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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
May 12 2022 13:05 GMT
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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
May 12 2022 13:24 GMT
#72702
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NewSunshine
Profile Joined July 2011
United States5938 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-05-12 16:01:13
May 12 2022 14:06 GMT
#72703
You are free to be personally pro-life, and personally anti-abortion. I've got no problem with that. Do that. That's great. What I have a problem with, is forcing everyone to believe and act as you would. I've heard many, many complaints from the right about how, as free thinkers + Show Spoiler +
you gotta say so or it's not true
, they don't want the thought police enforcing groupthink on everyone. But then they turn around and tell everyone how to make their decisions regarding a pregnancy.

Like, the arrogance you must have to think your approval is either desired or required for someone to be able to make their own decisions in planning their family. Go ahead and seek the blessing of folks in your circle, and keep that shit there. Save your opinions for the people who care.

I personally find a lot of reasons to be in favor of giving someone the right to have an abortion. But I feel this is the big one: nobody asked y'all.
"If you find yourself feeling lost, take pride in the accuracy of your feelings." - Night Vale
Neneu
Profile Joined September 2010
Norway492 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-05-12 14:23:07
May 12 2022 14:21 GMT
#72704
On May 12 2022 22:05 JimmiC wrote:
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On May 12 2022 14:51 BlackJack wrote:
If you really think abortion is killing a baby you probably shouldn't make exceptions.

Sure and by the same logic if you think jews/muslims whoever are pure evil, no expectations there either.

This is why we as a society tend to not make rules based on what peopld really think. Son of sam really thought those people were demons for example.



Well if you really think abortion is murder (which in my head means that you are an idiot), it doesn't become less murder just because the dad is a rapist and/or your uncle. It's the only consistent logical view.

If you think abortion is murder, but want to make exceptions on rapes/incests, you either don't really think it's murder or you are experiencing heavy cognitive dissonance.
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-05-12 14:54:14
May 12 2022 14:53 GMT
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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14220 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-05-12 16:01:53
May 12 2022 16:00 GMT
#72706
If you really believe abortion is killing a baby then you should be for abortions when the baby is dead already. Therefore you should believe in exceptions. Many pro lifers don't so we know it's not about the baby it's about controlling women bodies and doing what they want with them.

Do you still think this will lower tensions in America introvert?
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
May 12 2022 16:12 GMT
#72707
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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States44439 Posts
May 12 2022 16:16 GMT
#72708
Rather than abort fetuses just induce birth prematurely, issue the baby with their bootstraps and AR-15, and let god decide if they live or die with their underdeveloped organs. No handouts, no forcing people to support others against their will. Do we want to raise a generation of commies that just expect everything to be given to them for free? If the premature babies want to live they’ll grow the necessary organs and if they don’t that’s a moral failing. God is all powerful and will oxygenate the righteous premature babies.
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Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28923 Posts
May 12 2022 19:57 GMT
#72709
Introvert, I have a question. What is your ideal abortion law? Because I get that you're annoyed by the 'pro-life' movement being mis-characterized or whatever - but I haven't seen you actually cite your own opinion, besides saying that you're happy to see roe repealed. Then you're basically attacking some of the interpretations some people are citing as the possible new future (for example thinking that the life of the mother won't be a valid reason). I agree that I think most states will at least allow permissions for the life of the mother (however, I'm not equally sure about rape/incest, nor about 'serious health issue' for the mother/baby).

Then I see you state that 'some states will have sane laws', that '... draws the line about where most Americans would like to see it drawn. 15ish weeks.', that 'Democrats have gone from "safe, legal, and rare" to considering a law in line with a number of European nations as a great blow against human rights'.

