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Abortion Rate Among Black Women Far Exceeds Rate for Other Groups
Fox News ^ | 04/09/2008 | John R. Lott, Jr. and Sonya D. Jones

Posted on 04/09/2008 10:32:12 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

..."80 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority neighborhoods."

Planned Parenthood officials did not produce a response to this claim. The organization performed 22 percent of all abortions in 2005 (260,000 out of 1.2 million abortions).

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Blacks do, indeed, have much higher rates of abortions than whites or other minority groups. In 2000, while blacks made up 17 percent of live births, they made up more than twice that share of abortions (36 percent). If those aborted children had been born, the number of blacks born would have been slightly over 50 percent greater than it was.

The comparison with whites and other minorities is striking. Whites made up 78 percent of live births, but only 57 percent of abortions. Non-black minorities had 7 percent of live births and 5 percent of abortions. If the aborted children had been born for either group, the percentage increase in the number of children born to these groups would have been less than that for blacks: 16 and 32 percent, respectively.

Data from 1973 on indicate that black women's share of abortions has consistently been at least twice their share of live births.

But not all those babies would necessarily have been born if abortion were illegal or harder to obtain. A number of recent academic studies have found that making abortion more difficult results in less pre-marital sex and fewer pre-marital pregnancies.

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In 1973, the year the Supreme Court rendered its Roe v. Wade decision, there were 11 abortions per 1000 women aged 15 to 44. Eight years later, that number doubled for the same group to 22. In terms of the total number of abortions, 615,831 legal abortions took place in 1973; 1,300,760 in 1981.

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Planned Parenthood: Racism is alive and well.
1 posted on 04/09/2008 10:32:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
Liberals like Obama support the Planned Parenthood racists.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 04/09/2008 10:34:10 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Obama uses the black community as a means of political support to attain power. What has Barack Hussein Obama ever done to actually advance the black community?


3 posted on 04/09/2008 10:36:40 AM PDT by weegee (March 18th, 2008 Obama~"I did NOT listen to the sermons of that man, Jeremiah Wright...")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Exactly what Margaret Sanger wanted.


4 posted on 04/09/2008 10:39:11 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~***Just say NO to the "O"***~~~)
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To: goldstategop
One of my favorite resources for just how racist Planned Parenthood is:

http://www.klannedparenthood.com/History_of_Abortion_Statistics/

5 posted on 04/09/2008 10:39:14 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Typical White Person)
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To: Responsibility2nd
If you are surprised by this genocide , I would suggest your life is blessed by the absence of liberals . I have been told dozens of times by liberals their pro-abortion stance is founded on the fear of black on white crime .
6 posted on 04/09/2008 10:39:28 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The truth about Margaret Sanger

(This article first appeared in the January 20, 1992 edition of Citizen magazine)

How Planned Parenthood Duped America

At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the “black” and “yellow” peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.

Sanger’s other colleagues included avowed and sophisticated racists. One, Lothrop Stoddard, was a Harvard graduate and the author of The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy. Stoddard was something of a Nazi enthusiast who described the eugenic practices of the Third Reich as “scientific” and “humanitarian.” And Dr. Harry Laughlin, another Sanger associate and board member for her group, spoke of purifying America’s human “breeding stock” and purging America’s “bad strains.” These “strains” included the “shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of antisocial whites of the South.”

Not to be outdone by her followers, Margaret Sanger spoke of sterilizing those she designated as “unfit,” a plan she said would be the “salvation of American civilization.: And she also spike of those who were “irresponsible and reckless,” among whom she included those “ whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers.” She further contended that “there is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.” That many Americans of African origin constituted a segment of Sanger considered “unfit” cannot be easily refuted.

While Planned Parenthood’s current apologists try to place some distance between the eugenics and birth control movements, history definitively says otherwise. The eugenic theme figured prominently in the Birth Control Review, which Sanger founded in 1917. She published such articles as “Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics” (June 1920), “The Eugenic Conscience” (February 1921), “The purpose of Eugenics” (December 1924), “Birth Control and Positive Eugenics” (July 1925), “Birth Control: The True Eugenics” (August 1928), and many others.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html


7 posted on 04/09/2008 10:39:59 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: Responsibility2nd

Imagine the outrage if some white guy were to announce or “claim” the corollary of this data:

Black women:
- are sluts
- can’t keep their legs closed
- are bad mothers
- kill their babies
- hate their babies
etc.


