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Florynce Rae "Flo" Kennedy, black activist lawyer and feminist from the 1960s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florynce_Kennedy
One of the last photos of her. Even in a wheelchair, she was still giving the PTB the finger.
Studies indicate that activists within the American pro-life movement are predominantly white and educated, with a majority of pro-life activism constituted by women.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_pro-life_movement#Demographics
Meanwhile the difference between "large majority" and "only" is single digits which were statistically negligible just 4 years ago, but that somehow more accurately reflects reality, yes?
For one thing, the picture was never intended to suggest that 100% of anyone is anything and it's the silliest of strawmen to suggest otherwise. It was intended to demonstrate that there's a significant number of women who are virulently anti-abortion, which means that dreaming up fictional scenarios and pretending things would be different is even farther afield from reality than the scenario is at face value.
Pro-choice =/ anti-abortion, so your only recent trend in the gallup poll doesn't prove much either. Only a small percentage of the population think abortion should be illegal in all circumstances and an even smaller percentage are single issue voters on the subject.
What the studies from the Wiki link actually show is that the majority of people who are actually virulently anti-abortion are decidedly women. Pointing out the tiny minority of anti-abortion terrorists doesn't change that and I'm not sure why you'd think it would be relevant to even mention it.
The oldest and largest anti-abortion organization in the US is led by a woman.
Clinic harrassers "are almost 100% men"? Not sure where you pulled that one from.
but I'm the one being misleading. Is that really the best you can do?
Whether you choose to admit it or not, and no matter how many red herrings you throw out, the majority of virulent anti-abortionists are women which is an assertion I've supported with proof rather than just inventing statistics like "almost 100%" which are demonstrably false and not just a bit misleading.
As far as the politicians go, who do you think the majority of the people who vote are? Guess what? It's women, and has been for the last 30 years. Who do you think makes up the vast majority of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus? Guess what, it's men. The idea that the Michelle Bachmanns and Sarah Palins trump the Alan Graysons and Mike Hondas because they happened to be born with a womb doesn't have much merit. I've heard it before and it makes no more sense now. The GOP has no problems finding women who are forced birthers, because as I've proved, there's lots of them to pick from. It's not as if they have to look very hard.
You can't figure it out because you have it exactly backwards and either can't figure that out or you're just making up strawman nonsense. I'm not blaming women for anything. I'm countering the ridiculous notion of blaming men for "all that", which is kinda the whole pointless point of the OP which you evidently subscribe and I assure you is not even in the same zip code as reality.
Don't know why you're flailing at me rather than recognizing that your own data shows anti-abortion sentiment is not dominated by men. Your assumptions are biased, your conclusions are wrong, and yet you seem unwilling or unable to admit that.
Accordingly, there was nothing "cherry picking" with the other poster's photos of women anti-abortion activists, because they make up about half. Apparently that is a half you need to ignore for some reason.
You tried to draw a conclusion by referencing Dr. Tiller, who was shot twice by a woman who is one of the most violent and radical anti-abortion activists in the country, who enabled, inspired, and approved Tiller's murder. You ignore the rabid rantings of Carly Fiorina, who now appears the most radical anti-abortion loon in the GOP Presidential primary.
Nationally, radical anti-reproductive rights legislation is routinely introduced and fought for by women fully as much as by men.
Your argument that somehow this non-gender based issue is a men vs women debate is objectively false and unhelpful.
Just trying to help.
Last thing I needed to see before going to bed tonight was Ben Carson pregz...
They don't talk about men who pressure women into abortions, because they say it's inconvenient or it's expensive to raise children. And they're not the ones who go through the hell of pregnancy, labor, and delivery.
A lot of control freak men will pressure women into having an abortion, or leave them if they don't have an abortion, or decide to punish them for 18 years by demanding custody and child support from the woman (community property states are equal). Because they were too good to discuss birth control with the woman, or wear a rubber, avoiding responsibility, and blaming everything on the women. They're irresponsible.
Because having a beautiful, healthy baby is such a horrible thing. Especially when the man has a good job, good insurance and can afford it. Some people just don't understand nice.
So damn fucking true. 
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Hardly gained any weight at all!
