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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Peterson had "whupped" a fetus, those who now defend him would condemn him.
Just saying.
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If Peterson had "whupped" a fetus, those who now defend him would condemn him. (Original Post)
elehhhhna
Sep 2014
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RandySF
(58,856 posts)1. How can anyone defend this?`
He left cuts all over the kid.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)2. That would be assault on a pregnant woman.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)3. whu?
Sopkoviak
(357 posts)4. What are you babbling on about?
Just who have you heard defend him?
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)5. Do not ever speak to me that way again.
enjoy your short stay here.
Sopkoviak
(357 posts)6. Just answer the question
Who the hell have you heard defend him and what would that have to do with a fetus?
BTW, I don't suffer fools lightly and I'll speak to you as I please sir.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)7. read anything other than DU - it's everywhere
comments about his right to discipline his kid, ma'am
moriah
(8,311 posts)8. You don't get it. At all.
The Freepers and ESPNers and many others, including a few people here have defended the actions of this man as proper child-rearing, or at least not intentional abuse.
But most of the people who are willing to spank their kids to that extreme, usually for religious reasons, are also rabid anti-abortion activists.
Explained for you?