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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:39 AM
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When I was in college my good friend use to argue with me about abortion
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 12:56 AM by Quixote1818
We would go round and round about it. After I graduated he started seeing this young woman and got her pregnant then decided he had changed his mind about abortion. Since he was a poor college student he didn't have any money to pay for an abortion so guess who he called to see if he could borrow the money? Yes, me of course.

To tell you the truth I didn't feel comfortable at all about financing the abortion as I felt partly responsible for it but went ahead and wired him the money as a friend. He did eventually pay me back. Abortion is not something I take lightly and I personally have taken every precaution possible to not get someone pregnant and have us both faced with that option.

This was a guy who was very sincere in is opposition to abortion until he was put in a position of having to raise a child with no money and still being in collage. This situation makes me wonder how people who are anti-choice would react if they were called and told their daughter is pregnant or that they got someone pregnant etc. and see just how many of them stay anti-choice when confronted with the realities of having a child when you are just starting out in life and can't afford it or the child is afraid to tell their family what they have done. I am sure there are many who would stay consistent but I bet there are quite a few that would decide it just wasn't something they could handle and until they are actually put in that situation they should be very cautious about passing judgment on others.

And as for John McCain, I take it he must be against RU-486 or any other kind of morning after pill that works after conception has occurred. Under his belief morning after pills are abortion.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:44 AM
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1. Unnecessary
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 01:21 AM by alcibiades_mystery
:-)
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:49 AM
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4. New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. nt
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:51 AM
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6. bloop
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 01:21 AM by alcibiades_mystery
:-)
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:51 AM
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5. i bet he means

...college. It's definitely a word you don't want to misspell...lol.


:eyes:
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:06 AM
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8. Here are a few more people
who spelled it wrong:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Collage+of+arts+and+sciences&btnG=Search


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Michael Hill, English, The University of Iowa Collage of Arts and ...
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:14 AM
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11. bloop
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 01:21 AM by alcibiades_mystery
OK...
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:23 AM
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13. So how many books have you had published?
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 01:26 AM by Quixote1818
You can buy one of mind at the link below.


I heard it all through Elementary school. "Oh your in the dumb class". I thought I had left those types of children behind but evidently not. Their are still a few around it seems.

Yes, those of us who are severely Dyslexic suck at spelling. I am sure their was a subject you sucked at as well. I won't try to act superior to you in that subject though. Don't much see the point.

And by the way, it's against DU Rules to point out spelling mistakes.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:35 AM
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14. One, actually
Working on the second now.

I was just messin' with ya. No need to get mad. I don't think you're dumb at all.
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:51 PM
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15. oh whatever

Cry me a river.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:44 AM
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2. McSanes? position is in reality LUDICRIS in view of our Growth Rate re population
We need to reach sustainability not continuing Growth...Try to Imagine if those 40 million abortions did not happen...there would be 50 000 000 more of us ....giving a total of 340 000 000 population....we would be in dire straits....

McNasty is NUTS
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:48 AM
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3. Many of these people were raised 'dualists'
They are trained to keep two incompatible thoughts in their mind with no issues. They are incapable of understanding hypocrisy.
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:51 AM
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7. I am so glad I am gay.
Neither me or my partner will never need an abortion so I will never have to make that decision.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:10 AM
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9. I always felt that Roe V Wade was pretty safe because of all the Senators
and Congressmen who fool around would want abortion to be legal and available if one of their girlfriends became pregnant.

But that was before the Religious Right became so powerful. Now I just figure that they get their way, they'll just send them to a country where it's legal.


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BklynChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:13 AM
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10. same exact thing happened to my so-called pro-life brother, my mother had to slide him
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 01:14 AM by BklynChick
money to pay for the abortion of his girlfriend while he was in high school. what a hypocrite! now, 15 years later, he's still pro-life at least to the outside world. :shrug: It's infuriating because so many people who are pro-choice say they personally wouldn't have an abortion but they don't feel it's their right to prevent someone else from having one. Yet people like my brother people espouse rather vehemently that no one should have one unless, of course, it affects them personally.
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:17 AM
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12. Do as I say, not as I do.
Way too many of those types in this world. :puke:
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:00 PM
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16. Most of the "pro-life" politicians could care less about actual abortions.
If they were honest most of them would admit that they would rather have the "issue" to whip up the anti-abortion voter than to actually ban abortions. Let's face it, except for abortion, the vast majority of lower middle class evangelicals have little in common with the republican party, certainly not enough to be the loyal voting block they are now.
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:03 PM
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17. choose life. nt.
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eshfemme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:10 PM
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18. This sums up in a story what lack of empathy pro-lifers have with their stance.
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 01:11 PM by eshfemme
What they're really saying is that they don't care about any difficult circumstances or what kind of people are involved, they just want to make people do what they want them to do. There's no regard for what an unwanted pregnancy actually entails and when it happens to them, most likely they would choose abortion too.

What they don't seem to get is that a pro-choice position is actually inclusive of a pro-life stance-- it's just that you can personally believe in not having abortions but you won't legislate the moral position of others.
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