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Activists march through Los Angeles in protest against the US Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion. PA

'A time of great danger': Abortion rights supporters and opponents map next moves

The Supreme Court on Friday ended the constitutional right to abortion in America.

A TEXAS GROUP that helps women pay for abortions has halted its work while it evaluates its legal risk under a strict state ban on termination.

In Mississippi, the state’s only abortion clinic continues to see patients while awaiting a 10-day notice that will trigger a ban.

Elected officials across the US have vowed to take action to protect women’s access to reproductive health care, while those against abortion promised to take the fight to new arenas.

Days after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling overturning Roe v Wade ended the constitutional right to abortion in America, emotional protests and prayer vigils turned to resolve as several states enacted bans and both supporters and opponents of abortion rights mapped out their next move.

In Texas, Cathy Torres of the Frontera Fund, a group that helps pay for abortions, said there is a lot of fear and confusion in the Rio Grande Valley near the US-Mexico border, where many people are in the country illegally.

That includes how the state’s abortion law, which bans the procedure from conception, will be enforced. Under the law, people who help patients get abortions can be fined and doctors who perform them could face life in prison.

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Torres said: “We are a fund led by people of colour, who will be criminalised first. We just really need to keep that in mind and understand the risk.”

She said abortion funds like hers that have paused operations hope to find a way to safely restart their work.

Travel out of state

Tyler Harden, Mississippi director for Planned Parenthood Southeast, said she spent Friday and yesterday making sure people with impending appointments at the state’s only abortion clinic know they do not have to cancel them right away.

Abortions can still take place until 10 days after the state attorney general publishes a required administrative notice.

Mississippi will ban the procedure except for pregnancies that endanger the woman’s life or those caused by rape reported to law enforcement.

The Republican speaker of the Mississippi House, Philip Gunn, said during a news conference on Friday that he would oppose adding an exception for incest. “I believe that life begins at conception,” he said.

Harden said she has been providing information about funds that help people travel out of state to have abortions.

Many in Mississippi were already doing so even before the ruling, but that will become more difficult now that abortions have ended in neighbouring states like Alabama.

Florida is now the nearest “safe haven” state, but Harden warned “that may not be the case for too much longer”.

‘New modern menace’

At the National Right to Life convention in Atlanta, a leader within the anti-abortion group warned attendees yesterday that the Supreme Court’s decision ushers in “a time of great possibility and a time of great danger”.

Randall O’Bannon, the organisation’s director of education and research, encouraged activists to celebrate their victories but stay focused and continue working on the issue.

Specifically, he called out medication taken to induce abortion.

He said: “With Roe headed for the dustbin of history, and states gaining the power to limit abortions, this is where the battle is going to be played out over the next several years.

“The new modern menace is a chemical or medical abortion with pills ordered online and mailed directly to a woman’s home.”

Protests against banning abortion broke out for a second day in cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City to Jackson, Mississippi.

In the LA demonstration, one of several in California, hundreds of people marched carrying signs with slogans like “my body, my choice” and “abort the court”.

Turnout was smaller in Oklahoma City, where about 15 protesters rallied outside the Capitol. Oklahoma is one of 11 states where there are no providers offering abortions, and it passed the nation’s strictest abortion law in May.

‘A wave of emotions’

Marie Adams, 45, who has had two abortions for ectopic pregnancies, called the issue “very personal to me”.

She added: “I have gone through a wave of emotions in the last 24 hours. It’s upsetting, it’s angry, it’s hard to put together everything I’m feeling right now.

“Half the population of the United States just lost a fundamental right. We need to speak up and speak loud.”

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Callie Pruett, who volunteered to escort patients into West Virginia’s only abortion clinic before it stopped offering the procedure after Friday’s ruling, said she now plans to work in voter registration in the hope of electing officials who support abortion rights.

Pruett, executive director of Appalachians for Appalachia, added that her organisation will apply for grants to help patients get access to abortion care, including out of state.

