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		<title>By: aus blog</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-49741</link>
		<dc:creator>aus blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Over 3,500 terminations per day, 1.3 MILLION per year in the United States alone.&lt;br /&gt;
 50 or 60 MILLION per year World Wide.&lt;br /&gt;
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  I am a pro-lifer who has no religious convictions at all . I didn&#039;t need the fear of god or anything else to come to my decision, just a good sence of what is right and wrong.&lt;br /&gt;
You see we were all once a fetus.  Is it beyond the realm of possibilities that when your mother first learned she was carrying you, she may have considered her options? What if she had decided to terminate?  Would that have been OK?&lt;br /&gt;
You would not exist, if you have children they would not exist, and your (husband or wife) would be married to someone else. You would have been deprived of all your experiences and memories.  In this day and age with terminations being so readily available and so many being carried out, if you make it to full term&lt;br /&gt;
you can consider yourself lucky.  Lucky you had a mother that made the choice of life for you. Don&#039;t you think they all deserve the same basic human right,  LIFE?&lt;br /&gt;
I&#039;m all for contraception, prevention is certainly better than termination.&lt;br /&gt;
Did you know you can get an implant that is safe, 99.9% effective, and lasts for three years? Just think girls not even a show for three years, wouldn&#039;t that be great? I think too many people rely too heavily on the last option (abortion), I think if abortions weren&#039;t so readily available people would manage their reproductive system far better resulting in a fraction of the number of unwanted pregnancies.&lt;br /&gt;
World wide there are over 50 MILLION aborted pregnancies each year. In America 3,500 terminations carried out every day, that&#039;s over 1.3 million every year, 50% of all cases CLAIMED that birth control had been used, 48% admitted they took no precaution, and 2% had a medical reason. That&#039;s a stagering 98% could have been prevented had an effective birth control been used. Don&#039;t get me wrong, I suspect the percentages in Australia would be much the same.&lt;br /&gt;
Just a lot of unnessessary killing.&lt;br /&gt;
I am convinced that in the not too distant future, people will look back at many of the practices of today with disbelief and horror.&lt;br /&gt;
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At the point of conception is when life began for you. This was the start of your existance. Your own personal big bang. Three weeks after conception heart started to beat. First brain waves recorded at six weeks after conception. Seen sucking thumb at seven weeks after conception.&lt;br /&gt;
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Have you checked out (abortionclinnicdays)-the reality show.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over 3,500 terminations per day, 1.3 MILLION per year in the United States alone.<br />
 50 or 60 MILLION per year World Wide.</p>
<p>  I am a pro-lifer who has no religious convictions at all . I didn&#8217;t need the fear of god or anything else to come to my decision, just a good sence of what is right and wrong.<br />
You see we were all once a fetus.  Is it beyond the realm of possibilities that when your mother first learned she was carrying you, she may have considered her options? What if she had decided to terminate?  Would that have been OK?<br />
You would not exist, if you have children they would not exist, and your (husband or wife) would be married to someone else. You would have been deprived of all your experiences and memories.  In this day and age with terminations being so readily available and so many being carried out, if you make it to full term<br />
you can consider yourself lucky.  Lucky you had a mother that made the choice of life for you. Don&#8217;t you think they all deserve the same basic human right,  LIFE?<br />
I&#8217;m all for contraception, prevention is certainly better than termination.<br />
Did you know you can get an implant that is safe, 99.9% effective, and lasts for three years? Just think girls not even a show for three years, wouldn&#8217;t that be great? I think too many people rely too heavily on the last option (abortion), I think if abortions weren&#8217;t so readily available people would manage their reproductive system far better resulting in a fraction of the number of unwanted pregnancies.<br />
World wide there are over 50 MILLION aborted pregnancies each year. In America 3,500 terminations carried out every day, that&#8217;s over 1.3 million every year, 50% of all cases CLAIMED that birth control had been used, 48% admitted they took no precaution, and 2% had a medical reason. That&#8217;s a stagering 98% could have been prevented had an effective birth control been used. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I suspect the percentages in Australia would be much the same.<br />
Just a lot of unnessessary killing.<br />
I am convinced that in the not too distant future, people will look back at many of the practices of today with disbelief and horror.</p>
