Spot the Irony

[naamah_darling]

Original Poster: I'm tolerant of most opinions, but I just can't respect pro-lifers.

Me: Right there with you. But, then, why should I? They have no respect for me as a woman.

Random Person: Speaking as a pro-life woman over here - it's not that we have no respect for women. We just place a life, or potential for life, above comfort. Does that

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Re: Depends.

[ginmar]

Of course, it's interesting that so many of these wee buggers are so hostile to BC, isn't it?

Re: Depends.

[elialshadowpine]

Seriously. You would think that someone against abortion would be all for birth control. (And the sane pro-life people I know are.)

Re: Depends.

[ginmar]

Well, they think we're all as stupid as they are. I look at actions, and results of those actions. The supposed Pro Lifers in America today thikn of motherhood as a punishment, sex as a crime, and pregnancy as a sentence.The children of undesirables are only useful as cannon fodder, lives soon snuffed out in the use of Empire. Men not white and rich are useful only as labor, and all women are whores, just at different stages of development.

These guys look at Dickens' novels as the way they want their country to be, with the people at the top raking in the cash off the bodies of the numerous dead and used up bodies of the plentiful poor. They'd pull teeth if there were gold crowns in the offing, this crowd. Life matters only if it's that of a rich white man and his stable of family members. You get the idea that in these guys' fantasies, there'd be harems and servants and laborers, and the only people who could speak up were the patriarchs.

Re: Depends.

[ginmar]

If any but the already-existing life takes precendence, then one does not respect life.

This is an entirely created issue. Not until female midwives began to pose an economic competition to doctors did abortion become an issue. Abortion services were openly advertised in papers, including Catholic publications. The Catholic church, of course, would not baptise miscarriages or stillbirths, sending these wanted pregnancies off to Limbo. Law and religion both abided by the concept of "quickening' which is when the fetus could be detected by the woman. Then as now, the men most opposed to abortion were also devoted to stamping out the burgeoning birth control movement as well, because it was a woman's duty to 'indulge' her husband till she died of exhaustion or internal injuries caused by a dozen or more pregnancies and deliveries.

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[pixxelpuss]

The phrase "Quickening" always makes me think of the Highlander movies.

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[ginmar]

There can be only one.

I met someone like that...

[ravenskye8]

There was one pro-life woman I actually thought was okay... yet seriously naieve