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    they care more about the abortion because if she doesn’t carry it to term, they’ll have one less child to rape.

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    10-1 he’s had to drive some 12 year old across state lines to get his baby out of her.

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    In all seriousness, have you ever met a woman who “just” had an abortion? Without any internal struggle? Who “just” made an appointment, walked in, walked out? Not scared of how close it was to an life altering event for the woman? With not difficult feelings to the possible child? “Just” another day in her life?

    Anyone?

    I just don’t believe that those women exist in large numbers but it feels like they think that is what every abortion is.

    Ps: his example feels weirdly specific to me.

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      I have. It was a friend who already had two kids, didn’t want (or couldn’t raise) more. She arranged the procedure as soon as she found she was pregnant again. Went to the appointment, got the embryo removed and that was all.

      And it was ok, it was her decision (supported by her partner by the way) and nobody should have a shit to say about that.

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      Remember when Republicans made up the idea of “partial birth abortion” and (rather successfully) used to to convince people that there were women out there who purposely waited until they were in fucking labor to arbitrarily decide to abort?

      Pisses me off how successful that was.

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      These people are often out of touch and think this is just contraception with murder included.

      Also the 12 year old is supposed to have the child in secrecy on his cult compound or what? Is he the dad and/or grandpa what’s going on here?

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      In all my years I’ve only met one woman that didn’t really seem to care. It was someone I worked with at the time, early 2000s. When we were work friends she informed me she had just gotten her 6th procedure. At the time I was dating a girl who had one done as a teen and it deeply impacted her. So the idea of getting a 6th and just acting like it wasn’t a big deal really shocked me. So those people the right are talking about do exist in small quantities. It’s also none of my business what those people do with their bodies. However I can’t help but ask at what point do you seek alternative contraceptive methods? Shit even the old pull out method is highly effective if you do it right.

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    So according to the right wing a 12 y/o should be raped and should carry & raise a baby for the rest of her life just because “AbOrTiOn Is MuRdEr”.

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        Same as the other polar extreme dogma.

        … Gotta be some remedies for that, so people are alleviated of their unreasonableness and irrationality.

        … … Mattias Desmet’s book The Psychology of Totalitarianism springs to mind. Main thrust of remedy is to keep speaking sensible nuance to those in a mass formation/groupthink/totalitarianised-psyche, even though it seems risky as they increasingly see any and all atrocities as necessary virtues, and double-down all the harder the more they’re confronted with the contradictions, the self-inconsistency, … which does seem more than just dangerous, but then you’ve got to compare that risk of danger with the greater escalating harm into worsening atrocities that happens all the faster when they go unchallenged.

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          There is no polar extreme opposite of the anti abortion argument. It doesn’t exist.

          Nobody is happy about getting an abortion. Some people might feel relief, but it’s not something they want to go through.

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            Also the equivalent extreme to the anti choice side would be “everyone is forced to have abortions” which while something close has been done (namely via population control methods and eugenics) those are widely agreed upon by the pro choice side to be similarly evil to prohibiting all abortions for the same reason (denial of bodily autonomy). In fact, in the modern day the eugenicists typically vote for the same parties as the ones wanting to prohibit abortions.

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          Same as the other polar extreme dogma.

          My friend, after reading the rest of your comment, I suspect this is just a very unfortunate choice of words. Because you go on to talk about totalitarianism and although totalitarian regimes can force people to get abortions, it’s not a commonly held political view, at least among Westerners.

          I suspect you meant to say “other extreme dogma.” But your use of “the” and “polar” would make every native English speaker think you intended to say “same as the extreme polar opposite dogma,” which means you’re talking about pro-choice extremism specifically.

          I can’t be sure that you didn’t intend that meaning. If you did intend to mean pro-choice extremism, then you brought the response upon yourself. But if you didn’t, may I suggest you be more careful with wording, especially in your first sentences?

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          Ummm one extreme is doing the right thing and one extreme is doing the wrong thing so I don’t know the point you are trying to make. Yes there are some cases when Abortion can cause harm to the mother than actually giving birth. But those specific cases are for the DOCTORS AND MOTHERS TO DECIDE and not anyone else.

