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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by aftbit on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:31AM (#31863756)
Why? Guns kill (order of magnitude) about 4,000 children each year[1] in the USA. There are (order of magnitude) about 800,000 abortions each year[2] in the USA. If you are one of the people who believes that unborn child lives are worth the same as adult lives, then you should be 200 times more concerned about abortion than gun violence.

1: https://wisqars.cdc.gov/fatal-reports

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_Uni...

Here's how to set up WISQARS for that report:

  2020, United States
  Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
  All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 18
  ICD-10 Codes: W32-W34,X72-X74,X93-X95,Y22-Y24, Y35.0,\*U01.4
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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by RC_ITR on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:00PM (#31864360)
The propaganda win of the century is classifying chemical abortions (roughly half of that 800k) as abortions.

It’s a pill that basically forces a woman to have a period regardless of whether there’s an embryo in the lining or not. You can only do it before an embryo even resembles a human being.

And yet, it’s as at risk as anything else.

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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by aftbit on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:25PM (#31864940)
I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!
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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by ModernMech on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:51AM (#31864144)
Guns outpaced accidents for the first time as the leading cause of death for children in 2020. Now that abortion is illegal in half the country, will those same conservative abortion crusaders direct their attention to saving kids from guns? Somehow I don’t think so, but I guess we will see…
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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by bmelton on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:16PM (#31864721)
Abortion is not now "illegal in half the country" -- it may become so, but it isn't that today and this decision didn't make it that today

Moreover, guns may have outpaced automotive deaths, but they have not outpaced "accidents" writ large.

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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by Gordonjcp on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:02AM (#31874515)
> Moreover, guns may have outpaced automotive deaths, but they have not outpaced "accidents" writ large.

How many "accidents" cause school shootings? The US is literally the only country where this happens.

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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by Gordonjcp on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:51AM (#31873148)
Right, but that's just it - they do not care about unborn children. They care about forcing their idiotic Taliban-like views on others.
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