Essentially, it sounds like you're constructing your argument like you are arguing in favor of woman's right to choose until week 15 but against late term abortions, but I had the impression your own opinion was actually quite a bit more restrictive than that. Would love to know what, in your mind, constitutes grounds for legal abortion.
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BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
May 12 2022 20:30 GMT
#72710
I think everyone should state their opinion on what their ideal abortion laws are. That way we can create a barometer on how much each of us hates and wants to control women. I'll go first. Personally I think viability is a good end-point for allowing abortion. So around 20 weeks if we're being generous to the fetus or 22 weeks if we're being generous to the birthing person.
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-05-12 20:54:32
May 12 2022 20:54 GMT
#72711
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NewSunshine
Profile Joined July 2011
United States5938 Posts
May 12 2022 20:59 GMT
#72712
Most people who are pregnant have no idea for well over 6 weeks. The architects of the 6 week ban are well aware of this.
"If you find yourself feeling lost, take pride in the accuracy of your feelings." - Night Vale
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany12080 Posts
May 12 2022 21:18 GMT
#72713
Yeah, from a choice perspective, abortions should be available at least until something like "time the woman almost certainly knows + 1 month". So, a minimum of roughly 3 months, i guess.
BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
May 12 2022 21:19 GMT
#72714
On May 13 2022 05:54 JimmiC wrote:
Seems like a dichish response given how nice Drone is to you, it is not about comparing how much people want to control or hate women it is that if we transparently know where each other stand then you can find where you have common ground and where you have differnces.

Im pretty happy with our laws where there is no criminality attached but no health practioners will do it without a medical reason after 23 weeks 6 days, some are not willing before that point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada#:~:text=Abortion in Canada is legal,and provincial health-care systems.



I can barely understand your posts of run-on sentences and spelling errors. Are you posting with something that doesn't have a spell check function?

My post is not a response to Drone. His post gave me the idea for my post. If we want to criticize pro-lifers for lacking consistency and wanting to control what a woman does with her body we should be prepared to state what restrictions, if any, we think should be placed on abortion. Then it's just a question of who is applying the proper amount of control over a woman's body.
BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
May 12 2022 21:31 GMT
#72715
On May 13 2022 06:18 Simberto wrote:
Yeah, from a choice perspective, abortions should be available at least until something like "time the woman almost certainly knows + 1 month". So, a minimum of roughly 3 months, i guess.


12 weeks is hella early. Pretty sure that would have been the earliest of any state until Texas came out with their 6 week ban.
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22703 Posts
May 12 2022 21:37 GMT
#72716
For reference, Dutch abortion law is up to 22-24 weeks (in theory 24, in practice 22 because of inaccuracies in determining the start of pregnancy after the fact)
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
ChristianS
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3304 Posts
May 12 2022 21:38 GMT
#72717
I think the more important policy barometer in the near future is likely to be how you think interstate differences in policy should be handled. If someone goes to CA to get an abortion, is that a crime? “Yes” would appear to conflict with normal conservative doctrine of federalism, “no” would undermine most of the moral weight of the cause. Was all this worth it just to make people drive further to get the abortions?

It would shock me if very many conservatives actually said they value the federalism part more; hardly anybody actually weights process concerns like that over getting real results on the issues. That sets up a legal standoff over jurisdictional issues. No idea how it turns out but we could get providers in blue states which make a point of guaranteeing, one way or another, that no medical information will be disclosed to other states’ law enforcement.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Robert J. Hanlon
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27478 Posts
May 12 2022 21:47 GMT
#72718
On May 13 2022 05:30 BlackJack wrote:
I think everyone should state their opinion on what their ideal abortion laws are. That way we can create a barometer on how much each of us hates and wants to control women. I'll go first. Personally I think viability is a good end-point for allowing abortion. So around 20 weeks if we're being generous to the fetus or 22 weeks if we're being generous to the birthing person.

I hate and want to control women, just not in this domain.

Personally I would allow abortions up to the point of viability, or at least in that ballpark. With exceptions for foetuses that would not survive birth if that’s picked up in scans etc.

Just if we’re laying cards on the table as per actual positions, which I think is a good idea.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
May 12 2022 21:51 GMT
#72719
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Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22703 Posts
May 12 2022 21:51 GMT
#72720
On May 13 2022 06:38 ChristianS wrote:
I think the more important policy barometer in the near future is likely to be how you think interstate differences in policy should be handled. If someone goes to CA to get an abortion, is that a crime? “Yes” would appear to conflict with normal conservative doctrine of federalism, “no” would undermine most of the moral weight of the cause. Was all this worth it just to make people drive further to get the abortions?

It would shock me if very many conservatives actually said they value the federalism part more; hardly anybody actually weights process concerns like that over getting real results on the issues. That sets up a legal standoff over jurisdictional issues. No idea how it turns out but we could get providers in blue states which make a point of guaranteeing, one way or another, that no medical information will be disclosed to other states’ law enforcement.
I have absolutely no doubt that Republican states that try to ban abortions will aim to make it illegal to travel out of state for an abortion.

This has nothing to do with 'state rights' or federalism.
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