"you couldn't get a prescription for the Pill unless you were married" OMFG! I didn't know that happened! That's just fked up!
One thing that always gets my goat about people bagging on about abortion is that childbearing can be dangerous. My sister fell pregnant (even with contraceptives) and was so ill so quickly that doctors said she should abort as soon as possible or it would almost definitely kill her. Soon afterwards, she had a miscarriage.
Women in our family have notoriously bad hormones. The same thing happened with my mother when she was pregnant with me, she was told to abort. She decided that she wouldn't. Barely a few days afterwards, she had to have a hysterectomy.
This doesn't change my mind that abortion is bad. This only reinforces my belief in choice.
In 1973, my mother was pretty inappropriately treated trying to get the pill in the month before she was going to marry my dad. The story she told me showed the snippet in Mad Men on that was not by any means a distortion.
Are you saying that women vote based on the attractiveness of the candidates? Wrong and a bit shallow. Julia Gillard is my local member but I didn't vote for her because she's a cute redhead. I voted because she's a smart, compassionate, incisive cute readhead ;-)
No I'm not saying that at all. I pretty much think I was saying the opposite whilst mocking his appearance since he seems to be putting that forward and on stage for me to notice and comment on.
Boo to being a swinging voter! Cheer to hating Abbott!
In all honesty I can never imagine how the Libs could *ever* be a more progressive party than Labour when it comes to women's issues (or any other). But I could be wrong.
Oh sure, I'm not saying you should vote on anything other than the issues.
I always vote on the issues. But I'm nowhere near a swinging voter because my interpretation of how the two parties treat the issues consistently comes down in the one camp. I would turn my vote around shamelessly tomorrow if the Libs stopped being cunts. But they won't :-)
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neither will I
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"you couldn't get a prescription for the Pill unless you were married"
OMFG! I didn't know that happened! That's just fked up!
One thing that always gets my goat about people bagging on about abortion is that childbearing can be dangerous. My sister fell pregnant (even with contraceptives) and was so ill so quickly that doctors said she should abort as soon as possible or it would almost definitely kill her. Soon afterwards, she had a miscarriage.
Women in our family have notoriously bad hormones.
The same thing happened with my mother when she was pregnant with me, she was told to abort. She decided that she wouldn't. Barely a few days afterwards, she had to have a hysterectomy.
This doesn't change my mind that abortion is bad. This only reinforces my belief in choice.
Sorry....felt like ranting on it.
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As a moderately hirsuite man, all I can say is: his body, his choice.
You wouldn't want to impose your own values on him, would you?
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His body, his choice but beware that that's not gonna be enough to get him the female vote - he's not that attractive ...
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In all honesty I can never imagine how the Libs could *ever* be a more progressive party than Labour when it comes to women's issues (or any other). But I could be wrong.
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I'd rather be an informed voter who decides on candidates and issues than just always tick the same box, because.
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I always vote on the issues. But I'm nowhere near a swinging voter because my interpretation of how the two parties treat the issues consistently comes down in the one camp. I would turn my vote around shamelessly tomorrow if the Libs stopped being cunts. But they won't :-)
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