8 posted on 04/09/2008 10:40:37 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Responsibility2nd

Planned Parenthood uses abortion as birth control.


9 posted on 04/09/2008 10:41:53 AM PDT by RC2
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Abortion Rate Among Black Women Far Exceeds Rate for Other Groups”

So is their penchant for irresponsible behavior...


10 posted on 04/09/2008 10:44:01 AM PDT by Finop (The Liberal says... "It's not fair that you work harder than I do")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Were it not for Roe there would be fully 1/3 more Black people in America and of course 1/3 more Democrat voters. The rat is eating his own.


11 posted on 04/09/2008 10:45:12 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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Still working just as Margaret Sanger planned.


12 posted on 04/09/2008 10:46:40 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Exactly, eugenics and genocide. Black folks are suckers for our continued support of the Democrats who favor a platform that wants to wipe us out. .... either before we are born or with liberal policies that perpetuate the slave mentality. That is one of the reasons this sister and many black people that I know have broken away. It is still not enough though.


13 posted on 04/09/2008 10:47:07 AM PDT by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!!)
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To: taxcontrol

Then he would just be another “typical white person” denying the “obvious truth” that the government is somehow encouraging abortion to wipe out the black race.


14 posted on 04/09/2008 10:48:22 AM PDT by kelsiejackson ("We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.")
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To: Finop

you:

“Abortion Rate Among Black Women Far Exceeds Rate for Other Groups”

So is their penchant for irresponsible behavior...

me: WE HAVE A WINNER, DING, DING, DING,!!!!

BLACKS ARE THEIR OWN WORST ENEMY.


15 posted on 04/09/2008 10:48:44 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: Finop

““Abortion Rate Among Black Women Far Exceeds Rate for Other Groups”

So is their penchant for irresponsible behavior...”

In this day and age of readily available and in many cases free contraception, there is no excuse any more. But people refuse to be responsible and are left coping with the difficult and tragic decision of ending a life.

Hope the sex was worth it.


16 posted on 04/09/2008 10:49:21 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: Responsibility2nd

So who didn’t already know this?


17 posted on 04/09/2008 10:50:07 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Finop

So is their penchant for irresponsible behavior...

Okay, so white people never exhibit irresponsible behavior? Please don’t let me get started. ....two words “Polygamus Sect” one more “Columbine”...Terry McVeigh, Hitler, Bill Clinton, Ted Bundy, “Eight Teens Arrested for Beating Teen to Post on YouTube”... don’t go there.


18 posted on 04/09/2008 10:52:28 AM PDT by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population

Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth.

- Margaret Sanger.

http://www.nrlc.org/bal/sanger.html

19 posted on 04/09/2008 10:52:39 AM PDT by bird4four4 (Behead those who suggest Islam is violent!)
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To: brwnsuga

“Abortion Rate Among Black Women Far Exceeds Rate for Other Groups”

So is their penchant for irresponsible behavior...


20 posted on 04/09/2008 10:56:42 AM PDT by Finop (You got something against white people?)
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To: jmaroneps37

Or put another way, there would be more low income young Americans from broken homes needing low wage low skill jobs. So the illegal immigrant “solution” to America’s employement woes would not be needed. And there would be the same number of Democrats.


21 posted on 04/09/2008 10:57:17 AM PDT by weegee (March 18th, 2008 Obama~"I did NOT listen to the sermons of that man, Jeremiah Wright...")
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To: kelsiejackson

the government is somehow encouraging abortion to wipe out the black race.

There are people in the government (liberals) and judging by this thread, even some Freepers who wouldn’t mind if that actually occured.


22 posted on 04/09/2008 10:57:58 AM PDT by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
A number of recent academic studies have found that making abortion more difficult results in less pre-marital sex and fewer pre-marital pregnancies.
23 posted on 04/09/2008 10:57:58 AM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Responsibility2nd
A number of recent academic studies have found that making abortion more difficult results in less pre-marital sex and fewer pre-marital pregnancies

I find that extremely hard to believe. There are lots of other easier means of contraception out there.

