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[apocalypsos]

Cops: Teens ended pregnancy with a baseball bat -- Remember, kids, legal and safe abortions are bad. That's why, if you do end up a pregnant teen, you should have your boyfriend whack you in the stomach with a baseball bat.

Meanwhile, House Republicans want to change party rules to ensure that DeLay retains his post if a Texas grand jury indicts him as it did with three of his political associates. See, kids? You can never be too big a hypocrite. :)

Also, should Canada indict Bush and charge him with war crimes? On one hand, I loathe him enough to root for the Canadians to do it. On the other hand, he is our President, like it or not, and if they indict him for war crimes, that reflects well on us ... or, you know, not.

EDIT: The United States laid down the gauntlet to Europe Wednesday by saying the responsibility for trimming the U.S. current account deficit cannot rest on the U.S. alone and other countries must help by boosting demand. -- "I screwed up, so you have to help me." *eye roll*

Comments

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

I think the argument would be that even though it is legal - people are still doing these heinous things - so what is the difference.

Personally I think it's absolutely criminal what those teenagers did.

[fyrdrakken]

Legal, maybe -- obtainable, no. A coworker at my last job found out she was pregnant the week she graduated high school. She wanted to get an abortion but couldn't get to the clinic past the protesters. And many states have a law that teenagers seeking an abortion must at least prove parental notification, if not actually obtaining consent.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Don't clinics have 'guards' so any protestors who doesn't know their place can't intefere?

[maechi.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the majority of clinics but my local clinic doesn't have guards. They have escorts -- normal people who volunteer their time to come & help women through the crowds.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Ditto to the one I went to. No guards. Just volunteers and family to make sure people got in safely.

[fyrdrakken]

In all fairness I could be misremembering what she said precisely, or by "couldn't get through" she might have meant, "I saw all the protestors -- or just heard about what they do, or saw them on TV -- and just didn't want to try it." The point being this was an 18-year-old girl -- of age and therefore not needing parental consent -- who nonetheless was sufficiently intimidated by the pro-lifers to decide an abortion was unobtainable.