The Unlikely Women Fighting for Abortion Rights

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Kate Zernike: The end of Roe has turned women who terminated pregnancies for medical reasons into a political force.

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If abortion hadn't become the preferred (and irresponsible) option for birth control, we likely wouldn't be having these discussions.

#1 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-05-29 09:52 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

If Republicans weren't misogynistic, we wouldn't be having these discussions.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-29 09:55 AM | Reply

If abortion hadn't become the preferred (and irresponsible) option for birth control

Abortion isn't "the preferred method of birth control," -------. Something like 45 million US women take birth control pills; meanwhile there are something like 600k abortions in the US annually. Why are Republicans so allergic to facts? Why do you have to lie about literally everything?

#3 | Posted by JOE at 2024-05-29 10:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Why do you have to lie about literally everything?

#3 | POSTED BY JOE

Why ask him? He'd lie about it.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2024-05-29 10:04 AM | Reply

"If abortion hadn't become the preferred (and irresponsible) option for birth control ... "

Tell us you're willing to lie for the cause without using those specific words.

#5 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-05-29 10:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If Republicans weren't misogynistic, we wouldn't be having these discussions.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-29 09:55 AM | Reply | Flag:

^ Example of a coat hanger abortion gone wrong.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-05-29 01:24 PM | Reply

#3 | Posted by JOE at 2024-05-29 10:03 AM | Reply

#5 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-05-29 10:32 AM

How many abortions are performed anually?
How many abortions are performed anually in order to save the mother's life or terminate a pregnancy that will produce a disabled child?

How many were performed for rape or ------? And how many of those accusers turned their abuser?

Your turn

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-05-29 01:33 PM | Reply

#7 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

Who gives a shht.

It's not your body.

It's not your life.

It definitely shouldn't be your choice.

Idiot.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-05-29 01:38 PM | Reply

How many abortions are performed anually in order to save the mother's life or terminate a pregnancy that will produce a disabled child?

How many were performed for rape or ------? And how many of those accusers turned their abuser?

#7 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

More than enough to prove that MAGA's little sexual jihad is cruel, sadistic, and unworkable.

Today's theme has settled into what pigs you people are, and how you seem perfectly OK with being oinkers.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2024-05-29 01:40 PM | Reply

POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You people have no morality, and so occupy no moral high ground. You just want what you want.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2024-05-29 01:42 PM | Reply

#7 You can look those numbers up yourself. And the number of women who take pills for birth control will still eclipse the number of women who "use abortion for birth control" by orders of magnitude. Which means your claim that abortion is "the preferred method of birth control" remains a stupid baseless lie.

#11 | Posted by JOE at 2024-05-29 01:43 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"How many abortions are performed annually?"

A lot less than use birth control ... at least according to Actual Math.

What kind of math were YOU using?

#12 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-05-29 01:46 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

What I find funny is the bodily autonomy hypocrisy of Republicans.

Vaccines can save lives but they don't want to be forced to get them.
But a woman CAN be forced to carry a baby for 9 months and can't get an abortion even if it threatens her health.

Under the Republican abortion argument, your bodily autonomy ends when it threatens another life.

Ergo: Forced harvesting of organs, like kidneys where you only need one, to save those in need of a new kidney SHOULD be legal under Republican policy.

#13 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-05-29 01:58 PM | Reply

Where did our resident mathematician go?

#14 | Posted by JOE at 2024-05-30 08:16 AM | Reply

What kind of math were YOU using?

#12 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-05-29 01:46 PM | Reply | Flag

I simply asked the questions since I was called a liar. Not one of you clowns could answer the questions with anything more than ---- like "a lot" "more than" "many" "a bunch"

Numbers anyone? Here's your chance to prove me a liar.

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-05-30 01:14 PM | Reply

" I simply asked the questions "

The fact you don't know more people use birth control than have abortions is on YOU, Clueless.

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-05-30 01:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I simply asked the questions

Calling abortion "the preferred method of birth control" is not a question, it's a declarative statement. Go ahead retread, back up your BS.

#17 | Posted by JOE at 2024-05-30 03:24 PM | Reply