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            …is that first part supposed to be a serious argument? The other side would say the exact same thing. It’s also an issue that inherently will never be black and white because children don’t develop in discrete stages, you can never point to a specific time and say “until here it’s ok”. Some of the arguments for abortion even still apply post-birth, such as the parents not being capable of caring for the child properly, making everyone including the child miserable. And the child a day before birth isn’t all that different from the child the day after.

            I’d choose birth as the arbitrary cutoff point just because the child stops being part of the mother at that time and we have to put a limit somewhere, but I’d probably lose a lot of people with that (and I’d also still say that’s the right thing).

            When there exist people unironically making the argument that factory farming is good actually because any life is better than no life, of course there will be a lot more wanting to just defend life for the sake of it even if it just makes everyone involved more miserable.

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              You only need one argument pro-choice and that is “Her body, her choice”.

              And wtf are you talking about post-natal abortion? Literally no sane person is calling for that.

              It’s really simple: Nobody has the right to use somebody else’s body without their consent. And that goes doubly if this is about a lump of cells.

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              I feel like you’re not stating your arguement very well because I don’t actually understand the point you’re trying to make. There is the anti-abortion crowd and then that’s it, there is no other side to the arguement.

              People who are pro-choice are all about enabling others to make their own determinations, people who are anti-abortion are against people being able to make their own determinations. The difference is the pro-choice crowd aren’t forcing abortions on people who don’t want them, which would be the antithesis viewpoint. You see how the are not equivalent?

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              This isn’t even a philosophical issue — as much as the Right wants it to be — but a legal one. The basic concept is a pregnant individual must have the right to abort the pregnancy at any moment during. Law shouldn’t say if it is feasible or moral to abort the pregnancy because there is only one legal entity here — the mother. That choice should lay with the one who is pregnant. The feasibility of the pregnancy/abortion should be determined by medical professionals because each individual case is different.

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              Just want to say I appreciate you having the courage to provide counterpoints in a very biased space.

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                They’re not providing counter viewpoints They’re just being intransitive. There is no such thing as the force everyone to have abortions viewpoint so they are arguing in bad faith.

                A lot of their comments are completely nonsensical as well, e.g.

                When there exist people unironically making the argument that factory farming is good actually because any life is better than no life

                I mean what the hell has that got to do with anything? We’re supposed to be talking about the morality of abortions and they throw in animal cruelty in there as if that’s some kind of counterpoint. Also I don’t think literally anyone thinks that factory farming is moral because otherwise the animals would never have existed, I’ve never heard of anyone espouse that view. Not that it would matter even if they did, because it’s got literally nothing to do with the topic at hand.

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      The 12-year-old would die in childbirth as god intended. These people don’t actually care about the baby they just care about having power over other people.

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      There’s a group that see falling teenage pregnancy and say that’s the reason birth rates are falling In the west. They then equate falling birth rates with the erasure of culture. Therefore, in their head, teenage pregnancy is necessary as is carrying it to term.

      A wholly messed up view.

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        Jesus can you imagine how messed up for the next generation would be if the vast majority of them were raised by parents who were basically kids themselves?

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      Well of course, the divine providence of their perfect God guided the penis to this holy deed. Man is not the interfere with His will.

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      It’s even worst than that, yes it’s all that AND it doesn’t apply to them, namely they’ll shout that insanity to each other, and the whole World, to see but when it’s “them” then they, rationally of course, find a clinic. Absolutely garbage of human beings who are not coherent. Do as I say, not as I do.

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    You know what far-right religious nuts DO NOT like to know?

    God has aborted more babies than every doctor ever born. He delights in the blood, as I understand it. Can’t get hard without it. And how is Mary going to catch a stray savior load if God can’t get his cross up?

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        You know what far-right religious nuts DO NOT like to know?

        That Paul was doing law and order.

        ^ Best answer to that.

        I may have gone for “How old Mary [(and Joseph)] was.”

        How old?

        I hear apocryphal sources confirm 12 and 80.

        Or what Kaneh Bosm (in the original language bible’s description of the ingredients of the holy anointing oil that makes one christ) is correctly translated as.

        What's Kaneh Bosm?

        Cannabis.

        Implying what?

        The return of Christ is the restoration of Cannabis.

