt” at the top of her lungs is part of a performance group or is a political activist?  Bottom line, if you act like an ass I’m not going to listen to what you have to say.  Same goes for the anti-abortion activists.

If protests like these were truly about obtaining abortion rights for rape victims and the medically disfigured then I’d be out there marching too.  But they’re not.  They’re about women who don’t want babies killing them to avoid responsibility.  And that, my friend, will never, ever be right no matter how you try and justify it.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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