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Women Aren’t As Gullible As The Left Wishes. The March for Life Proves It

  

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Via:  vic-eldred  •  6 years ago  •  149 comments

By:   By Kylee Zempel

Women Aren’t As Gullible As The Left Wishes. The March for Life Proves It
A powerful movement is grounded not on the self, but on others. Not on hatred of a president, but on love for womankind and compassion for the life they carry inside them.

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A 21-year-old girl just found out she’s pregnant.

She knows she can’t raise a child on her own, and her friends agree, urging her to come up with a rape story so she can get an exception for abortion. Unfortunately for her, police don’t have enough evidence of rape, so she carries the child to term. She’s referred to a couple attorneys looking for pregnant women seeking abortions, and her name gets attached to a case challenging Texas abortion law, during which time she gives birth and puts the child up for adoption. It takes three years of trials, but her case finally makes it to the Supreme Court. The year is 1973, and the case:   Roe v. Wade .

Fast forward to 1998. “Jane Roe,” whose real name is Norma McCorvey, has undergone a profound transformation, ideologically and spiritually. After years of pro-abortion activism culminating in a 7-2 abortion “victory” in a landmark Supreme Court case and then a biography, Roe converts to Christianity, abandoning her old ideas.

“I’m 100 percent pro-life,” she told the Associated Press. “I don’t believe in abortion even in an extreme situation. If the woman is impregnated by a rapist, it’s still a child. You’re not to act as your own God.”

Jane Roe wasn’t the only woman to see through the “pro-choice” lies. Add millions more people to that list — several hundred thousand of which gathered on the National Mall over the weekend to celebrate all human beings, including women, at the 47th annual March for Life.

The March for Life comes on the heels of another annual march in our nation’s capital, one marketed by the left to women. Particularly, empowered women. The Women’s March, however, is dwindling. Compared to the hundreds of thousands of reported attendees in 2017,   this year , organizers   expected only 10,000 . Why?

The Women’s March Isn’t About Women


I approached the Starbucks counter for my second cup of coffee when I ran into a group of half a dozen or so high school girls the day before the March for Life. Their innocent chatter and pleasant demeanor gave me the impression they were in town for the pro-life demonstration, but the “March for Life” drawstring bag slung over one girl’s shoulder confirmed my hunch. They told me they had caravanned in a group of 13 busses all the way from the Diocese of Wichita in Kansas. I asked if they had also attended the Women’s March, and when they said they hadn’t, I asked why not.

“I think the Women’s March is important,” a young woman named Lainie told me. “But the March for Life is … more important because it’s about a loss of life. I would rather speak for those who can’t.”

“We’re not even just marching for the babies. We’re marching for the women,” another student, Madeline, chimed in. “Because [abortion is] something no women should have to go through because that’s just an awful thing for women.”

Are women’s rights compatible with being pro-life? I asked. Can people be pro-women and against abortion?

“People see a conflict with women’s rights and pro-life,” Lainie said. “But those two don’t inherently contradict each other.”

They think we don’t care about women, Madeline added, sounding a little defeated from the unrelenting and untrue assumption about pro-lifers. “Obviously,   we’re   young women,” she said.

Indeed they are. But to today’s left, that doesn’t matter, for the Women’s March isn’t really about women at all.   According to NPR,   the 2020 Women’s March highlighted three primary issues — climate change, immigration, and reproductive rights — two of which aren’t unique to women at all, and one which is a manufactured entitlement that ultimately harms women. As my colleague Erielle Davidson   highlighted , the only true unifying doctrine of the Women’s March is a seething hatred for President Donald Trump and consequently an interminable desire to undo the 2016 election.

Where does this leave the millions of women who don’t vote with their ovaries? Who care about life inside the womb? Who don’t despise the president? Simple. There’s no place for them on the left.

The Left Doesn’t Care About Women or Choice


The party of pro-choice wants women to believe they don’t have a choice. For all their talk of reproductive “freedom,” the left wants women to be constrained by their anatomy to cast a vote for any “D”-delineated candidate. The left doesn’t want women to be empowered, to make the decisions that are truly best for them. For the left, only a monolithic mindset is acceptable: Women are oppressed, both by their babies and men, and can only find liberation in shaking off the patriarchal shackles that keep them from true happiness. Oh, and those patriarchal fetters come only from Republicans, who are all old, white males who don’t care about women’s health. Nothing could be further from the truth.

