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   Tue Elung-Jensen said, 8 months ago

   I “hear” alot of things too – doesn’t mean I automaticly believe it.
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   russell5419 said, 8 months ago

   make it legal and tax it just like liquor, helps the economy and gets rid of mexican drug cartels, or at least hurt them them a lot, because you still have the real drugs to contend with.
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   Ms. Ima said, 8 months ago

   Get stoned, get pregnant, get an abortion. Repeat.
   That’s the liberal way.
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   Clark Kent said, 8 months ago

   What the heck is assay trying to say? What does legalization have to do with a womans right to choose?
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   Chillbilly said, 8 months ago

   Asay’s trying to compare legalization of pot with legalization of abortion. Because all credible evidence points to pot making people kill millions of babies every year.
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   (Unlike … say … lack of health care.)
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   Prof_Bleen said, 8 months ago

   Funny thing, how abortion rates in Scandinavia are LOWER than in the USA.
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   Bruce4671 said, 8 months ago

   @Chillbilly

   Look again.
   
   “you know, a lot of pro marijuana folks say they are also pro life”, says Asay
   
   and then he queries Planned Parenthood: Hows that “safe, legal and rare policy working out for the little ones?”
   
   Now IMO Asay is pointing out that stoners love life and that Planned Parenthood is the one that kills millions of babies every year.
   
   Some quotes from a Wiki article on abortion in the US complete with their caveat stateing that reporting is not a legal requirement so these are just the reported numbers.
   
   “According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), since 1973, roughly 50 million legal induced abortions have been performed in the United States.³⁷ World wide, there have been over 1,260,000,000 abortions performed.”
   
   In 2004, the rates of abortion by ethnicity in the U.S. were 50 abortions per 1,000 black women, 28 abortions per 1,000 Hispanic women, and 11 abortions per 1,000 white women.
   
   Come on people why are we killing our children?
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   ARodney said, 8 months ago

   Safe, legal, and rare is working pretty well in Colorado, especially thanks to Planned Parenthood providing health care and contraceptives. Compare to the horrific stories coming out of Texas of “legal, but completely unavailable, therefore women go to Mexico for unsafe abortions.” Women are dying because of big government conservatism. Get over yourselves. I’m proudly pro-life (of living people), pro-contraception, and pro-choice.
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   Justice22 said, 8 months ago

   @ARodney

   Well put Rodney.
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    Archimedes said, 8 months ago

    @ARodney

    Women are dying because they decide to become pregnant—or fail to think enough not to—then chose to kill the unborn child. It is horrible that these women are being hurt and dying. But blaming it on conservatives is just passing the buck. Unlike Big government Liberal Ideas, no one forces those women to make that decision.
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 8 months ago

    I guess I really did have a Liberal upbringing. I remember singing “No Man is An Island” in the choir and I was “The Grand Poobah” when the school play was “The Mikado”.
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    I still think that everyone ought to have to sing those songs and be in those plays Here’s why
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    Because when you do The Mikado you internalize the songs like the one above:
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    My object all sublime
    I shall achieve in time —
    To let the punishment fit the crime —
    The punishment fit the crime;
    And make each prisoner pent
    Unwillingly represent
    A source of innocent merriment!
    Of innocent merriment!
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    Here are the lyrics Because they’re hard to follow otherwise
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    This is brought to mind by Archimedes (eureka!) who figures that that strumpet who lets herself get pregnant in a moment of passion should be forced to pay for that lapse with the rest of her life.
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    Yes, people make dumb choices. And the consequences are horrible, either way. But that in and of itself doesn’t stop them making those dumb choices. So why go out of your way to make one of the horrible consequences even more horrible. Especially when you also make the other consequence more horrible than it needs to be too!?
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 8 months ago

    Hey Chuck,
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    Biblical view this here No Man Is An Island
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    As part of a devotion in 1694 by John Donne
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    Funny, at the time I went to school this was considered to quite tame to “right wing” sort of stuff. Now it’s practically considered Commie Propaganda!
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    indieme said, 8 months ago

    Hemp would have grown well in the drought the midwest just experienced. It has thousands of uses and can’t nobody get high from it. Yet it is still banned. Go figure.
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    Radish said, 8 months ago

    Asay has a simple sick twisted mind.
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    dtroutma said, 8 months ago

    Datura, marihuana, and “abortion formulas” were available, and used, by “primitive cultures”, before aspirin, or ether as an esthetic. Terminating unwanted pregnancies goes back a long , long, way in cultures. Infanticide was common to those cultures that didn’t “catch on” sooner, or when folks waited too long.

    
    Heroin was just as legal as booze, until both were banned about the same time in the U.S.. Of course marihuana is a “drug”, but is NOT a narcotic. But, linking a “doobie” to Planned Parenthood, or abortion, or miscarriage, or unprotected sex by the MALES in the audience, oh, wait, MEN have nothing to do with a woman getting pregnant against her will, all unwanted pregnancies are the result of immaculate conception, RIGHT??

    
    Asay’s “biblical world view” is again, as always, a male-dominated, pre-Columbian educational view of the world, where prohibition is great, as long as all the rules are made by men, to protect THEIR “property”.
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