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Pro-Choice

dlk

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2. It's All About Keeping Women a Permanent Servant Class and Maintaining the Patriarchy

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Fri Mar 15, 2019, 01:12 PM

Mar 2019

Just think about it. Would American men ever stand for the same level of government interference into their health and reproductive choices? Too many Americans prefer to infantilize women. This is why in 2019, American women don't have equal protection under the law and over the course of decades, the ERA has not been passed by enough states to become law.

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Anti-choice is woman-hating. Each and every anti-choice argument has, at its heart, a profound hatre [View all] niyad Mar 2019 OP

Absolutely true. Ohiogal Mar 2019 #1

It's All About Keeping Women a Permanent Servant Class and Maintaining the Patriarchy dlk Mar 2019 #2

just look at the screaming when a legislator proposes controlling men's access to vasectomis, ED niyad Mar 2019 #4

"it really is that simple" handmade34 Mar 2019 #3

Bingo! Glamrock Mar 2019 #5

Yup! Hatred - and fear, too! 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2019 #6

It really is not "that simple" whathehell Mar 2019 #7

so, break it down for us where the baseline is NOT hatred for women, please. niyad Mar 2019 #8

No need, I think you're familiar with the complexities of the issue whathehell Mar 2019 #9

and the insults keep coming. nice try. niyad Mar 2019 #10

No insult intended.. whathehell Mar 2019 #13

YES! KT2000 Mar 2019 #11

as George Carlin said, "pre-born, you are golden. pre-school, you're fucked" niyad Mar 2019 #12