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Report as: spam offensive Emily on 11/08/06 at 1pm

California is not a "proud, pro-choice state." The measure barely passed, which indicates California is split in half over the issue of abortion. To make the issue even more confusing, Proposition 85 was not simply about abortion; it was also about minors and their parents, child abuse, statutory rape, and all those other what-ifs that both sides of the argument pounce on when they are making their points.
Somewhere in the middle of this severely polarized issue is this: to varying degrees, a lot of Californians -- and a lot of Americans -- are tired of abortion. There are too many of them. Are so many young women dying for the need to have an abortion? Are women really so desperate that they would take abortions into their own hands if needs be? If they are, how will abortion help them? They will still be desperate, poor, abused, raped, or taken advantage of. Abortion does not change that.
Isn't there something that will truly advance the cause of women's rights that we can all work together on?




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