Quote (Santara @ 16 Apr 2022 00:46)
Conclusion: He certainly has given an absolutely enormous charitable donation to something.
That you can't see past your own (mis)conception of my position is not my fault. The "right" to kill another human being is no such thing.
Biologically speaking, there is no other point in the human life cycle where the parents' genetic offal ceases to become offal and instead becomes a new organism: conception.
I am not in a position to force my daughter to do anything, she's an adult who gets to make her own decisions. All I can hope to do is give advice that she will consider.
it's funny how the entire secular developed world sees that differently. i mean, you can do your best to frame the issue dishonestly, make dumb and obviously flawed analogies, and appeal to emotions - but again, your personal feelings regarding this issue should not matter to other people. yet you support bigots who draft legislation to force their backward religious views onto others.
so your daughter gets to make her own decision but other people's daughters don't? or do you think she also deserved to be locked up if she didn't want to have a rapist's baby? not quite clear on this. would you try to convince her to have it, regardless of what it did to here emotionally and physically?
anyway, you're not stupid person, so i assume you realise why those legislations are introduced (cheap pandering). i'm reasonably sure by now you're aware they won't actually prevent abortions, just make them more dangerous, and punish women who get caught (disproportionally affecting minority and poor women - as intended - by the legislators, not you). i know you know that the people pushing for this outright oppose measures that would actually prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortions.
so i guess what it comes down to is that you just think your personal feelings are more important than women's rights, the predictable suffering the legislation you support will lead to, and the general consensus that modern societies arrived at, trying to weigh self-determination against the rights of a zygote.
for some reason i had to think of this meme:
This post was edited by fender on Apr 15 2022 05:24pm