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At the point of conception is when life began for you. This was the start of your existance. Your own personal big bang. Three weeks after conception heart started to beat. First brain waves recorded at six weeks after conception. Seen sucking thumb at seven weeks after conception.</p>
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Have you checked out (abortionclinnicdays)-the reality show.</p>
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		<title>By: Callie</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-45368</link>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s true, &quot;anti-choice&quot; is only used in the context of abortion.  So is &quot;pro-life&quot;.  Let&#039;s play your little game.  To consider yourself in favor of life, you need to end the death penalty, war, violence, poverty, and yes, smoking.  Is an American life &quot;saved&quot; by preventing some terrorist act that hasn&#039;t occurred more valuable than an innocent Iraqi life taken by our troops?  Is the revenge killing of a murderer in the electric chair better than what he did?  Will you vote for a tax increase so we can provide health care for hard-working people who have to choose between life-preserving health care and a house for their innocent children in a safe neighborhood?  Then, will you support a ban on smoking, ESPECIALLY in your own home if you have defenseless children?  Guns?  Again, in your home, because your innocent child is much more likely to die than some hypothetical intruder?  How about other bad choices people make: driving under the influence of ANY alcohol, or even with too little sleep?&lt;br /&gt;
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No, I didn&#039;t think so.&lt;br /&gt;
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Fight for an end to all the senseless things that kill innocent people, THEN call yourself pro-life.  Certain choices, like forcing a rape victim you don&#039;t know to carry a pregnancy to term, are cheap and easy for you to make.  Saving other innocent lives requires tougher choices on your part, doesn&#039;t it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s true, &#8220;anti-choice&#8221; is only used in the context of abortion.  So is &#8220;pro-life&#8221;.  Let&#8217;s play your little game.  To consider yourself in favor of life, you need to end the death penalty, war, violence, poverty, and yes, smoking.  Is an American life &#8220;saved&#8221; by preventing some terrorist act that hasn&#8217;t occurred more valuable than an innocent Iraqi life taken by our troops?  Is the revenge killing of a murderer in the electric chair better than what he did?  Will you vote for a tax increase so we can provide health care for hard-working people who have to choose between life-preserving health care and a house for their innocent children in a safe neighborhood?  Then, will you support a ban on smoking, ESPECIALLY in your own home if you have defenseless children?  Guns?  Again, in your home, because your innocent child is much more likely to die than some hypothetical intruder?  How about other bad choices people make: driving under the influence of ANY alcohol, or even with too little sleep?</p>
<p>No, I didn&#8217;t think so.</p>
<p>Fight for an end to all the senseless things that kill innocent people, THEN call yourself pro-life.  Certain choices, like forcing a rape victim you don&#8217;t know to carry a pregnancy to term, are cheap and easy for you to make.  Saving other innocent lives requires tougher choices on your part, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>By: woooord</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-44410</link>
		<dc:creator>woooord</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gosh, Christina, does that then mean that by calling yourself pro-life you&#039;re implying that the rest of us are anti-life?&lt;br /&gt;
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Oops, there I go again, trying to use a serious argument against someone who snubs science and research in favor of a loosely interpreted, oft-mistranslated, 2,000-year-old story book.&lt;br /&gt;
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I am anti your life.  Zing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gosh, Christina, does that then mean that by calling yourself pro-life you&#8217;re implying that the rest of us are anti-life?</p>
<p>Oops, there I go again, trying to use a serious argument against someone who snubs science and research in favor of a loosely interpreted, oft-mistranslated, 2,000-year-old story book.</p>
<p>I am anti your life.  Zing.</p>
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		<title>By: Albatross</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-41124</link>
		<dc:creator>Albatross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody is &quot;pro abortion.&quot;  Not even the staunchest pro-choice advocate.  In an ideal world, everyone would have the right to an abortion, but nobody would ever have one.&lt;br /&gt;