“Pro-life is pro-woman,” Denise Harle, legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Federalist in an interview. “It’s just wrong to pit a woman against her own child and act like a woman can’t succeed and be a mom. It’s a lie. And it’s really cruel. Any pregnancy, whether planned or unplanned, involves an innocent human being.”

Harle opened her coat, flashing her baby bump and a smile, herself living proof of the right’s true empowerment. “My first pregnancy was unplanned, and I have a 1 and a half year-old now, and I’ve got another one on the way,” the successful attorney said. “It’s a blessing.”

She continued, “These are the most vulnerable among us, and so women should be the first ones out there saying these are our babies, and we can be successful in the workplace and the home and be mothers too.”

What The March for Life Offers That the Women’s March Doesn’t


To anyone who has witnessed both the Women’s March and the March for Life, they can’t help but notice a few differences — in mission, in messaging, and in spirit. At the risk of sounding like Marianne Williamson, the two events exude entirely different auras. The March for Life offers something to women that the march specifically proffered to that feminine demographic simply doesn’t.

“Well, I hate to be sappy, but the truth is [the March for Life] offers rights based on love and inclusion rather than anger and exclusion,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, told The Federalist of the difference between the back-to-back marches. “And to answer the question, why is the Women’s March dwindling as the pro-life march grows? I think it’s because of that.”

She’s right; think of the contrast. “ My  body!  My  choice!” or “Love them both.” Denying that even imperfect circumstances can still afford quality of life, or embracing   disorder-defying joy . Human rights violation or human dignity. A woman’s right to choose, or a woman’s right to fulfill her extraordinary destiny.

The March for Life Seeks to Liberate Women


If liberation is what women seek, they should abandon the progressive hive mind and stop consuming the lie that to be an empowered woman is to take up the feminist banner, screaming pro-choice mantras and loathing the man in the White House. If the Women’s March and the March for Life are any indicators, women are ditching conformity, opting instead for ideological diversity and the beauty and love the pro-life message affords. It’s the “winning message,” Dannenfelser said.


“I think women’s experience has really shown that the promises of the old-guard feminist movement were a lie,” Dannenfelser added. “They were wrong, because they were not the great liberator. Abortion has not proved to be the great liberator. The pro-life message is a far more liberating message.”

It’s amazing how much more powerful a movement can be when it’s grounded not on self, but on others. Not on hatred of an election result or a president, but on love for womankind and compassion for the life they carry inside them.

The Women’s March isn’t about women. It never has been. The March for Life emphatically is.



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Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist


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Vic Eldred
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1  seeder  Vic Eldred    6 years ago

"It’s amazing how much more powerful a movement can be when it’s grounded not on self, but on others. Not on hatred of an election result or a president, but on love for womankind and compassion for the life they carry inside them."

Thank you Kylee


 
 
 
lib50
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1.1  lib50  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    6 years ago

Someone who 'loves womankind' (including other women) show it by trusting women to know what is best for them.  Not having their personal rights usurped by religious leaders, politicians, employers and other people who have no business in women's business.  Not forcing ones own moral beliefs on others (especially when you praise and support a lying pussygrabbing greedy narcissist).   

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  lib50 @1.1    6 years ago
Someone who 'loves womankind' (including other women)

That would be me!/s


 show it by trusting women to know what is best for them.

You mean like letting women who believe in life be a part of the democratic party or be a part of the "Woman's March?"



I got it!



 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1.2  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.1    6 years ago
I got it!

no, you don't.

it's about individual freedom of choice guaranteed by the Constitution and being free from any religious bullshit interfering with that very private and personal choice.

 
 
 
lib50
Professor Silent
1.1.3  lib50  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.1    6 years ago

I don't care what they do or where the march or what personal decisions they make about their body.  Male of female.  I just expect the same respect to rights.  So as long as they do that no problem.  But they don't, do they?  They want to FORCE THEIR BELIEFS ON ALL WOMEN.  That would be unacceptable.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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1.1.4  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.1    6 years ago
You mean like letting women who believe in life be a part of the democratic party or be a part of the "Woman's March?"