“We have to create networks of people who are willing to drive people to Maryland or to DC,” she said.

“That kind of local action requires organisation at a level that we have not seen in nearly 50 years.”

The Supreme Court’s ruling is likely to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

Since the decision, clinics have already stopped performing abortions in Arizona, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Women considering abortions had already been dealing with the near-complete ban in Oklahoma and a prohibition after roughly six weeks in Texas.

In Ohio, a ban on most abortions from the first detectable foetal heartbeat became law when a federal judge dissolved an injunction that had kept the measure on hold for nearly three years.

But in Minnesota, where abortion remains legal, governor Tim Walz signed an executive order shielding people seeking or providing terminals in his state from facing legal consequences in other states.

He has also vowed to reject requests to extradite anyone accused of committing acts related to reproductive health care that are not criminal offences in Minnesota.

“My office has been and will continue to be a firewall against legislation that would reverse reproductive freedom,” he said.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 2:26 PM

    If the yanks go any further backwards they’re going to bump into the DUP.

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    Mute FiannaFáilness FineGaelness
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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:00 PM

    @Sean Murnin: WASPS United!

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:09 PM

    @Sean Murnin: America says NO

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:19 PM

    @Brian MacCarthaigh: Did they? Must have missed when the American public voted on this.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:46 PM

    @Sean Murnin: wonderful bit of progress for humanity. Quite the rage over the desire to murder baby all the way up to full term.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:11 PM

    @Sean Murnin: I’d say most of us got what Brian was saying.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:12 PM

    @Dermot Moran: Fair enough Dermot, I’m sure you are relieved that you’ll never be forced to carry a FFA pregnancy to term. Oh wait…. Here’s the thing Dermot, a pregnancy that you are not directly involved in is none of your business, my business or anyone’s business. The only people this concerns is the parents and ultimately the lady carrying the child. It should be her CHOICE!

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:26 PM

    @Sean Murnin: Quite right, but people like Dermot don’t care about the real people making this choice under whatever very real circumstances bring them to consider it

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:20 PM

    @Dermot Moran: George Carlin has it right years ago. If someone walked into a maternity ward full of newborns and shot up the place with a rifle it would be all “thoughts and prayers” with zero action. It’s a different story when it comes to inflicting religious fundamentalism and moral grandstanding on women it seems.
    Also full term abortions? I smell a strawman…..

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    Jun 26th 2022, 11:05 PM

    @Sean Murnin: Intellectually garbage statement. If you believe that it is murder to abort a baby then of course it’s morally your business to say “no don’t kill babies”. You can disagree that abortion is murder, that’s fine. But it is incredibly ignorant or disingenuous to say those who think it’s killing babies should just mind their own business.

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    Jun 27th 2022, 3:56 PM

    @Dermot Moran: murdering a baby has always been against the law Dermot.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 2:37 PM

    Forced birth in a country with no baby formula, no healthcare, no maternity leave and systematic destruction of social welfare. The hypocrisy is off the charts.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 2:44 PM

    @Sylvia Power: it’s a catch 22 either way

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:13 PM

    @Sylvia Power: so if all those things were in place you would support an abortion ban?

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:20 PM

    @Seamus Mac: No, absolutely not. I’m pointing out the hypocrisy anti-choicers use by not supporting the policies I mentioned, while claiming to care about children.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:29 PM

    @Sylvia Power: pro life centres provide help for women in crisis such as payments & baby supplies. Planned parenthood provide terminations. You are conflating the pro life movement with government policy. They are not in charge of such policies.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:37 PM

    @Seamus Mac: how about you keep your hands off women’s bodies and out of our business tbh

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:56 PM

    @Sylvia Power: surely men should be allowed to have an opinion on abortion either way. Fathers should be entitled to an opinion also.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:07 PM

    @Teresa O’Halloran: they can have all the opinions they want, but they cannot force a pregnant person to keep a child because of their opinions. that’s kind of the whole point of choice. keep up Teresa

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:11 PM

    @Teresa O’Halloran: exactly

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    Jun 26th 2022, 7:32 PM

    @Sylvia Power: lack of baby powder does is never a reason for a mother to kill their offspring

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    Jun 26th 2022, 11:00 PM

    @Ivor McTin: that’s right wing extremism there! ;)

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    Jun 26th 2022, 11:32 PM

    @Ivor McTin: ‘offspring’?? Are we talking about frogs?!

