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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[liminalia]

Yeah, I was about to remark on that "superior" wording. WTF?

[elialshadowpine]

ZOMG. I love your icon. XD

[liminalia]

Feel free to take with credit if you like. :)

[savannahdreamer]

You, as always delightfully sum things up. I am lucky and have never had to make that moral decision myself. I can't imagine facing it in a world where I had no options but to be trapped as an incubator for a fetus I don't want for nine months, and I am saddened and disgusted every time another women says that she champions that proto-life over mine and the lives of her fellows.

[vivian_shaw]

We just place a life, or potential for life, above comfort.

No. They place the potential for life above extant life.

Pro-lifers do not take into account the fact that hey, guess what, the woman in this equation is already alive, fully formed, functional, capable of paying taxes, whereas the thing she wants to abort is a clump of dividing cells. The inalienable rights of the clump of cells obviously trump the so-alienable rights of the woman inside whose body the cells are dividing.

All together now: MY BODY, NOT YOURS.

[naamah_darling]

They place the potential for life above extant life.

Thank you. I was trying to think of a way to articulate that.

[vivian_shaw]

It's like a reproductive version of the Animal Farm line.

All life is sacred, but potential life is more sacred than regular life (which should be sacrificed for its sake).

[siliconshaman]

What do you expect from a cult that believes that in order to get it good in the afterlife, you have to suffer in this one?

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.

[copperwise]

Well, she's right...SHE is an annoying bitch.

[naamah_darling]

I was [this close] to pointing that out to her, believe me. The only reason I didn't was because she was being fucking stupid and offensive, but not deliberately rude.