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Demsrule86

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

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 12, 2024, 03:49 PM

Aug 2024

pregnancy. I was delivered at 7 1/2 months because I had food poisoning and my baby died...it was a horrible experience. My doctor knocked me out...he was a kind man...this was in PA. Baby is dead, or has no brain (this happens...all that is there is a brain stem, or the life of the mother although honestly I knew only one woman who would have qualified and she refused it and took her chances. Both she and the baby lived. Please don't say crap like that as it is fodder for the far right.

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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 2024 OP

Sometimes people want an abortion at eight months, though, and they should be able to get them. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2024 #1

Disagree NoRethugFriends Aug 2024 #3

Those are the reasons people get abortions and why doctors will perform them at 8 months, so why does there need WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2024 #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 2024 #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 2024 #7

There is no time that a doctor can can preform an abortion. After birth it is called infanticide Maraya1969 Aug 2024 #2

Pretty much sums it up Johonny Aug 2024 #6