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Apparently the pro-choice types who jump up and down in the street demanding that you keep your rosaries off their ovaries are entirely relaxed about the government getting its bureaucratics all over your lymphatics.

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Mark Steyn
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: December 8
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