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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 09:16 PM
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If you can require separate riders for abortion why can't you demand riders for birth control or
Aids or stds or alcohol related illnesses or obesity? Can society target procedures for those things associated with "sins"? Isn't this a slippery slope?
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 09:21 PM
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1. I'm thinking they'll never be rider forbidding doctors to spend federal reimbursement funds
On scotch, steak dinners and cigars at the country club.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 09:23 PM
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2. Lol.
Oh so true.
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 09:25 PM
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3. I'm sure that will be next.
People are fooling themselves if they are secretly speculating that this rider idea is only going to go towards abortion and they don't have to worry about their shit. Worry. Abortion is only the pilot episode for the new series.
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 09:33 PM
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4. Boy, is it ever!
And that slope is getting slippier every damm day.
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katandmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 09:50 PM
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5. It's only female reproductive rights that threaten the male religious right.
That is the real issue here.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 09:56 PM
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6. +1
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 11:14 PM
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7. If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 11:35 PM
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8. Yes, attach a rider for Viagra, Cialis and Levitra!
It's only fair.
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