Democrats don't have an issue in letting them into the party. They do. Because the democratic party believes in choice. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.5  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @1.1.4    6 years ago
Because the democratic party believes in choice. 

Let's be fair to those women. What do you think "choice"- in specific regards to abortion means to these women?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.6  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  devangelical @1.1.2    6 years ago
it's about individual freedom of choice guaranteed by the Constitution

It's about a right to an abortion - concocted by a bunch of liberal judges!

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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1.1.7  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.5    6 years ago

Vic,

These women's choice is for all women to not have a choice. In other words, these women want all women to be forced into carrying to term, whether they want to or not. They are just anti abortion under all cases. 

So we can go back to the good old days of back ally abortions and knitting needles. Does that sound like a plan?

Look, personally, if these women don't want to have abortions I am fine with that. What I am not fine with is them forcing that on other people. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.8  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @1.1.7    6 years ago
So we can go back to the good old days of back ally abortions and knitting needles. Does that sound like a plan?

I thought that was the benefit of the pill?  No more unwanted pregnancies!   How did that work out other than to encourage women to have sex with everyone & everything?  It's very simple - prevent an unwanted pregnancy!


What I am not fine with is them forcing that on other people. 

You see there is one little problem. They consider abortion to be murder!

 
 
 
katrix
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1.1.9  katrix  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.8    6 years ago
You see there is one little problem. They consider abortion to be murder!

But you can't murder something that isn't a person yet. Zygotes and embryos are not people.

How did that work out other than to encourage women to have sex with everyone & everything?

That makes it sound like you wish we were back in the days where women paid a huge price if they wanted to enjoy sex just as much as men do. Not everyone can take the pill. Not everyone is responsible enough - which is why Norplant is often a better option, no need to remember to take a pill every day. And this abstinence only bullshit that the religious people are pushing, as well as all the attacks against PP, are making it even harder to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. "Just say no" doesn't work. Sex is one of the major human drives and abstinence lectures don't cut it.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.10  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  katrix @1.1.9    6 years ago
But you can't murder something that isn't a person yet.

Nobody knows when life begins.

 Zygotes and embryos are not people.

Show me the scientific evidence - when does life begin?


That makes it sound like you wish we were back in the days where women paid a huge price if they wanted to enjoy sex just as much as men do. 

You mean when women actually thought about who they had sex with?  I'm old enough to remember both worlds. I grew up when there was dating and relationships that a woman demanded. Then came the pill. The society changed a lot. Not long ago I was talking with a woman about arranging what once might be considered a first date. She asked me "do you want me shaved or unshaved."  I think we've gone a little too far don't you?

 And this abstinence only bullshit that the religious people are pushing, as well as all the attacks against PP, are making it even harder to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. "Just say no" doesn't work. Sex is one of the major human drives and abstinence lectures don't cut it.

That has never been my argument for many reasons. Abstinence in the era we live in?  We have left that for good.

 
 
 
MrFrost
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1.1.11  MrFrost  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.6    6 years ago

It's about a right to an abortion - concocted by a bunch of liberal judges!

Factually incorrect. It was a conservative leaning SCOTUS that ruled on Roe V. Wade. 

 
 
 
MrFrost
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1.1.12  MrFrost  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.10    6 years ago
Nobody knows when life begins.

From the Christian Bible.

Genesis 2:7, He “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and it was then that the man became a living being.”

Sucks when your own god says you're wrong. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.13  Sean Treacy  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.10    6 years ago

when life  begins:

”A human embryo is a living human organism once conceived. It’s not a “potential life,” as a theologian tells Strauss: It’s not an inanimate object that is somehow going to start living. It’s not a functional part of a different organism, like a skin cell, that somehow becomes an organism in its own right. It’s not a potential human, either: It’s not going to switch species. “

as Ramesh ponneru points out, the science is easy. It’s peoples inability to deal with science that makes it hard.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.14  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.11    6 years ago
It was a conservative leaning SCOTUS that ruled on Roe V. Wade. 

