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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:07 PM Feb 2014

Once Pregnant Its Your Church's Baby - Religious Right Dream To Control Women

That is the goal of the fundamentalists. To pass laws that will have all a woman's right to control her health once she is pregnant.

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Once Pregnant Its Your Church's Baby - Religious Right Dream To Control Women (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2014 OP

See the movie "Philomena"? JaneQPublic Feb 2014 #1

I think that second line would read better like this el_bryanto Feb 2014 #2

Isn't this the same church that worships an unwed mother as being the mother of Jesus? RC Feb 2014 #3

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)

1. See the movie "Philomena"?

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:46 PM

Feb 2014

That was based on a true story of an Irish woman whose baby was taken by the Catholic Church in Ireland.

See the Wiki entry on the Magdalene Asylums (Laundries):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_laundry

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

2. I think that second line would read better like this

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:50 PM

Feb 2014

To pass laws that will have all a woman's right to control her health taken away once she is pregnant.

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RC

(25,592 posts)

3. Isn't this the same church that worships an unwed mother as being the mother of Jesus?

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:51 PM

Feb 2014

Why, yes it is. 'cause if she were wed when she got pregnant, it would be adultery or cheating on her husband with god.

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