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Dennis Donovan

(21,862 posts) Mon Aug 12, 2024, 04:28 PM Aug 12

Laraine Newman: If you think "the left" believes in abortion after birth or at 8 months, then you're just plain stupid. [View all]

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Laraine Newman
If you think “ the left” believes in abortion after birth or at 8 months, then you’re just plain stupid. That. Is. Not. A. Thing. If you went to Planned Parenthood and asked to have a an abortion for a child that could survive outside the womb, they would refuse.

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Laraine Newman: If you think "the left" believes in abortion after birth or at 8 months, then you're just plain stupid. [View all] Dennis Donovan Aug 12 OP

Sometimes people want an abortion at eight months, though, and they should be able to get them. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 12 #1

Disagree NoRethugFriends Aug 12 #3

Those are the reasons people get abortions and why doctors will perform them at 8 months, so why does there need WhiskeyGrinder Aug 12 #4

That is not true...abortion has never been available even in New York after 20 weeks unless something is wrong with the Demsrule86 Aug 12 #5

It's not "fodder for the far right." Several states don't have gestational limits on abortions, but very few of them WhiskeyGrinder Aug 12 #7

There is no time that a doctor can can preform an abortion. After birth it is called infanticide Maraya1969 Aug 12 #2

Pretty much sums it up Johonny Aug 12 #6