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Whatever, American women won't stand for having their rights taken away. If you try to, you'll have a fight on your hands. Good luck with your stance, you're going to need it. Guys like you will not be remembered fondly by history, you'll be remembered as backwards and anti-woman because that's what it is to be against women having choices over what happens in their own bodies.

Nathan Phillips, whose standoff with high-school students on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last week captured viral attention online, has often discussed his military past.

The Native American activist, seen beating a drum Friday as some teens from Covington High School in Kentucky surrounded and mocked him, has referred to himself as a “Vietnam-times” veteran. He described in interviews getting spat on and called a baby killer by a “hippie girl,” and told the Detroit Free Press on Saturday that “I’m a Marine Corps veteran and I know what that mob mentality can be like.”

The incident also has led to scrutiny of Phillips’ service record after an organization representing him, the Lakota People’s Law Project, described him as a Vietnam veteran in a news release and numerous media reports identified him as one afterward.

In reality, Phillips served from June 1972 to May 1976 in the Marine Corps Reserve, a service spokeswoman, Yvonne Carlock, said Wednesday. He did not deploy and left the service as a private after disciplinary issues. From October 1972 to February 1973, he was classified as an anti-tank missileman, a kind of infantryman, Carlock said. He then became a refrigerator technician for the majority of his service.

Daniel Paul Nelson, a leader in the Lakota People’s Law Project, said in an interview that his group made the error and Phillips himself never told it that he served in Vietnam. The group, Nelson said, “trusted what we had seen” in previous stories about Phillips, some of which also referred to him erroneously as a Vietnam veteran.

Phillips, who turns 64 next month, is not old enough to have deployed to Vietnam as a Marine infantryman, prompting accusations that he was lying about his service.

The military will typically provide basic details about an individual’s military service within a day, but the situation with Phillips was complicated because he enlisted under another name associated with a family that raised him, Nelson said. He provided Phillips’ full Social Security number to The Washington Post with Phillips’ permission to help clear up the confusion.

This is all going into that Native American guy that everybody keeps labeling as a Vietnam vet, and he is not,” Shipley said in the video. “A lot of these news outlets are using that claim of ‘Vietnam vet’ to kind of beef that story up and make it look even worse.”

Shipley, who did not respond to an interview request Wednesday, noted that Phillips enlisted under another name and spent the majority of his time in the military as a refrigerator technician. He questioned how that squares with an April 2018 report by Vogue magazine in which Phillips is quoted saying that he was a “recon ranger,” a position that does not exist in the military.

“I have a relative here who said he’d lead the way and scout ahead for us,” Phillips said in the story, which describes a protest at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. “You know, I’m from Vietnam times. I’m what they call a recon ranger. That was my role. So I thank you for taking that point position for me.”

Nelson said that Phillips’ comments at Standing Rock were taken out of context, and that Phillips actually was referring to the work they were doing at the time on the reservation.

In other interviews, Phillips has consistently described being a veteran of “Vietnam times.”

In 2000, he told The Washington Post that he was a patriot who had served as “a Marine Corps infantryman” in the 1970s. He did not claim to have served in Vietnam and did not mention leaving the infantry after a few months to become a refrigerator technician.

In 2015, he described himself in a video interview with MLive as “a Vietnam veteran times,” and stated that he served from 1972 to 1976.

Men who didn’t want kids and accidentally got a woman pregnant shouldn’t have to pay a dime.

If you want to prevent abortion, you need to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Men seem unable (or unwilling) to admit that they cause 100% of them.

I realize that’s a bold statement. You’re likely thinking, “Wait. It takes two to tango!” While I fully agree with you in the case of intentional pregnancies, I argue that all unwanted pregnancies are caused by the irresponsible ejaculations of men. All of them.

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Pregnancies happen when men have an orgasm. Unwanted pregnancies happen when men orgasm irresponsibly.

A woman can be the sluttiest slut in the entire world, she can love having orgasms all day and all night long, and she will never find herself with an unwanted pregnancy unless a man shows up and ejaculates irresponsibly. Though our society tends to villainize female pleasure, women’s enjoyment of sex does not equal unwanted pregnancy and abortion. Men’s enjoyment of sex and irresponsible ejaculations do.

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If you actually care about reducing or eliminating the number of abortions in our country, simply hold men accountable for their actions.

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Here’s another prevention idea: All males in the U.S. could get a vasectomy when they are ready to be sexually active. Vasectomies are very safe, highly reversible, and about as invasive as a woman getting an IUD implanted.

Anti abortion isn’t anti women.

What facial expressions ? There were none , he didn't even blink. Either I can't read facial expressions ( possible ) or you are seeing things that are not there. I didn't see any body language either ( slight head nodding ? ). Yeah he had a monotonous tone though ( so do I )

My GF said he appeared coached which is totally understandable in this situation.

Side convo: Why would you oppose tax dollars paying for abortions? You’d rather spend 18+ years worth of welfare payements for a single mom and the kid she had when she was 15 instead?

Single payer socialized medicine > American nonsense that costs more money and delivers worse healthcare.

wha???? you DON'T see that look of utter condescension on that punk's face? that SNEER? how could anybody NOT see those things?

The mountain out of a molehill just keeps getting taller. People are just repeating themselves because there was never much to talk about in the first place.

That’s in the original video, which is what I think you’re referencing. We’re talking about the interview, where IMO, he looks & sounds very insincere.

Said from your place of white privilege in America.

wearing a campaign hat, 2 yrs after the fact of campaign, which is never done.

I've seen plenty of people wearing Obama hope and yes we can etc shirts.