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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 06:52 AM
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36. Republicans tend to oppose "health of the mother" exceptions because
that often includes mental health, and they don't consider a woman's mental health to be a "good enough" reason. They couch it in their own spin, of course, but it boils down to the fact that they don't want women to be able to get abortions in order to avoid depression. In other words--they don't think that depression is a "real" illness. In their barbaric little minds, unless there's something they can see on an MRI or in a blood test, then it doesn't exist. Funny how they apply the strict "proof" standard to illnesses, but not to God. We're supposed to doubt mental illness because we can't see it on an x-ray, but believing in God without a single OUNCE of proof is a-okay by them.

It's rather sad to watch how clueless and confused these primitive moral and intellectual infants really are.
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