Factually correct; IT WAS A BOGUS RULING BASED ON A NON EXISTENT RIGHT OF PRIVACY

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.15  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.12    6 years ago

The Bible doesn't determine when life begins...Science is supposed to do that..

Right?

 
 
 
lady in black
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1.1.16  lady in black  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.14    6 years ago

No, it was NOT bogus.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.17  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  lady in black @1.1.16    6 years ago

Is that the ruling? Ok, I guess that's that!

 
 
 
katrix
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1.1.18  katrix  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.10    6 years ago
Nobody knows when life begins.

True.  I would say when it's viable outside the womb. But if you're going to claim a zygote is a person, then sperm cells and ova are also people.  Zygotes and blastocysts and embryos are clumps of cells which can't survive outside the womb.

You mean when women actually thought about who they had sex with?

I don't get this at all. Men have never had to think about who they had sex with, but women shouldn't enjoy the same freedom? And trust me, there were plenty of women who enjoyed - and had - sex before the pill was invented. They just often paid a high price for it while the men got off scot free.

I think we've gone a little too far don't you?

Nope. Sex is a lot of fun and is a basic human urge. It can be great in a committed relationship, and can be great as a fling. Now it does sound like that woman you were planning to date was clearly not on the same page as you when it comes to sex - there's nothing wrong with people who have sex on the first date, and there's nothing wrong with people who want to wait until they're in a relationship (I can't understand anyone waiting until marriage, because marrying and then finding out you're not sexually compatible would be an absolute nightmare for me - but hey, that's fine for people who want to do that, too).

 
 
 
lady in black
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1.1.19  lady in black  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.17    6 years ago

Just because you do not agree with the ruling doesn't make it bogus.

Don't like abortion, don't get one.

Don't tell women what they should or shouldn't do with an unplanned pregnancy...it's none of your business

 
 
 
MrFrost
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1.1.20  MrFrost  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.13    6 years ago

The right claims that abortion is immoral, based on the bible. 

 
 
 
MrFrost
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1.1.21  MrFrost  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.14    6 years ago

Factually correct; IT WAS A BOGUS RULING BASED ON A NON EXISTENT RIGHT OF PRIVACY

So when the government knocks on your door and says they are mounting cameras all over your house, you'll be fine with it. Good to know. 

 
 
 
lady in black
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1.1.22  lady in black  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.20    6 years ago

But that very same bible gives instructions on how to bring on an abortion for an unfaithful wife.

 
 
 
MrFrost
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1.1.23  MrFrost  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.15    6 years ago
The Bible doesn't determine when life begins...Science is supposed to do that..

Not according to the right wing Christians. 

 
 
 
MrFrost
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1.1.24  MrFrost  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.13    6 years ago
”A human embryo is a living human organism once conceived. It’s not a “potential life,” as a theologian tells Strauss: It’s not an inanimate object that is somehow going to start living. It’s not a functional part of a different organism, like a skin cell, that somehow becomes an organism in its own right. It’s not a potential human, either: It’s not going to switch species. “

By that argument, a tumor is also alive. Do you oppose removing them? A fetus that cannot survive on it's own is more of a parasite than a "baby human". 

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Guide
1.1.25  MrFrost  replied to  lady in black @1.1.22    6 years ago

But that very same bible gives instructions on how to bring on an abortion for an unfaithful wife.

Weird how they forget that part when this argument comes up. 

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Guide
1.1.26  MrFrost  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.17    6 years ago

Is that the ruling? Ok, I guess that's that!

Tell me Vic, what exactly do you think gives you the right to tell ANYONE else what they can and cannot do with their own bodies. Seriously, what gives you that right? 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.27  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  katrix @1.1.18    6 years ago
True.

I'm glad you see it.

I would say when it's viable outside the womb. But if you're going to claim a zygote is a person, then sperm cells and ova are also people.  Zygotes and blastocysts and embryos are clumps of cells which can't survive outside the womb.

A definitive scientific answer would be a big help in ending this rift. I think the very early stages can be set aside.


I don't get this at all. Men have never had to think about who they had sex with

True. Men didn't have to worry about getting pregnant.

but women shouldn't enjoy the same freedom? 

They should. Should they act like sailors on leave?  There has to be some discretion on the part of women. Women are after all the more civilized, more mature of the sexes.