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      Dude why are some people here so weird? There are legitimate arguments that can be made even in the context of religion that definitely don’t step down to the same level of these right-wing nuts. Imagine you turn your argument pro-right. Don’t sound too dissimilar now huh?

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    Why does he even pick the case of a 12-year hold pregnant person ? Isn’t that like, the case were almost everyone can agree that abortion makes even more sense than usual ? Have i missed that somehow conservatives consider it to be worse than when adult people abort ?

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      At this point, I think a decent chunk of them are pedophiles with breeding fetishes who get off on the idea of impregnating children.

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      makes even more sense than usual

      You’re talking about the all-or-nothing, absolute rule, zero-sum game gang, here. The concept of nuance is so far removed from the conservative headspace, it may as well be science fiction.

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      I think their idea here is that 12 year olds should be in school instead of sneaking around getting abortions. Which makes sense if you don’t care about context or lack basic humanity

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        I know when I was 12 everyone was getting abortions. It was just the cool thing to do. Some girls would get together and have sleepover abortion parties. I went and got one myself just to see what all the fuss was about. Of course as a guy I got some pushback initially, but eventually I joined the cool crowd

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        12 year olds should be in school instead of sneaking around getting abortions.

        Absolutely! That’s why sex education, and talking about consent and safety are ao important.

        An 12 year old needing an abortion is such a tragedy, it should be prevented. But if it comes to that, if it is needed, she should have access to safe medical care.

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      No, what you missed is that these people are all pedophiles, and part of their weird Christian nationalism is that they hate women having agency, so they need to be impregnating them before that happens.

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      Most 12 year olds would risk death to give birth, so yes, most people would agree that both on the grounds that it’s a raped child and on the grounds that the pregnancy could be fatal to the mother.

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        Fatal to the mother is just a perk of pregnancy according to the Christians who hold life to be sacred.

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      No. No abortion makes sense to them (except their own wives’) when they use it as justification to remove agency and bodily autonomy from women.

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      It’s implied in their text that the 12-year old girl is the child of leftists and because of that is already sexually active. Since the left is sex positive that obviously means they’re teaching their kids to be deviants by a very young age. Obviously daughter of proper right wing Christian Americans would never do that because she blah, blah, blah.

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          Exactly, those liberal woke parents would otherwise persuade and or force her to have an abortion just because

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        Even that’s dumb because I grew up hearing that the Catholic girls are the ones you want to hook up with.

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      Maybe where they live a 12 year old girl can be expected to drive? So getting to a medical center two hours away is easy and convenient? and the nearest medical center is 2 hours away

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        It says “travel” which can mean by foot, bike, hitchhiking, zeppelin, the list goes on and on

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          Right. So it’s ok for a 12 year old pregnant girl to walk two hours to a medical center by themselves? No matter how correct and complete you try to be, there’s all kinds of wrong with this picture

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            there’s all kinds of wrong with this picture

            True but a school girl taking the bus just isn’t that bad. I’m not justifying anything else about it.

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      Maybe it’s meant to be extra edgy? This isn’t the tone you use when you try to convince people who aren’t already on your side.

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    Willing to bet brllyrrlly-whatever-the-fuck is also opposed to any kind of birth control or sex education that helps prevent 12 year olds getting pregnant.

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    The classic discussion

    “We’re fighting for the sanctity of life”

    “while grilling a piece of animal on the grill”

    “Human life”

    “Yet people die because of lack of healthcare or malnutrition”

    “Children”

    “And stil child mortality is rising”

    “Unborn life”

    “Yet we polute the environment and with that the unborn child”

    “It has a heartbeat, okay!”

    “So does a Leftist”

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    If a 12-year-old girl got raped and became pregnant, I’d rather live in a country in which she can contact medical services on her own, receive medical care without cost, and then the medical services contact the authorities, which can then investigate how a child became pregnant. Starting with the parents. Such things are quite often caused by close relatives.

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    Republicans when abortion: Noooo every life is sacred!!!111 ;(((((

    Republicans when someone gets cancer: “Well should’ve saved 250.000 dollars just in case. Go die peasant, public healthcare is communism!!!”

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      Now lets spend another trillion for this year’s megadeaths.

      “Pro-Life”.