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ShazzieB

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3. Same here.
Fri Dec 16, 2022, 12:35 AM
Dec 2022

See the second pic from the right in my signature line, below. No, that's not me, but those women speak for me and, it sounds like, for you.

I think the people who work in those fake "clinics" actually believe most of what they're saying. When someone who is already anti-abortion hears that stuff, confirmation bias kicks in, and it doesn't even occur to them to question or verify.

I once found myself in a conversation with a woman representing one of those groups (quite by accident; I did NOT seek it out), and when I tried to tell her abortion does not increase the risk of breast cancer, she flatly refused to believe me. In her mind, she "knew" the "facts," and there was no way she could believe she was wrong about any of it. I know a brick wall when I see one and noped on out of there at that point, but the experience showed me something about how those people think that I will never forget.

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