24 posted on 04/09/2008 11:04:52 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: brwnsuga
I agree with you, there are plenty of white people just as damn irresponsible. It just is not that obvious!

I just wish that the people in some poor black communities would just wake up and break the chain that is in constant motion. I personally feel that some politicians(namely democrats) like to keep minorities uneducated, totally dependant and poor just so they can manipulate them. They also don't mind offering an unlimited supply of abortions to these communities so that they keep their numbers in check. It is sick!

If these statistics don't wake people up out of their stupor I don't know what will.

25 posted on 04/09/2008 11:06:16 AM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: Finop

If your culture had been told for generations by liberals that your present condition is not due to anything YOU are doing or deciding, and everything to do with what another group is doing or has done to you,

you’d tend to make irresponsible decisions too.


26 posted on 04/09/2008 11:07:10 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: brwnsuga

Right you are-and the bastards are STILL hoping all of us who are of racial/ethnic minority background will either be aborted or on their welfare plantation someday. It hasn’t worked quite as well with hispanics, though-maybe because most of us are Catholic. The real racists/white supremists in this country are the leaders of the democrat party.


27 posted on 04/09/2008 11:08:15 AM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: raygunfan

I would say a big “WRONG” to your assertion.

“Liberals” & leftists are Blacks’ worst enemy, and even worse, under the guise of “helping” and “compassion”.


28 posted on 04/09/2008 11:08:23 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Nonstatist

I always though that the “father on the door step with a shotgun method” worked well.


29 posted on 04/09/2008 11:08:58 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (The Constitution starts with the assumption that our rights are inherent and limits intrusion.)
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To: brwnsuga

You’re referring to “white people” or “[insert here] people”...

What CULTURE is promoting this behavior?

Traditional Western culture, or some other culture?


30 posted on 04/09/2008 11:09:46 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The racist founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, would be pleased. I think it is despicable that innocent children are being murdered in the womb, no matter WHAT race.
31 posted on 04/09/2008 11:10:14 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: weegee

Don’t count on these babies growing up to actually fill a minimum wage position.

They’ve been inculcated with the idea that welfare is the preferred choice.


32 posted on 04/09/2008 11:13:22 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: bird4four4

It’s amazing that black activists like Sharpton, Jackson and Obama support using Medicaid to fund poor black womens’ abortions. It’s self-imposed genocide. What nitwits.


33 posted on 04/09/2008 11:14:20 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: brwnsuga

Might be some that truly are racist,

but many, like me, are more “culturist” than anything.

In other words, its the behaviors that we don’t like, not the melanin content.


34 posted on 04/09/2008 11:14:26 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: weegee

Word


35 posted on 04/09/2008 11:15:30 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: Nonstatist

Any time you remove an alleviation for the consequences of a choice,

you’ll get less of the choice. It’s inherently logical.

I believe it.


36 posted on 04/09/2008 11:15:50 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

It just is not that obvious!

ACTUALLY IT IS
But I don’t want to digress. I did a paper in Eng 111 about the root cause of all of the ills in the black community. It is “fatherlessness”. Fatherlessness has a negative effect on graduation rates, crime rates, teen pregnancy and poverty. It has become a viscious cycle in my community. I feel like so called black leaders are wasting energy chasing law suits when all of our resources should be spent on promoting the black family unit. In 1890 over 80% of all families were headed by married couples. In recent years it is only 38%. What happened? The New Deal, Welfare and down we went. It is time we stop being slaves to this government and stand on our own two feet.


37 posted on 04/09/2008 11:16:35 AM PDT by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!!)
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To: brwnsuga
There are people in the government (liberals) and judging by this thread, even some Freepers who wouldn’t mind if that actually occured.

Judging by the trend I have noticed on FR in the past few months - I suspicion FR has been widely infiltrated by liberals

38 posted on 04/09/2008 11:17:58 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: maine-iac7

wow, good thing we are not liberals


39 posted on 04/09/2008 11:19:53 AM PDT by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
But not all those babies would necessarily have been born if abortion were illegal or harder to obtain. A number of recent academic studies have found that making abortion more difficult results in less pre-marital sex and fewer pre-marital pregnancies.