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However we don&#039;t live in an ideal world, we live in the real world.  In the real world, women have to sometimes make very hard choices about the insides of their own bodies.  At such times, they are not helped by having grandstanding politicians pretend to have some business being involved.  Nor are they helped by dreamy-eyed religionists with cherubic fantasies, no by purse-lipped harridans wagging their fingers, nor are they helped by bellicose protesters shouting at them in parking lots.&lt;br /&gt;
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A woman&#039;s sovreign territory begins at her skin, and NOBODY has a right to tell her what to do about a creature growing inside that skin.  Your religious beliefs may tell you otherwise, but until you manage to turn America into the Christian-Taliban Theocracy of your wet dreams, I suggest you go back to your Bibles and count the number of times the word &#039;abortion&#039; appears as opposed to the word &#039;compassion.&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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When I saw that plane overhead on Saturday, all I could think of was the number of starving Ethiopian kids who could have been fed with the money that rental cost.  But of course, we don&#039;t CARE about those kids, because they&#039;ve already been born and can fend for themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody is &#8220;pro abortion.&#8221;  Not even the staunchest pro-choice advocate.  In an ideal world, everyone would have the right to an abortion, but nobody would ever have one.</p>
<p>However we don&#8217;t live in an ideal world, we live in the real world.  In the real world, women have to sometimes make very hard choices about the insides of their own bodies.  At such times, they are not helped by having grandstanding politicians pretend to have some business being involved.  Nor are they helped by dreamy-eyed religionists with cherubic fantasies, no by purse-lipped harridans wagging their fingers, nor are they helped by bellicose protesters shouting at them in parking lots.</p>
<p>A woman&#8217;s sovreign territory begins at her skin, and NOBODY has a right to tell her what to do about a creature growing inside that skin.  Your religious beliefs may tell you otherwise, but until you manage to turn America into the Christian-Taliban Theocracy of your wet dreams, I suggest you go back to your Bibles and count the number of times the word &#8216;abortion&#8217; appears as opposed to the word &#8216;compassion.&#8217;</p>
<p>When I saw that plane overhead on Saturday, all I could think of was the number of starving Ethiopian kids who could have been fed with the money that rental cost.  But of course, we don&#8217;t CARE about those kids, because they&#8217;ve already been born and can fend for themselves.</p>
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		<title>By: Christina</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-41070</link>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Puh-LEASE with the &quot;anti-choice.&quot; The only choice being opposed is the choice to dismember fetuses, which is one choice out of millions.&lt;br /&gt;
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You don&#039;t call people &quot;anti-choice&quot; when they oppose the choice to smoke in restaurants, the choice to molest children, the choice to own firearms. You only say &quot;anti-choice&quot; when they oppose that one choice. &lt;br /&gt;
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You&#039;re not saying anything about your opposition. What you&#039;re saying is that to you, &quot;choice&quot; means &quot;abortion&quot;. In which case you&#039;re not really pro choice. You&#039;re pro abortion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Puh-LEASE with the &#8220;anti-choice.&#8221; The only choice being opposed is the choice to dismember fetuses, which is one choice out of millions.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t call people &#8220;anti-choice&#8221; when they oppose the choice to smoke in restaurants, the choice to molest children, the choice to own firearms. You only say &#8220;anti-choice&#8221; when they oppose that one choice. </p>
<p>You&#8217;re not saying anything about your opposition. What you&#8217;re saying is that to you, &#8220;choice&#8221; means &#8220;abortion&#8221;. In which case you&#8217;re not really pro choice. You&#8217;re pro abortion.</p>
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		<title>By: Los Agen</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-40722</link>
		<dc:creator>Los Agen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looked to me that that little prop plane was struggling to pull that banner--I was concerned about safety.  Regardless of the message, it looked like a stupid disaster ready to happen if the wind blew the right way.  &lt;br /&gt;
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I was surprised to see it out  on the second day.  I assume that means that it was all legal.  I am surprised that the FAA would allow such a thing.  &lt;br /&gt;
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Wait, the Admininstrator is a long term Bushoid.&lt;br /&gt;
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Never mind. . . . &lt;br /&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looked to me that that little prop plane was struggling to pull that banner&#8211;I was concerned about safety.  Regardless of the message, it looked like a stupid disaster ready to happen if the wind blew the right way.  </p>
