gfm7175 (04-17-2019)
Not in the slightest.
Bigotry. Psychoquackery.
More psychoquackery.
More psychoquackery...
Any further psychoquackery and/or bigotry from you will be ignored on sight, as it is not adding anything substantive to this discussion...
How is it bigotry?
You keep leaning on the "psychoquackery" but you don't actually refute it.
Then you posture that it doesn't get to you, when it clearly does.
Look at us now, having a debate about your sincerity. This is exactly where I wanted this debate to be. I know you're not sincere in your beliefs. I think you know that too.
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
Well, the problem is that we can't have a debate about abortion without debating why you have the position you have.
We know it's got nothing to do with the sanctity of life...so what is it really about?
I believe it's about control. You want to control women legislatively because you cannot control them in your personal life. The fact that you cannot control women makes you angry because you think you're entitled to that control. I want to know where that entitlement came from.
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
gfm7175 (04-17-2019)
It's so not about "control"....
gfm7175 (04-17-2019)
Unfortunately, the right isn't interested in the abortion issue out of a concern for fetal life. If they were, they'd focus first on the low-hanging fruit -- all the ways you can prevent unnecessary fetal deaths without criminalizing a woman's decision to end an unwanted pregnancy. If they focused there, they'd find many on the left were their strongest allies. Among those ideas (most of which I stole from another forum):
(1) Make sure high-reliability contraception is convenient and affordable for everyone (e.g., get rid of the rule that lets certain privileged bosses deny their employees contraception coverage under their health insurance plans).
(2) Roll out proven birth-control education (e.g., sex-ed focused on preventative measures rather than the proven failure of abstinence-only education).
(3) Provide better subsidies for pre-natal healthcare (this will reduce miscarriages, which are obviously a threat to fetal life).
(4) Provide paid maternity leave (not only will this make taking a pregnancy to term more economically practical for people living paycheck to paycheck, but it will also cut down on women with complicated pregnancies engaging in the risky practice of working right up to delivery because they can't afford to have their income interrupted, and that will mean fewer pre-term births and miscarriages).
(5) Work to reduce the social stigma for unwed motherhood, which will cut back on abortions that occur because a woman can't face the stigma of people knowing she got pregnant out of wedlock.
(6) Better subsidies for obstetric and neonatal care, to cut down on infant mortality.
(7) Better subsidies for child care, so more economically distressed women can see a realistic path to raising a child.
(8) More government regulation of large-serving sugary drinks and other drivers of obesity (obesity significantly increases miscarriage rates).
Each of those things would reduce deaths by a lot more than tilting at windmills with abortion-criminalization laws, which will only tend to force the procedures underground or out of the country. This isn't like the pre-Roe era, when it was difficult for women to get abortions through means other than domestic clinics. These days, with the Internet, abortion pills, and cheap international travel, even if abortion were illegal nation-wide, most women with unwanted pregnancies would be able to figure out a work-around. So, other than the sick thrill of making their lives harder by forcing them into an illegal procedure or a trip abroad, there's little to be gained by the tack the right wing is taking. So, why aren't they taking a more effective and cooperative tack to reduce fetal deaths? The answer, of course, is that punishing women is the entirety of the point. They simply don't care about those fetuses, other than as an excuse for attacking women who make sexual decisions they don't approve of.
christiefan915 (04-17-2019), LV426 (04-17-2019), rjhenn (04-17-2019)
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