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htotheomo
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
To women (the only people who should be asked): Would you rather have an option or no options at all?

Sorry, men don't count in this, and, unless you're willing to concede your entire life to this child, don't give me any grief.
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Peter Feld
05/16/09

@htotheomo: Maybe, but it's a myth that women are more supportive of abortion rights than men; they aren't.
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Peter Feld
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
The question is bad on its face because it accepts the branding phrases of each side. "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" are message points (like "affirmative action" and "freedom fighters") chosen for marketing purposes and, often, to obscure the details of the underlying position. There's a surprisingly high number of non-politically-oriented people out there that hear these phrases and don't even realize what they're about. (I, for one, avoid calling myself "pro-choice," because I think it's a wimp-out. I'm pro-abortion.) In a matchup like this, "choice" is at a semantic disadvantage, because what do most people consider the higher good: "choice" or "life"? And there are better, more accurate questions that have been used over time to assess attitudes toward abortion. Shame on Gallup for passing this off as research.
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souldecirce
05/16/09

@Peter Feld: I use the terms "pro abortion rights" and "anti abortion rights." Not as as simple as the prevailing slogans, but they shouldn't be.
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Peter Feld
05/16/09

@souldecirce: Yes, that's very on point - although from a research (as opposed to ideological) perspective, the word "rights" is a little loaded; the anti side wouldn't consider them to be "rights."
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
I'm pro-life. Life of the mother. Womb cells should not be the boss of me or any other woman. How's that for funny?
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Phyllis Nefler
05/16/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: I think you should work on the delivery.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
05/16/09

@Phyllis Nefler: @Kitten_Witawip: as long as I'm not pushing a 6-8 lb. watermelon out of my [thank you and goodnight!].
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OMG! Ponies!
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
I'm not pro-life.

I hate life in all forms, from unborn babies, to bacteria. Which is why I have spent the past 12 years putting in place a plan to end all life on Earth. Nothing will be spared. Not even amino acids.

Failing that, I have sabotaged the Large Hadron Collider so that when it is activated, it will create a black hole powerful enough to rend space-time asunder.

I hope this answers the Gallup Poll question sufficiently. Death to the world!
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bosskev
05/16/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Sabotaged the LHC so it creates a space-time destructive black hole? I thought that was its purpose. Or in your meddling have you unwittingly now just set it up so that all it does is play a nice game of chess?
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unclevanya
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
Fox News trumpeted this yesterday, using it to lead into other stories as if it is relevant to any topic.

I call shenanigans also.
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LucilleMcGillicuddy
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
I call shenanigans. I would like to hear the questions they asked. You can get

someone to agree with almost anything if you pose questions in a certain way.
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bananaballs
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
This made me sleep easier [www.fivethirtyeight.com]
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ninety_nine
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
Dude, abortion is always funny.
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labyrinthine IS DOING THIS
05/16/09

@ninety_nine: agreed. I was in stitches when I had mine!
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Kitten_Witawip
05/16/09

@ninety_nine:

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Phyllis Nefler
05/16/09

@labyrinthine: Nono, that was your c-section!
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Moff
05/16/09

@ninety_nine: Especially if the doctor is wearing clown shoes.
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unclevanya
05/16/09

@Kitten_Witawip:
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Trulymadlyme
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
Jezebel had a post on this the other day. It seems like the poll was flawed because the question regarding pro-life could be a personal one and have nothing to do with whether the government should outlaw access to abortion for all women everywhere.
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Private Hangnail
05/16/09

In reply to Abortion: Not As Funny As I'd Like It To Be
Well, Gallup Poll, me and my pro-choice friends screen our phone calls.
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The Real JR
01/23/09

In reply to Obama Stars in Pro-Life Ad
Also, it's really quite offensive because what they're saying is that in most instances, a white woman pregnant by a black foreigner in the sixties would have just aborted and moved on. So yeah that's really classy to remind someone of how they should have been aborted.
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The Real JR
01/23/09

In reply to Obama Stars in Pro-Life Ad
Meanwhile, I've always felt that George W. Bush's mom should have swallowed him...

So, yes, I'm totally Pro-Fellatio. Where's my lobby?
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Mediahohoho
01/23/09

In reply to Obama Stars in Pro-Life Ad
This child will grow up in a stable home with an authoritarian father and a distant mother. He will be conscripted into war where he will be gassed by the enemy, causing him a lifetime of gastro-intestinal misery. He will fail as a painter but succeed as an author, popularizing a peculiar mustache style along the way. He will found a political party and be a famous anti-smoker, vegetarian and leader of his country.

Fucking

Sometimes it shouldn't be for procreation

Fixed.
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Wrapitup
01/23/09

@Mediahohoho: He will massacre gays and Jews. Whether that was good or bad is still up for debate. Mel Gibson, unofficial spokesman, is out of the office at the moment and can't be reached for comment.
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Robert Synnott
01/23/09

@Wrapitup: Also, gay Jews. (Apparently there were variants of the yellow star to designate gay Jews, communist Jews, and even Jehovah's Witness Jews - there's a photo of one of the official charts somewhere).

However, when Stephen Fry aborted him it didn't work out so well; see [en.wikipedia.org])
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Mediahohoho
01/23/09

@Wrapitup: If you ask my ex-father-in-law (same hometown) that bit is still up for debate and, even if true, totally counter-balanced by full employment and the invention of the Autobahn.
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Mediahohoho
01/23/09

@Robert Synnott: See also: Gypsies, Slavs and political dissidents. I think what we can all agree on here is that he gave birth to the state of Israel, which makes him a hero for God botherers everywhere (see: Hagee, John).
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Wrapitup
01/23/09

In reply to Obama Stars in Pro-Life Ad
What if the baby you didn't abort grew up to be Osama Bin Laden?
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aftercancer
01/23/09

In reply to Obama Stars in Pro-Life Ad
I hate this ad and I have minimal tolerance for the people who put it out. If you are really Pro Life and not anti choice, pro fetus or anti woman than you would be pushing for increases in healthcare funding, social services assistance and maternity leave. Oh and a little REAL sex education and family planning would probably help too.
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hatey
01/24/09

@aftercancer: Also, the public shaming that pregnancy can be.

Seriously. I think some pro-lifers just want to know who the sluts are.
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