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    Jun 27th 2022, 1:11 AM

    @Teresa O’Halloran: how dare you mention other people’s rights. They must be ignored to suit other agendas

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    Jun 27th 2022, 8:25 AM

    @Sylvia Power

    It’s a pregnant woman . Using the term pregnant person is insulting to biological women . If you support womens choices you should not contribute to diminishing their identity.

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    Jun 27th 2022, 2:22 PM

    @Aine O Connor: Of course I support women’s rights, I also happily support rights for trans and nonbinary people too

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:04 PM

    The danger has passed for human beings in the womb. 60 million abortions in the US since the 70’s.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:18 PM

    @Seamus Mac: “The danger has passed for human beings in the womb.”

    Really? Are you seriously claiming that abortions won’t take place in America anymore??

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:32 PM

    @Seamus Mac: and what about the women whose lives or health will now be jeopardised?

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:51 PM

    @Seamus Mac: Those who believe that a foetus is a human being have just been permitted to impose their beliefs on others with the force of law.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:53 PM

    @The Risen: Only professionally performed safe ones will stop happening. Dangerous back street abortions will become more common.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 5:27 PM

    The title of this article and comments by Biden and others suggesting that women are now in danger is absurd. Babies are not a threat to women! If an expecting mom’s life is in danger she will get the healthcare she needs. It’s abortion on demand that is being restricted. Protecting life not harming it. Life is precious and every life is equally valuable ❤️

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:03 PM

    @Sinéad Talbot: For instance there were 68 abotrions under the eight amendment where the was a danger to the life of the mother so thats is not the issue

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:11 PM

    @Sinéad Talbot: that’s a matter of opinion, and you are entitled to yours, but to me the life of a fetus is not even remotely equal in value to that of the cognisant, living, loved woman carrying it, if she does not want to, or can’t safely, continue with the pregnancy. It is not mine or your business to dictate to a mother/parents what is right for them.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:47 PM

    @Sinéad Talbot: Tell that to a teenager pregnant from rape with no medical insurance, no income, their education disrupted and their prospects destroyed. There are so many ways an unplanned birth can ruin lives.
    You may believe that an early foetus is a human being but that teenager may disagree and since neither can prove the point you have no right to impose your beliefs on that teenager. It’s her beliefs that count.
    Some believe that a baby isn’t fully human., a belief that makes high infant mortality easier to take.
    It cuts both ways too. If that teenager wants to stay the course and keep the resultant baby then nobody has a right to say she can’t.
    At least that’s my opinion.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 10:59 PM

    @Steve O’Hara-Smith: some believe a baby isn’t human? Wow, those people are psychopaths and this discourse around the value of human life is proof positive that the slippery slope is not a fallacy.

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    Jun 27th 2022, 6:56 AM

    @v39e84kK: No they’re not psychopaths, that kind of thinking stems from when infant mortality was high. Bear in mind that it is only in the last century or so that infant mortality has been below 30% anywhere.
    In more modern times there is debate over when a developing human becomes sentient. Few seem to think it is by birth.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 2:53 PM

    America gave the religious nuts to much respect and allowed them to shape a country based on their messianic twisted beliefs. It happened to us here as well but we’re on the road to recovery, thankfully. I feel genuinely sorry for the women there.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:16 PM

