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You’re not Pro-life, just Pro-Forced Birth Despite proclaiming loudly On signs accusing, ****** To one in three women, proudly You’re not Pro-Life, but Anti-choice And Anti-women, too Shutting down Planned Parenthood is A War on Women’s coup Your Pro-Birth stance is but a sham Backwards in time, you’re swimming Saying Jesus is your Lamb while Cutting aid for pregnant women I saw you there, in Salem, too Pointing, declaring them WITCHES Burned alive by your testimony Betraying and damning your SISTERS My mother used to say self praise Was not really praise at all How can you say you’re Pro-Birthers Causing WIC funding to fall? The schools that once were funded Providing breakfast for hungry kids Was cut-yet congress spends like Spartans Government sold to the highest bids Sixty percent of our money In good ole USA Goes straight to the military And I demand a say! ‘Health’ gets only five percent And ‘Education’ six Yet that’s where congress goes To cut funding to the quick You shut down Planned Parenthood with Dishonest screams and shouts… Support Accidental Parenthood- Is that what you’re about?
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Feb 19, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 at 2:41 PM UTC
Support Accidental Parenthood!
You’re not Pro-life, just Pro-Forced Birth Despite proclaiming loudly On signs accusing, ****** To one in three women, proudly You’re not Pro-Life, but Anti-choice And Anti-women, too Shutting down Planned Parenthood is A War on Women’s coup Your Pro-Birth stance is but a sham Backwards in time, you’re swimming Saying Jesus is your Lamb while Cutting aid for pregnant women I saw you there, in Salem, too Pointing, declaring them WITCHES Burned alive by your testimony Betraying and damning your SISTERS My mother used to say self praise Was not really praise at all How can you say you’re Pro-Birthers Causing WIC funding to fall? The schools that once were funded Providing breakfast for hungry kids Was cut-yet congress spends like Spartans Government sold to the highest bids Sixty percent of our money In good ole USA Goes straight to the military And I demand a say! ‘Health’ gets only five percent And ‘Education’ six Yet that’s where congress goes To cut funding to the quick You shut down Planned Parenthood with Dishonest screams and shouts… Support Accidental Parenthood- Is that what you’re about?
I saw a cartoon recently with an elephant holding a big sign declaring "I support Accidental Parenthood".   I just needed to get this out, in response to the people against Planned Parenthood, not even knowing its 100 year history and success at lowering infant mortality, teenage pregnancy, STD's and providing myriad other reproductive healthcare to women, primarily, but men, too.  Families.  It makes no sense, and was not done in past centuries, for government to interfere with women & their doctors in private, complicated healthcare decisions.  Some legislators would even prevent a teenager, ***** by a relative, to get an abortion.  As a nurse for many years, I remember seeing the results of that baby being born-I'll spare you the details.  But it's ignorant and unwarranted for the same ones declaring they'd like government  to get small enough to "drown in a bathtub", continue to interfere in women's reproductive freedom.  Will they want to shut down the VA, too?
terry-jordan
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Feb 19, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 at 2:41 PM UTC
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