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To: truthluva; thefactor
"...was putting girls in prison over abortions ever really on the table?"

No.

From the very beginning --- eve, if you want to put it this way, before the beginning --- the prolife movement has seen the woman as the second victim of abortion. As in the slogan "Abortion: One Dead, One Injured." And in the slogan, "Women Deserve Better."

I say "before the beginning" because the first pro-life pregnancy centers, which had the name "Birthright," were started in 1967, 5 years before Roe vs Wade. And at present, there are more pro-life pregnancy centers than there are abortion clinics. We have always fought abortion by empowering women --- especially young and poor women --- with the support and the resources they need to give birth with dignity and confidence.

I've been active isn the pro-life movement for 30 years, I've traveled all over the country (and in Canada and 4 countries in Europe) and there isn't any "radical side of the pro-life activists." I've never I've never personally heard anybody--- except pro-abortionists---talk about "jailing women."

31 posted on 11/08/2007 12:29:03 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Free Republic, an all-purpose Internet forum, salon, and barfight.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

See post 20. That is the type of thing I think Fred was alluding to.


34 posted on 11/08/2007 12:32:53 PM PST by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Yes indeed.

The “Pro life” folks who speak of it here (and other places)are actually out of step IMHO...


36 posted on 11/08/2007 12:34:19 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Real voters in real voting booths will elect FDT.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
You've heard one now. And if I murdered my child I would expect to be in prison for a long time.
39 posted on 11/08/2007 12:37:07 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture ™)
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