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Chris J. Rice's avatar

I know. Monumental rage ripples through me like uterine contractions for that young woman for all the women dying and harmed by murderous legislators.

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Lindsey Melden's avatar

Like an eighth sacrament. 💔

My heart breaks over so much, but especially that my mother is voting for him. She, who experienced violence and violation, is still voting for an oppressor because religion told her so. Weeping with you.

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Steve's avatar

Barbaric and appalling. Even Jesus Christ would be repulsed by Christianity as it's practiced today, at least in some quarters. It is no longer a religion of compassion.

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Sandra Yudilevich Espinoza's avatar

I daresay if it’s even religion any longer.

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Michelle's avatar

Joselli’s story broke my heart as well. I would have been her twenty years ago. “Christian” pro life virtues have sent us hurtling backwards. Please let next Tuesday be a giant step forward.

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Pixie's avatar

The Texas lawmakers who passed those repressive, mysogynists laws, should be charged with that young woman's murder.

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M. Layfield's avatar

I am so sick and tired of the religious zealots that lay judgement. They sure as hell have not studied The Bible.

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Elizabeth Aquino's avatar

Exactly. It's just gross.

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Colleen Sullivan's avatar

Thank you for posting, as a former NICU, post partum and antepartum nurse I am tragically sad to hear of this tragedy. Sharing on my FB page to influence female voters. Time for Roe v Wade the law of the land as per Kamala.

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Weeping beside you.

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Sabine's avatar

This sad story is almost identical to what happened to Savita, a young woman in Ireland, who was denied the appropriate intervention by the Catholic hospital regulations in 2012. Her tragic and completely avoidable death caused an outcry that in the end resulted in a change to the Irish constitution making abortion legal at last. At the time, Catholic Ireland was blamed and rightly so for its Draconian and medieval legal situation and the rule of the Catholic church was compared to the Taliban. It was the hard work of the women of Ireland that brought about the necessary change. We have work to do, all over the world. The lives of women are nothing to men thirsty for power.

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susan t. landry's avatar

unfortunately, the answer to your opening question is YES. absolutely horrrifying what has happened in our lifetime: decade after decade the endless degradation of women and girls. i remember as a young teenager how embarrassing it was to have to deal with menstruation. what an innocent i was. i had no idea how aggressively women would be robbed of their selfhood, their right to determine what could or could not be done to their own bodies.

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Sandra Yudilevich Espinoza's avatar

I love the expression, I abide with you. What a great way to relay understanding and so much more.

I too rage against the night, to fight against the horrors raining down on us. May we prevail.

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Cheryl Jacobs's avatar

Gutted

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Suzi Banks Baum's avatar

Yes. It is okay. With you. xos

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Mary Moon's avatar

I cannot believe we have come to this and the entire country is trembling on the verge of it being even worse if we can imagine that possible.

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helena lipstadt's avatar

Thank you for your passionate words, Elizabeth.

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Elf's avatar

I don’t know. I don’t know.

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