And trust me, there were plenty of women who enjoyed - and had - sex before the pill was invented. 

I do believe I met them.

They just often paid a high price for it while the men got off scot free.

True. I'm glad that part of it is over.


Nope. Sex is a lot of fun and is a basic human urge. It can be great in a committed relationship, and can be great as a fling. Now it does sound like that woman you were planning to date was clearly not on the same page as you when it comes to sex 

I don't know what page I was on, but she has me on her side now! There never was another like her.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.28  Sean Treacy  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.26    6 years ago

what exactly do you think gives you the right to tell ANYONE else what they can and cannot do with their own bodies. Seriously, what gives you that right? 

you do know there is this thing called the law that restricts us from using our bodies for all sorts of things, right? For starters,  try and drive a car without wearing a seatbelt. 

Take away all laws, and you might have a point.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.29  Sean Treacy  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.20    6 years ago

So what? Do you believe your stereotype of the right is a controlling authority on the issue?  

 
 
 
katrix
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1.1.30  katrix  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.27    6 years ago
There has to be some discretion on the part of women. Women are after all the more civilized, more mature of the sexes.

Nope. That's taking us back to the bad old days. If a woman wants to be as indiscriminate as a man, she can be. It almost sounds as though part of your stance on abortion is because you don't think women should enjoy sex as much as men do and want us held to a higher standard - and that isn't fair to us.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.31  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  lady in black @1.1.19    6 years ago
Just because you do not agree with the ruling doesn't make it bogus.

Not merely me..Many legal scholars have disagreed with it, including Justice Ginsburg, who accurately predicted that the ruling would lead to a longstanding movement against it. Evidently, you never heard all of that?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.32  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.21    6 years ago
So when the government knocks on your door and says they are mounting cameras all over your house, you'll be fine with it.

Is that a defense of the so called "right of privacy?"

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.33  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.23    6 years ago
Not according to the right wing Christians. 

Who here is representing them?  Why introduce them to the discussion?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.34  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  katrix @1.1.30    6 years ago
It almost sounds as though part of your stance on abortion is because you don't think women should enjoy sex as much as men do and want us held to a higher standard - and that isn't fair to us.

I absolutely want a woman to enjoy it - to the fullest!  I also believe that sex has to mean something. That's all I'm saying.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.35  Sean Treacy  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.24    6 years ago
By that argument, a tumor is also

Uh no, it's not. Read it again. 

A fetus that cannot survive on it's own is more of a parasite than a "baby huma

Read it again. Slowly. It has nothing to do whether it can survive on it's own.  

The question is when human life begins. Not when it can survive on it's own, which would probably be at least 7 or 8, at the earliest. 

Do you think it's okay to kill humans until they can survive without help?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.36  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.26    6 years ago

As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."

 
 
 
katrix
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1.1.37  katrix  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.34    6 years ago
I also believe that sex has to mean something.

I get that, and it's fine if that works for you. But not everyone feels that way, and what is right for you isn't right for everyone else. To me, sex is awesome if it means something - and it's also awesome when it doesn't. I don't consider it to be some huge thing. I mean, if I'm in a relationship, I stay faithful and expect the same - but if I'm not, sex isn't that big of a deal.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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1.1.38  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.5    6 years ago
Let's be fair to those women

To be fair, if men were also capable of getting pregnant there is no question that an overwhelming majority would support the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Three quarters of Americans support a woman's right to choose and believe the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v Wade.

 
 
 
MrFrost
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1.1.39  MrFrost  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.28    6 years ago
you do know there is this thing called the law that restricts us from using our bodies for all sorts of things, right? For starters,  try and drive a car without wearing a seatbelt. 

You are comparing wearing a seatbelt to an abortion? Really? They are not even close to the same thing. But since you went down that road? Abortions are LEGAL. 

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Guide
1.1.40  MrFrost  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.35    6 years ago

Do you think it's okay to kill humans until they can survive without help?

I don't know of anyone that is. If you do, call the police, it's your civic duty. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.41  Sean Treacy  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.39    6 years ago
They are not even close to the same thing

No shit. I was pointing out how silly your point was.

Did you not understand that?