    @Maximus_Demonus: most reasonable people can see the pro life & pro choice views as normal acceptable positions. You seem to have a warped view of pro life people.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:45 PM

    @Seamus Mac: Most reasonable people disagree with pro life views hence why when put to a vote the pro life is in the minority. Please stop with this “most people” nonsense unless you can back it up. You’re in the minority. Except it

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:03 PM

    @Seamus Mac: Are these the same reasonable people that were figeting with their rosary beads whilst the rest of us voted for women’s healthcare rights. Reasonable people don’t impose their worldview onto others, reasonable people respect women.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:30 PM

    @Seamus Mac: Pro life people protesting at hospitals, intimidating women? Those are the actions of reasonable people?

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    Jun 27th 2022, 11:08 AM

    @Jo H: no, nor are people attacking pro life centres & intimidating judges in their homes. Whats your point?

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:03 PM

    “Land of the free” the biggest lie ever told. Freedom to shoot up schools with assault rifles is about all. Cesspit.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:14 PM

    @FiannaFáilness FineGaelness: school shootings are a separate issue. Why conflate the two?

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:07 PM

    @Seamus Mac: because it’s a mess of a country and everything that is wrong with the US is all mixed together in a soup of madness.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 7:32 PM

    @Seamus Mac: Not necessarily. Both issues are being driven by the republicans. They’re blocking stricter gun laws and now they’re blocking womens rights. I fear to think about what’s next on their list.

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    Jun 27th 2022, 8:38 AM

    @Stephen Deegan: sorry but mass shootings at schools & terminating your offspring are completely separate issues & the pro life & pro gun lobby are two different groups of people.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 5:48 PM

    Abortion hasn’t worked that well considering planned parenthood (the name is sick) is making huge money out of pain and suffering of women that seek its services. There has got to be a better way in 2022 to still be aborting life…… stopping heartbeats that are unwanted is a bit disgusting. Where are the foetus body buried? Late term Abortion is as disturbing as what happened in Tuam. #abetterway. Not a religious nut either.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 5:57 PM

    @Jim Casey: Planned parenthood is a non profit organisation.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 5:59 PM

    @Jim Casey: What would you suggest to a pregnant 14 year old girl that was raped by her uncle? What would you suggest to a woman who will die without having an abortion? What is this “better way” ? Why do people feel they are entitled to dictate what women can and can’t do.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:10 PM

    @Maximus_Demonus: women voted no as well so it’s not dictation always to be fair its a democracy. On that nasty situation you site …… of which accounts for less than 2 % of abortion services……btw……they are two very bad criminal offences and need to be dealt with vigorously by the law of the the land. There has to be a “better way”. Why would you be against a “better way” – free contraception, better education, harsh sentence for criminal matters that you mentioned and a society that doesn’t frown on pregnancy outside of marriage. Government subsidies to help poor families that have a pregnancy. Obviously abortion services being available hasn’t been the fix if numbers are still so high receiving its services…. which aren’t voluntary. Nothing in the USA is voluntary ffs

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:13 PM

    @The Risen: nothing in the USA is non profit ffs…… go on up the yard

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    Jun 26th 2022, 7:04 PM

    @Jim Casey: Planned parenthood is well known as a non profit organisation, so rather than the rectally extracted generalisation that you posted, please explain how it’s ‘making huge money out of pain and suffering of women that seek its services’

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    Jun 26th 2022, 7:23 PM

    @The Risen: they’ve got doctors and “health care professionals” they don’t work for zero…… spare the arrogance just because its your opinion it isn’t always right. That is my opinion and its not a generalisation to be fair. Its yonks years ago since Roe v wade ruling and yes 70 million abortions later suggests it’s not really successful.
    Now maybe the journal are paying you to have an opinion on most news feeds because you’re on every thing with a comment and I don’t suggests that you’re generalising. But I don’t have the time but I do think abortion do not empower anyone male or female…… its dreadful and sad fir those poor women who have to live with guilt ……. and no not Catholic guilt just guilt

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:02 PM

    @Jim Casey: So no, no actual evidence to back up your claim. There’s a surprise

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:08 PM

    @The Risen: weren’t planned parenthood harvesting babies tissue/organs & selling them?

