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Jeri in Tx's avatar

It may be to save the mother's life. If you've ever been with child, you'd know this. You have to keep a medical option on the table. Just because it was smooth sailing up until your 25th week doesn't mean there won't be surprises down the road.

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knowltok's avatar

I fear my rhetorical question of why was misinterpreted. I was suggesting that those saying that dems want no restrictions should ask why. The implication I was going for was that there were very good reasons.

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Jeri in Tx's avatar

My misunderstanding - apologies. It wasn't very clear, and to be honest, it didn't sound like you.

republicans, evangelicals, SBA people will never ask that question because they don't want to hear the answer. They have been asked. The only life they think worth saving is the baby's. It is right back to the olden days when women dying in childbirth was just "God's will".

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Kate Fall's avatar

Women were talking about them before Dobbs, but I found it hard to get people like my husband interested. Even here, it was like, oh abortion won't really bring out voters, it's not that important.

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Tracey Henley's avatar

IтАЩm sorry, your insistence that communications failures are DsтАЩ faults is truly maddening. Medical assns have been active PRE-DOBBS, Planned Parenthood and NARAL have been active; SEX ED and reproductive biology taught in high school *should* cover basic female biology so ppl know what ectopic pregnancies are -- but every single educational effort has been opposed by the right to life folks; PP and NARAL and other medical/educational groups are routinely defunded, shut out of the discourse and undermined by pro-lifers and the noise and chaos they provide & promote.

If you -- or anyone else here -- had no clue what rolling back abortion provisions would mean for the rest of us, thatтАЩs not on Ds.

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