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Guide
1.1.42  MrFrost  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.35    6 years ago
Read it again. Slowly.

I am the one that typed it in, pretty sure I know what it says and means. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
1.1.43  Sean Treacy  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.42    6 years ago

I am the one that typed it in, pretty sure I know what it says and means. 

You keep misusing the word hearsay, so that would be a leap of faith on my part to believe that.  

Also, try and make a single response to each post, ideally one that is  coherent and responsive to the post you are replying to.  Posting a new post every time you put a sentence together clutters up the site and makes it more difficult to follow the discussion. Which may be your motive, I don't know. 

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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1.1.44  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.15    6 years ago
The Bible doesn't determine when life begins...Science is supposed to do that..

1. Sperm - can live up to 5 days after leaving a mans body. Between 40 and 150 million living sperm are contained in a single ejaculation.

2. Egg - can live about 4 to 12 hours after being released from the ovaries. Women are born with about 2 million eggs and about 11,000 die each month prior to puberty.

3. Fertilized egg - cells begin to divide, travels from the fallopian tubes to the uterus 3 to 4 days after fertilization

4. Zygote - at about 7 days if the fertilized egg attached to the endometrium it continues its cell division. At 3 weeks the zygote is about 0.1 mm and still too small to see with the naked eye.

5. Embryo - At about week 5 most medical professionals consider it an embryo and a heart beat can first be heard. Week 6-8 are the first signs of brain activity. At 8 weeks it's about a 1/2 inch long.

6. Fetus - At week 11 most organs are being formed and spinal cord and the fetus is about 2 inches long.

7. Fetus - At week 14 the fetuses gender can often be determined and the first signs of movement begin. Women can usually feel the movement between week 16 and 20.

8. Fetus - By week 22 most medical professionals believe it can live outside the womb without the mother though assisted with medical devices.

9. Fetus - By week 27 the fetus is assumes the size and characteristics of a newborn and can open its eyes and begins 'breathing' amniotic fluid.

10. Birth - By 36 weeks the fetus is ready to be born and take its first breaths of air

So there are many stages of "life" which begin with the sperm and the eggs. The law says stages 1 through 8 when the zygote or fetus is still fully dependent on its host that its up to the mother to decide to go through with a pregnancy and carry to full term or to terminate the pregnancy.

So by that, when does life begin? For some it's as Monty Python said in the song "Every Sperm is Sacred" about becoming Catholic "from the moment dad came". For others, they don't consider life beginning until the baby takes its first breath. The law put's it at viability.

92% of all abortions occur at or before 12 weeks (or roughly stage 6 in the above). The vast majority of the remaining 8% occur between 12 and 22 weeks. Only a very small percentage under 1% are after viability due to rape, incest or the health of the mother.

So the debate here is really "At what stage should we take away the rights of a mother and forcibly invade her privacy so that we may protect the newly acquired rights of the fetus?".

When religious persons express their desire to ban all abortions from the moment of fertilization, most people see that as not only unreasonable but dangerous. It's not like pregnancy will stop making some women feel so desperate or scared enough to attempt to terminate it themselves or go to some back ally abortionist where their own health is also put at risk. So why not support safe and legal access to family planning?

I think any reasonable person, who wasn't stuck on some religious fantasy they've been indoctrinated with about a magical ever living "soul" being created at conception, would agree that bans at fertilization are a ridiculous demand, and just allowing any elective or "on demand" termination after viability is unreasonable. Thankfully, we already have the law set in between those two extremes.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.45  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.1.44    6 years ago

In other words you don't know. BTW, once a Monty Python quote enters the conversation we can shake hands & call it a day.

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1.46  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.8    6 years ago
They consider abortion to be murder!

that's their fucking problem. don't like it? tough shit. go start jesusland on the other side of the planet and outlaw abortion there. thumpers haven't got the stomach for what it will take to remove a protected freedom from the largest voting block in the US.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.47  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  devangelical @1.1.46    6 years ago
that's their fucking problem.

Oh, I beg to differ. You may recall election night 2016:

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Buzz of the Orient
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1.1.48  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.8    6 years ago

And in the case of rape, or incest (which I understand just might be a sin in accordance with the bible), according to you the victimized woman cannot have a choice?  Vic, I invite you to take a tour, maybe spend a day helping out in the top floor ward of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, where the "monsters" are that should have been aborted are cared for, for their short and unfortunate lives.  

