Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "Why abortion rights advocate Kate Cox is helping to defeat Ted Cruz" video.

  1. Healthcare is a human right. Abortion is healthcare.
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  2. A few years ago, when Ireland was preparing to vote in the referendum that would repeal the country's abortion ban, I heard one Irish woman being interviewed - not about that, but about the issue of the infamous "laundries" where young women were effectively imprisoned if they got pregnant "out of wedlock". This woman's biological mother had been an inmate in such a place, her baby had been adopted. During the interview, the woman very clearly said she found it hard to think that if abortion had been legal in Ireland back then, perhaps she would have never been born: she found it especially hard because then, her own children would not exist either. She concluded by saying that she was voting to repeal the abortion ban, because, and I remember her voice saying the words, "It's not about me". Long story short: DO NOT use adoption to justify your views on women's reproductive rights.
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