24th April 2023, 12:44 PM
Alright, so what we have now is the realization that someone who says "I'm pro life but I wouldn't base decisions on it" is a liar, always and in all situations. They've made that very clear up in the sucream quart.
What's also become abundantly clear is that the people in charge do not care about children. They merely pretend to. They are, on the one hand, wanting to banish abortion in all cases they can get away with and ban trans people as well (and, if the rumbling random diatribes Ben Shapiro and the like went off on last Valentine's day are any indication, asexuals are in their sights as well.... goodie...). On the other hand they don't even want to feed children, are okay with them dying from easily preventable disease, and oh yes, are entirely fine with letting children get gunned down rather than do VERY basic laws just about everyone can agree on like not allowing anyone with a history of domestic abuse to own guns. While some of the voters actually manage to believe these contradictory things, the far right fascists are just manipulating the things leftists care about to their own twisted ends, smirking all the while.
So, let me amend my position. Now that we can see, in real time, the consequences of laws of any sort and any severity, on a state by state level, we now know the costs to countless women in terms of disease, death, and raw trauma were NEVER worth it. It's become a horror show all over again, and history repeats. We've got numerous "underground railroads" being set up just to allow all the horrible cases of children getting pregnant or people with literally braindead fetuses to handle the medical problem in ways the law simply isn't equipped to handle. The sheer nuance of medical knowledge means the crude instrument of law isn't fit for purpose in deciding what the "right" call even is.
It really is an ethical decision that must be allowed to be decided individually between doctor and patient, and it must remain so until we reach a point of human development where pregnancy itself fades from human memory in favor of like.. you know those eggs I mentioned earlier.
What's also become abundantly clear is that the people in charge do not care about children. They merely pretend to. They are, on the one hand, wanting to banish abortion in all cases they can get away with and ban trans people as well (and, if the rumbling random diatribes Ben Shapiro and the like went off on last Valentine's day are any indication, asexuals are in their sights as well.... goodie...). On the other hand they don't even want to feed children, are okay with them dying from easily preventable disease, and oh yes, are entirely fine with letting children get gunned down rather than do VERY basic laws just about everyone can agree on like not allowing anyone with a history of domestic abuse to own guns. While some of the voters actually manage to believe these contradictory things, the far right fascists are just manipulating the things leftists care about to their own twisted ends, smirking all the while.
So, let me amend my position. Now that we can see, in real time, the consequences of laws of any sort and any severity, on a state by state level, we now know the costs to countless women in terms of disease, death, and raw trauma were NEVER worth it. It's become a horror show all over again, and history repeats. We've got numerous "underground railroads" being set up just to allow all the horrible cases of children getting pregnant or people with literally braindead fetuses to handle the medical problem in ways the law simply isn't equipped to handle. The sheer nuance of medical knowledge means the crude instrument of law isn't fit for purpose in deciding what the "right" call even is.
It really is an ethical decision that must be allowed to be decided individually between doctor and patient, and it must remain so until we reach a point of human development where pregnancy itself fades from human memory in favor of like.. you know those eggs I mentioned earlier.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)