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    Not Yet Rain: Ethiopian Women Struggle To Obtain Abortions
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    Image of Sophie needs to study...damn Sophie needs to study...damn
    04/20/09

    In reply to Not Yet Rain: Ethiopian Women Struggle To Obtain Abortions
    What I find most upsetting is not access to abortion--she has the legal right to an abortion but in country that lacks the resources to provide it upon demand--but that she was raped and her perpetrator was not punished.
    This girl would not have been in this position had she not been raped! F the conversation about access to contraceptives in her case because that would not have prevented her attacker from raping her.
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    04/20/09

    In reply to Not Yet Rain: Ethiopian Women Struggle To Obtain Abortions
    I've said it before and I'll say it again: Abortions save lives.
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    04/20/09

    In reply to Not Yet Rain: Ethiopian Women Struggle To Obtain Abortions
    I'm surprised that this post didn't garner a little more passion and interest.
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    04/20/09

    @Samanthrax is Sarcastic: Perhaps because she hasn't been in an Oscar winning movie?


    (Totally not saying that sympathy for Rubina Ali is unjustified or wrong, I'm just saying...)

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    04/20/09

    In reply to Not Yet Rain: Ethiopian Women Struggle To Obtain Abortions
    Yet another reason why I support abortion rights. In such an impoverished place, having babies brings no good to young women who are shunned already. Population control solves so many problems. There are just too many people having kids they can't support. Sigh.
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    04/20/09

    @graciousplum: Add "population control" to my list of phrases that makes me extremely uncomfortable. Population control is not the answer, here.
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    04/20/09

    @graciousplum: I would also like to add that a lot of families in such impoverished places survive solely because they have large families.
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    04/20/09

    @Samanthrax is Sarcastic: I say it is, and this is not an argument for eugenics, as I'm sure some may take it. Women should have easy access to contraception and pregnancy termination everywhere- especially in places like Africa, where there is too much hunger, unemployment, and disease. The same can be said for cities in America, too. Babies should not be born to unwilling mothers who can't support them.
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    04/20/09

    @Samanthrax is Sarcastic: thanks, let me echo your sentiment, and add that "having babies brings no good" is probably something for the mothers of those babies to speak to, not for us to decide for them. Safe abortion access is critical, as is being supportive of struggling women who choose to have babies.
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    04/20/09

    @graciousplum: Babies not being born to unwilling mothers is not the same as population control. And there are a lot of things that should happen, but don't.
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    04/20/09

    @Samanthrax is Sarcastic: EXACTLY. In an impoverished area, the larger your family is, the more recources you may have. I am not in any way saying that women should have babies for that reason, but I also get a chill when I hear the term "population control." Fuck many pro-lifers see abortion as population control.....so identifying abortion with population control in any country makes me extremely uncomfortable.
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    04/20/09

    @graciousplum: I think the phrase population control does not typically have the meaning which you are using. I don't think offering access to safe and affordable abortion services is the same thing as population control.
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    04/20/09

    In reply to Not Yet Rain: Ethiopian Women Struggle To Obtain Abortions
    Wow. Hats off to these women let a camera follow them while trying to find a safe abortion. That shows major personal strength.
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    04/20/09

    @million.dollar.mouth.: *for letting a camera crew.....
    sorry.
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    04/20/09

    In reply to Not Yet Rain: Ethiopian Women Struggle To Obtain Abortions
    Safe abortion is what is key. A desperate woman will find a way to have an abortion. It's high time the government wrapped their brains around that and made abortion legal and safe.
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    04/20/09

    In reply to Not Yet Rain: Ethiopian Women Struggle To Obtain Abortions
    Ipas is such a great organization. Give them your money or at least your love.
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    04/20/09

    In reply to Not Yet Rain: Ethiopian Women Struggle To Obtain Abortions
    Does Sarah Palin know about this?
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