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DO Mess with Texas! | 224 comments (224 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Which just goes to show that the best way to reduce the number of abortions is sex ed in school and easy access to contraceptives (including the morning-after pill).

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 01:38:36 PM EST
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Re: DO Mess with Texas! (4.00 / 3)

WHAT!!! then people might start having sex for fun, and outside marriage, and then, sin of sins women might actually enjoy it and that would never do. </snark>

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 01:47:59 PM EST
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I'd hate to make comparisons to female genital mutilation or forcing women to wear burkas (particularly as someone (no, not the ET member of the same name!) is bound to misunderstand what I'm saying), but ultimately it all boils down to the same kind of thinking, doesn't it?

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 01:53:07 PM EST
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Re: DO Mess with Texas! (4.00 / 2)

Yes it does.

When Gudrun Schyman, party leader for the left party tried to express this in a speach 2002, it was instantly converted to "all men are taliban" in the media. So you are probably right in your parenthesis too.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 02:01:26 PM EST
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Re: DO Mess with Texas! (4.00 / 3)

Well in any sane society if you had what was in effect a parasite growing inside you that had a chance of killing you during its attempts to exit your body, then it would be considered self defence.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 02:03:36 PM EST
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