Topic: There's a difference between "pro-life" and "pro-birth."
Anonymous A started this discussion 5 years ago#101,456
Why are so-called “pro-life” people silent when it comes to children in cages, cutting medical benefits to the poor, forcing children back to school during a pandemic, bombing cities and villages in far-away lands, the mistreatment of minorities, and a host of other state-sponsored policies that are anything but pro-life? At some point, you’d think they’d understanding there’s more to being pro-life than just forcing women to have children, which isn’t being pro-life at all, but pro-birth.
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 4 minutes later[^][v]#1,145,631
Because those children should pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
In seriousness, it's about control and punishment. Control over womens' reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. This is made obvious when you realise how many anti-abortion legislators have had abortions (or their wives have). They always have extenuating circumstances and deserve an abortion but all those poor black women just should have accepted that having sex can lead to an 18 year sentence. They also treat children as a punishment, which is...bizarre.
For being the party of small government, they sure like being inside the uterus of every female constituent.
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tteh !MemesToDNA joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,632
@previous (chill dog !!81dzJNNYL)
To be fair, a large government wouldn't so conveniently fit into womens' twats. ?
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL replied with this 5 years ago, 55 seconds later, 8 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,633
@previous (tteh !MemesToDNA)
Yes, I was thinking that. Maybe that's how they fit through the cervix.
tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 5 years ago, 8 seconds later, 8 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,634
But yeah - "pro-life" is a serious misnomer. They don't give a shit about human life.
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 11 seconds later, 9 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,635
> Why are so-called “pro-life” people silent when it comes to children in cages, cutting medical benefits to the poor, forcing children back to school during a pandemic, bombing cities and villages in far-away lands, the mistreatment of minorities, and a host of other state-sponsored policies that are anything but pro-life?
Because as soon as you're born Republicans stop giving a shit about you until you reach military age. They don't give a fuck about 'the sanctity of life', they just want to chain women to an animal cycle of reproduction and become broodmares for the United States military. To dress it up as noble they appeal to the backwards-assed moral philosophy of 2nd century desert tribes.
tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 5 years ago, 13 seconds later, 9 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,636
@1,145,633 (chill dog !!81dzJNNYL)
The plot thickens. ?
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,638
Arguing with anti-autonomy people on their own terms is batshit and stupid. It's like trying to convince a 15-year-old atheist that Santa Claus exists.
tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 5 years ago, 9 seconds later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,639
@1,145,635 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
And then, when you hit military age and decide to enlist, they also cease to give a solitary toss. They don't care about servicemen or women, nor about veterans.
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Coil E. Leafeon !QnI1ArmPmY joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 6 minutes later, 17 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,641
@1,145,631 (chill dog !!81dzJNNYL)
There are many other ways that people are controlled, but they're not as dramatic so nobody talks about them. It's not only women whom are controlled
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 5 years ago, 8 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,642
> There are many other ways that people are controlled, but they're not as dramatic so nobody talks about them. It's not only women whom are controlled
This is obvious and irrelevant to her point, which was about the control over women's reproductive rights; an issue that does, in fact, only affect women.
Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 28 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,644
Democrats are the real pro-life. This unedited comment brought to you by Meta. Thank you.
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Coil E. Leafeon !QnI1ArmPmY replied with this 5 years ago, 5 minutes later, 34 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,646
@1,145,642 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Let's go whole hog and split into separate races, like the feminists of the 80s and 90s wanted. When we become interplanetary we can go our own ways and end like some scrub races in a StarTrack episode where each of the races diverged into having slightly different face ridges and social structures
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 38 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,648
@previous (Coil E. Leafeon !QnI1ArmPmY)
Yes, let's address real examples of oppression today by modelling ourselves on hypothetical Star Trek scenarios several millennia from now.
Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 5 years ago, 8 minutes later, 47 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,145,650
@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
It's 2020. You must express your political policy in terms of Star Wars, Harry Potter, or Marvel superhero movies.
Republicans are Slytherin and --Hillary-- Biden is Dumbledore. Or something like that.
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL replied with this 5 years ago, 15 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,145,652
@1,145,641 (Coil E. Leafeon !QnI1ArmPmY)
Yes, obviously. At no point did I say that only women are controlled and only through anti-abortion laws.
But this post is about how women are controlled through anti-abortion laws.
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Coil E. Leafeon !QnI1ArmPmY replied with this 5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,145,653
@previous (chill dog !!81dzJNNYL)
I just thought it would be more fun if we took it offtopic