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In reply to the discussion: Her Body Migrant [View all]

vixengrl

(2,686 posts)
2. Thank you.
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 12:47 AM
Apr 2015

The Hyde language inserted dubiously into the bill on human trafficking has been done to signify to religious zealots while abandoning the real situation of pregnant women whose bodies have been used (Even if funding comes from confiscated funds from the traffickers themselves, sidestepping the taxpayer-funding question utterly) Once again, anti-abortion zealots are creating a standard where women have to jump through hoops to prove their qualification for care. I was inspired by the dignity these women deserve despite the gutless kowtowing to the religious right assholes that they are subjected to by mostly male jackasses who cannot even fathom the horrors these women know, because if they did, their "concern" would certainly angle another way. I can't not consider their experiences, and be shocked at people denying them reproductive care on the basis of denying the obvious.

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Her Body Migrant [View all] vixengrl Apr 2015 OP
It's lovely; thank you! K&R CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2015 #1
Thank you. vixengrl Apr 2015 #2
Powerful. nt No Vested Interest Apr 2015 #3
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