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:10 PM

    @Maximus_Demonus: 1. Since Row V Wade newer developments. The morning after pill good for 14 days free from any chemist. 2. Why do people feel they are entitled to dictate what women can and can’t do…. the law dictates thet all the time.. For instance there were 68 abotrions under the eight amendment where the was a danger to the life of the mother so thats is not the issue

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:27 PM

    @The Risen: where the heck is your evidence…….. your making statement after statement. My evidence is that 70 million people have had abortions since 1970 in USA so abortions do not stop the issue of incest rape and underage sex…… its a blunt tool to rub out societal problems

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:42 PM

    @Jim Casey: Your ‘evidence’ has nothing to do with the claim you made and now you are trying to change the subject. F-, must try harder

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:46 PM

    @The Risen: nonsense my argument is simple……. find another way please ……. its not working

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    Jun 26th 2022, 9:27 PM

    @Seamus Mac: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pp-baby-parts-sale/

    Try getting some talking points that aren’t being spoonfed to you by the pro birth lobby. Bill Gates isn’t trying to microchip you with a tracking device either.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 9:27 PM

    @Jim Casey: You don’t have an argument. You have a claim that you can’t back up.

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    Jun 27th 2022, 12:14 AM

    @The Risen: that fact check is from snopes which has been shown to be left leaning in its conclusions. Also its conclusion is “mixture”. Perhaps you are being spoonfed.

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    Jun 27th 2022, 8:40 AM

    @The Risen: go away

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    Jun 27th 2022, 12:03 PM

    @Seamus Mac: https://oversight.house.gov/planned-parenthood-fact-v-fiction if you don’t trust snopes.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:50 PM

    The people who threw out Roe v Wade and those who celebrated it are not pro life, they are pro birth, they don’t seem to have any problems with school shootings or mass shootings, hypo crites the lot of them

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:07 PM

    @Pat Casey: yep they love school shootings, Shure didn’t old orange man say let’s have one everyday? God them evil rightwingers love a bitta oul Killin kids with guns, Trump personally killed 10 kids to showoff his new pistol the NRA bought him for his birthday. It was on CNN!!!!

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    Jun 26th 2022, 5:02 PM

    @v39e84kK: hypocrite.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:05 PM

    @Pat Casey: and gladly have a handful of money taken fron their wages to support same!

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    Jun 26th 2022, 2:33 PM

    This Texas law is unworkable….let’s see the state take on these big corporations when the enable women to travel..Hopefully thise companys will just pull out of Texas that will soften up some politicans…

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    Jun 26th 2022, 2:57 PM

    @David cotter: The reason big Company’s are there is because of the low Tax Rates Texas have. They’ll never be pulling out of Texas

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    Jun 26th 2022, 3:02 PM

    @David cotter: Those companies want to pay a little to abort a baby rather than a lot in maternity leave. It’s not a moral stand it’s disgustingly economic.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 4:05 PM

    And the US becomes even more fractured, who’d have thought that possible. It looks like the country could spiral out of control :(

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:24 PM

    @Paul Furey: The only thing uniting them is the wars they are conduction and the weapons they are selling throughout the world.

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    Jun 27th 2022, 8:49 AM

    There are too many extremists on both sides of the debate. What a woman who is in a state of panic and distress with an unplanned pregnancy needs is a set of guidelines outlying all her options for and against, and a compassion listening ear to support her whatever decision she decides to make. Whether we like it or not having to resort to back street abortions again ( and there would be plenty of people prepared to make money from this) is the worst possible scenario for any woman and may cause untold damage to the possibility of future pregnancies . Life is not black and white.

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