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"Anti-abortion", you are a fucking idiot. Why don't you read my post again since you missed the point.

I don't want to see ANY repulsive pictures just b/c I'm walking to class. Cow shit is all disgusting . . . should we put pictures up of it? Fucking moron.

It just depends on the person... one of my friends is staunchly against the morning-after pill... another guy I know is against the pill... Really just varies dependent on how extreme their beliefs are.

so are pro-lifers against the morning after pills? aka, when someone pops the morning after pills, is that considered an abortion?

It's a ring toss game.

>>Those are potential human lives<< Exactly, potential lives, it's still the woman's body though and the "potential life" is dependent upon her. And just because a woman decides to have a child doesn't mean they are pro-life. I am pro-choice, but I would not choose abortion for myself. Also, not all abortions are young women who carelessly have sex then run to get an abortion when they get pregnant. Most women are not careless and view abortion as an easy choice. I would never choose to get abortion, but I believe it's my right to make that choice since it is my body and my actual, not potential, life that is affected. And in many cases, it is only the woman that has to deal with the consequences of pregnancy, men can, and often do, easily escape the situation and consequences.

to all those who might be a little confused, i meant pro and kelly.

i couldnt agree with the last two posts more, they pretty much sums up the way that i feel about the whole deal. If you want to dictate what someone should do with themselves, why dont you try this first; FUCK OFF AND DEAL WITH YOUR OWN DAMN LIFE. (and the thing is the actual act of abortion disgusts me, and i probibly would never want a girl i got pregnant to do it but this is a free country, and you fuckin pro-lifers gotta deal with it)

man....for being pro-choice, 'anti-abortion' sure seemed pissy.

so how 'bout them new paper towels in RLM...fancy shit, eh?

PRO ABORTION all the way. Keep your nose in your own fucking business.

Thanking my mother might be relevant if I wasn't the most planned out conception in history. Neither myself nor my sister was an "accident". If you were born to a single mom or a couple that married only because you decided to come into existence, that's a relevant point. But married couples are often so much better equipped to deal with an unplanned pregnancy than a college student or high school student. Being pro-choice means that you're pro abortion rights. Being anti-abortion negates the ability to be pro-choice. Pro-choice has nothing to do with sex.

Besides, where do pro-lifers draw the line anyway? A literal abortion? The morning-after pill? Because, after all, you're blocking the possibility of a pregnancy. I can't dictate what the morals and values of other people are, and therefore I think they need to be able to decide for themselves. I also hold to the ideal that you can't make a final judgement re: whether you are pro-choice or pro-life until you've had to make that decision.

The reason you think the pictures are "uncalled for" is because they are offensive and disguisting to you. GOOD. That is the point. Abortion is not a political academic debate. It concerns dead human lives. If you are disguisted and offended by seeing dead human babies, maybe you will realize how real and disguisting abortion is. Those are potential human lives, but pro-"choice" people want you to see it as a mass of tissue so as to water it down and de-emphasize the fact that this is a beating heart we are stopping. Sorry, but anything with hands, arms, legs, and a heartbeat is not a "choice" for me. It's a human being, and the pictures you are so "offended" by are pictures of murdered human beings. You should be just as offended as if you saw pictures of dead babies who were 3 months old.

Oh, and when you get the chance, thank your mother for being PRO-LIFE. Otherwise you would just be another picture on the posterboard.

Sorry, I am a libertarian, but I am also pro-choice. I believe everyone has the right to CHOOSE whether to have sex. We all know the risks. I think it is irresponsible to CHOOSE to have sex and then have an abortion if you get pregannt. Sorry, but if you can't handle the responsibility of having a child, you should stick to oral sex. The choice is made at the moment you decide to have sex. You assume the risk that you might get pregnant. You can't just be irresponsible and then kill your baby later on.

I am curious to see if anybody has heard of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Have you? I haven't heard much discussion about it politically or in the general news.

That's exactly my point, those pictures are uncalled for, and we certainly should have to see them if we don't want.

Wake up, dude. PETA has pictures of dead and suffering animals in slaughterhouses all the fucking time yelling at me how I'm an evil person because, as an omnivore, I'm eating an animal that's lower than me on the food chain.

And I'll definitly take pro-lifers over the racial-whistleblowers any day for the simple reason that the pro-lifers actually have ground to stand on regarding their opinions and arguements (no matter how distasteful their tactics may be) while racial-whistleblowers aren't fighting for any real cause but only trying to garner money and support for themselves by using idiotic and wrong examples of so-called "rasicism."

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. Can you tell how incredibly far away I am from thinking kids are a good thing?

yeah, 80ft pictures of dialated vaginas would make my day!

"Maybe you should ask yourself why the abortion pictures disgust you so much. Dead babies SHOULD be offensive to everyone. It's easy to think about and debate abortion in an abstract sense, but when you see pictures of what it really is, sometimes it's not so easy to justify or support."

Well seeing a healthy birth of a baby is also quite disgusting but that doesn't mean we should put the bloody pictures of that when someone argues for pro-choice or whatever.

In the same sense, if there were a debate on whether someone should be able to shit outside or only on the toilet, we don't need to see pictures of piles of shit, much less 80' tall pictures, to drive in the point. It's just gross. Or let's say there's a vegetarian rally in Austin (why not, everyone else has rallied). Do you they need huge posters of the slaughtering process as described in The Jungle? No, you don't. It's disgusting and inappropriate to put on such a display that you cannot avoid seeing it.

Well, the guy wasn't exactly volunteering to help... hence the having to cough up the money on her own, which was kind of shitty.

I never denied that pro-choicers can be just as obnoxious... but telling me exactly what is morally wrong with me after I say "Sorry, I'm pro-choice" is only going to piss me off.

i keep referring the MAP as pill...i mean pills.

"cough up the $35"...sounds like it was a pain. i don't know, but i'd gladly pay the 35$. i already told my gf if she needed that pill, i'd pay for it. i'd hope other guys would do the same.

I agree some pro-life people can get a little overzealous, but I have seen just as many anti-abortion people (including Dana Cloud and Mia Carter, both UT professors) disrupt pro-life speakers and events.

It's not the pictures that disgust me--it's the jerkish attitude the pro-life posters take at times during that display that bothers me. And I've known many people who consider the morning-after pill to be a form of abortion.

And yeah Fat Tire, it's basically a really really strong birth control pill(s). That's why it makes some girls sick--they're not used to the high amounts of the horomones present in the pills. Dependent on your brand of birth control, you can sometimes just take five or six of those pills, then take five or six more 12 hours later. The five or six is a generic number--it varies from brand to brand. My friend's BC wasn't included in the list of those that can be used in place, so she had to cough up the $35.

so that morning after pill....is it basically a super strong birth-control pill?