Abortion is a symptom of social decay and not the disease itself.

The average woman today is pretty much required to have sex without marriage or even a stable relationship. The average guy will usually just go elsewhere if he doesn't get some within a month or so. Contraceptives aren't 100% effective or used properly so these women often end up pregnant with no good path to choose.

Thank you femnists and the sexual revolution.

40 posted on 04/09/2008 11:21:12 AM PDT by varyouga ("Rove is some mysterious God of politics & mind control" - DU 10-24-06)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Margaret Sanger, divine goddess of Planned Parenthood, lives.


41 posted on 04/09/2008 11:26:24 AM PDT by chesley (Where's the omelet? -- Orwell)
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To: brwnsuga; Mrs. Frogjerk

When I was a kid, my family was considered weird because we voted Republican and most of our dads were in the military, but today in the area I live in, we fit right in with the others of hispanic ancestry because most of them are in the military and vote conservative/republican-there is still hope this will all come around right (pun intended), I believe.


42 posted on 04/09/2008 11:28:22 AM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Only one word for this madness: genocide.


43 posted on 04/09/2008 11:30:24 AM PDT by bobjam
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To: varyouga

“The average woman today is pretty much required to have sex without marriage or even a stable relationship.”

LOL... and I thought I knew what ridiculous meant... LOL!


44 posted on 04/09/2008 11:31:00 AM PDT by Finop (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.)
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To: brwnsuga
You are among very good company - and I pray that more people will start listening to you and people like Dr. Cosby, Jesse Lee Peterson, Ward Connerly, Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, Steve Perry....the list goes on and on.

There is, in this climate of the most dangerous weapon of war against our freedoms, the Stealth Weapon: PC, no way there can be 'dialog' between the Black Liberationists and the white community. Anything a white may say can and will be construed as racist - the person will be cut off, labeled and, most likely, loose their job = therefore, they dare not speak honestly.

The modus operandi of the Black Liberationists/Separatists is: "Whitey: Sit down, listen up, shut up and PAY up."

The only dialog at the juncture would be dialog between the radicals and people like yourself, although it will still be difficult as they also use the Communist tactics on you by labeling and sidelining you as "Uncle Toms"

These people don't want dialog. They want capitulation.

I am in awe of people like you who are wise enough to see the truth, have the heart to truly care about the people caught in this velvet cage of liberal double-speak, and brave enough to speak out.

45 posted on 04/09/2008 11:34:36 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: varyouga
The average guy will usually just go elsewhere if he doesn't get some within a month or so

Why would a woman of virtue WANT one of these "average guys"?

46 posted on 04/09/2008 11:34:54 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Texan5
When I was a kid, my family was considered weird because we voted Republican and most of our dads were in the military, but today in the area I live in, we fit right in with the others of hispanic ancestry because most of them are in the military and vote conservative/republican-there is still hope this will all come around right (pun intended), I believe. .


47 posted on 04/09/2008 11:37:36 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: brwnsuga

It just is not that obvious!

“ACTUALLY IT IS
But I don’t want to digress. I did a paper in Eng 111 about the root cause of all of the ills in the black community. It is “fatherlessness”. Fatherlessness has a negative effect on graduation rates, crime rates, teen pregnancy and poverty. It has become a viscious cycle in my community. I feel like so called black leaders are wasting energy chasing law suits when all of our resources should be spent on promoting the black family unit. In 1890 over 80% of all families were headed by married couples. In recent years it is only 38%. What happened? The New Deal, Welfare and down we went. It is time we stop being slaves to this government and stand on our own two feet.”

I would think that your paper could also extend to most abortions no matter what race the person belongs to. When boys/men are raised to believe that there is a way out and that they no longer are responsible what do we expect?


48 posted on 04/09/2008 11:39:56 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: taxcontrol
What compelled you to post that?
49 posted on 04/09/2008 11:42:31 AM PDT by dbwz (kthxbai)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Planned = Premeditated

“parenthood” = Infanticide


50 posted on 04/09/2008 11:44:08 AM PDT by RachelFaith (Doing NOTHING... about the illegals already here IS Amnesty !!)
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