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Rest assured, the new CDC director thinks ‘abortion surveillance’ is essential
(www.theguardian.com)
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I’ve never understood the pro-life argument.
First of all if you’re “pro-life” because you think abortion is murder — You should be vegan. If you’re really being consistent because you truly care about life, you shouldn’t be buying into an industry that kills 2 trillion living beings per year.
“LIFE IS SACRED! Excuse me for one second. Hi! Yes. Thank you. I’ll have one dead animal meat sandwich please. Yes. Medium rare. Perfect. Alright… where were we… right…”
Second, contraception is never perfect, and also rape happens. Bodily autonomy of a person who already exists overrides the rights of a person who doesn’t exist yet. You would never argue otherwise under any other circumstances. If men could get pregnant, this would not even be a question. Healthy people who haven’t been traumatized by lifetimes of misogyny and/or religious zealotry do not wish to bear the children of their rapists.
Third, Sperm can live in testicles for up to 3 months. If you jerk off and shoot sperm anywhere other than into an ovary, you murdered one to eight of your potential children, in favor of whatever sperm remains until your body generates more. You just shot the child “God wanted for you” onto a sock or a tissue, and it died.
If abortion is murder, so is male masturbation.
Fourth, most of the people arguing against abortion on TV have mistresses they pay to get abortions for. If you’re willing to fuel the fire of misogyny and social division, you’re probably willing to be a hypocrite about it too. These people don’t have standards or morals. They only have bank accounts and vested interests.
Fifth, if the mother would be killed bringing the child to term, the consensus is that we try to save the mother first. She’s already here. She’s already alive. She is already a member of society.
We already know that the person who is pregnant and everything he or she is, comes before the “potential person” who is currently nothing at all in the whole world… other than a fetus in a womb.
I agree with 1, 2, 4 and 5, completely, but the logic of 3 surpasses me. Sperm isn't a seed. Male masturbation and female periods aren't equal to abortion and murder.
Other than that solid points. There is so much hate for human life on the side of conservatives.
Sperm without an egg is not viable. That's my point. Your sperm alone will not produce a living child. An egg that was lost in a period would not have produced a living child on its own either. What's there to not understand? I get that you are referring to its potential to fertilize but this takes a string of good and valid arguments too far and to the absurd.
(Btw fertilizing an egg is a group effort and takes multiple sperm)
You can repeat it all you want, that doesn't make it more true
You have incredible projection and insecurity issues.
I just post this everytime:
In my eyes, any shred of legitimacy about pro-life in the US disappeared when the GOP told voters to forget about the Epstein Files and they collectively went along with it.
First, they don’t equate animal life to human life. Human life is the only thing that matters to them.
Second, there are several factors here as pro lifers have a wide range on this subject. Some argue that it’s ok for instances of rape, others say every conception is God’s will and shouldn’t be contested
Third, this is why they specifically argue that life begins at conception. Otherwise every wet dream and period would be a sin
Fourth, yeah, they’re a bunch of hypocritical batards that also claim to support traditional family values
Fifth, and she can produce more kids! But if we’re going to criminalize abortion and apparently miscarriages recently, this is a sacrifice they’re willing to make.
The pro life argument falls apart once you remove religious brainwashing from it. Then you can see it’s all about control. They need more poor people to steal labor from. They need more poor kids who get to 18 with no better prospect than military service or law enforcement. They want more desperate people.