<p>I was surprised to see it out  on the second day.  I assume that means that it was all legal.  I am surprised that the FAA would allow such a thing.  </p>
<p>Wait, the Admininstrator is a long term Bushoid.</p>
<p>Never mind. . . . </p>
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		<title>By: Pro-Choicer</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-40682</link>
		<dc:creator>Pro-Choicer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The banner says: &quot;ABORTION: 10 week fetus&quot; and then has a 1-800 number.  It shows a blown-up, distorted picture of a fetus.&lt;br /&gt;
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This group likes to bring these banners by every two years during the election season.  Later this fall, we&#039;ll probably have the vans with blown-up pictures of fetuses drive through downtown for a few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Ohio, they&#039;ve begun passing out &quot;aborted baby dolls&quot; to kids.  In Minnesota, they simply pass out plastic fetuses and coloring books to kids.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you think this stuff, and making aboriton illegal in South Dakota, is pretty messed up, take the opportunity to support reproductive rights.  Check out the &lt;strong&gt;Comedy for Choice&lt;/strong&gt; to support NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota on Thursday, July 13 at the Woman&#039;s Club of Minneapolis.  Details and tickets here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prochoiceminnesota.org&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.prochoiceminnesota.org&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The banner says: &#8220;ABORTION: 10 week fetus&#8221; and then has a 1-800 number.  It shows a blown-up, distorted picture of a fetus.</p>
<p>This group likes to bring these banners by every two years during the election season.  Later this fall, we&#8217;ll probably have the vans with blown-up pictures of fetuses drive through downtown for a few weeks.</p>
<p>In Ohio, they&#8217;ve begun passing out &#8220;aborted baby dolls&#8221; to kids.  In Minnesota, they simply pass out plastic fetuses and coloring books to kids.</p>
<p>If you think this stuff, and making aboriton illegal in South Dakota, is pretty messed up, take the opportunity to support reproductive rights.  Check out the <strong>Comedy for Choice</strong> to support NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota on Thursday, July 13 at the Woman&#8217;s Club of Minneapolis.  Details and tickets here: <a href="http://www.prochoiceminnesota.org" target="_blank">http://www.prochoiceminnesota.org</a></p>
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		<title>By: mantenna</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-40645</link>
		<dc:creator>mantenna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yeah Adam I&#039;ll bet if these babyfucking idiots would cool their jets and get real for a couple of seconds - we could solve this crazy abortion riddle once and for all!  Right here on MNSpeak.com!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yeah Adam I&#8217;ll bet if these babyfucking idiots would cool their jets and get real for a couple of seconds &#8211; we could solve this crazy abortion riddle once and for all!  Right here on MNSpeak.com!</p>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-40592</link>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There needs to be better education regarding birth control and family planning.  Students need to be taught something other than just plain abstinence (because they likely will have sex before marriage regardless of abstinence teachings).  They need to know about how to protect themselves, not just from pregnancy, but from diseases.  I think a more informed and better protected society will lead to less abortions.  Hopefully it wouldn&#039;t lead to an increase in sexual activity among minors...I don&#039;t think it would though.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There needs to be better education regarding birth control and family planning.  Students need to be taught something other than just plain abstinence (because they likely will have sex before marriage regardless of abstinence teachings).  They need to know about how to protect themselves, not just from pregnancy, but from diseases.  I think a more informed and better protected society will lead to less abortions.  Hopefully it wouldn&#8217;t lead to an increase in sexual activity among minors&#8230;I don&#8217;t think it would though.</p>
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		<title>By: adam</title>
		<link>http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9311#comment-40589</link>
		<dc:creator>adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>not gonna be a productive debate as long as people make jokes about eating and fucking fetuses.  idiots.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>not gonna be a productive debate as long as people make jokes about eating and fucking fetuses.  idiots.</p>
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