 
 
 
Drakkonis
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1.1.49  Drakkonis  replied to  MrFrost @1.1.12    6 years ago

You must be kidding.

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
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1.1.50  sandy-2021492  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.27    6 years ago
Women are after all the more civilized, more mature of the sexes.

That's just justification for a double standard.

Besides, if we are more mature and civilized, then surely we deserve greater say on moral issues, including but not limited to abortion?

Careful you don't paint yourself into a corner.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.51  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  sandy-2021492 @1.1.50    6 years ago
Besides, if we are more mature and civilized, then surely we deserve greater say on moral issues, including but not limited to abortion?

Correct. And women have proven that they can think for themselves because they do not speak with one voice.

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
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1.1.52  sandy-2021492  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.51    6 years ago

Of course they don't.

The pro-choice movement gives them each their own individual voice.  The forced-birth movement would silence the voices of which it disapproves.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.53  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @1.1.48    6 years ago
And in the case of rape, or incest

Special cases like that are a different matter. I'm only speaking of adult women with access to birth control, yet are terminating a life ( based upon one's point of view) as a right!


Vic, I invite you to take a tour, maybe spend a day helping out in the top floor ward of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, where the "monsters" are that should have been aborted are cared for, for their short and unfortunate lives.  

I understand the point and I'm glad I don't have to see it, as I'm sure your'e glad you don't have to watch the para-military group out in Idaho say they need an arsenal of assault weapons because it's their "right!"

 
 
 
Gordy327
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1.1.54  Gordy327  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.6    6 years ago
It's about a right to an abortion

Yeah, and women have that right, despite attempts to limit or restrict it.

- concocted by a bunch of liberal judges!

Do you seriously think the SCOTUS Justices during Roe were liberal? Or are they "liberal" because you don't agree with them?

I thought that was the benefit of the pill?  No more unwanted pregnancies!

What difference does that make? THe pill is not 100% effective and accidents can still happen. But a woman's choice and rights do not end just because she becomes pregnant.

  How did that work out other than to encourage women to have sex with everyone & everything?

So women weren't having sex before the pill? Is that what you're saying? 

It's very simple - prevent an unwanted pregnancy!

And sometimes, pregnancy happens anyway. Your point?

You see there is one little problem. They consider abortion to be murder!

And they would be wrong!

Nobody knows when life begins

It's not about when "life" begins.

Show me the scientific evidence - when does life begin?

You must be confusing "life" with when it's an actual individual. A zygote is a single cell. Hardly an actual person.

 I think we've gone a little too far don't you?

Not at all. Life goes on, society progresses. Sorry if you're stuck in the past.

Abstinence in the era we live in?  We have left that for good.

Abstinence is unrealistic anyway.

 IT WAS A BOGUS RULING BASED ON A NON EXISTENT RIGHT OF PRIVACY

What makes you more of an expert on Constitutional matters than the SCOTUS?

Men didn't have to worry about getting pregnant.

But women do. So the choice to remain pregnant or not belongs to them.

Is that a defense of the so called "right of privacy?"

Are you suggesting you don't have a right to privacy? I would think rights are a good thing to have.

Not merely me..Many legal scholars have disagreed with it, including Justice Ginsburg, who accurately predicted that the ruling would lead to a longstanding movement against it. Evidently, you never heard all of that?

Actually, Justice Ginsberg agreed with the "heart" of the ruling and has supported abortion rights over the years. But it was the sweeping nature of the ruling she thought would lead to controversy over abortion.

 I also believe that sex has to mean something. That's all I'm saying.

That's merely your belief. Whether it means something to the individual is up to them.

And women have proven that they can think for themselves because they do not speak with one voice.

But they don't speak for anyone else either!

Special cases like that are a different matter. I'm only speaking of adult women with access to birth control, yet are terminating a life ( based upon one's point of view) as a right!

It's a right and established legal precedent! The circumstances surrounding a pregnancy is irrelevant. Deal with it!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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1.1.55  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.53    6 years ago

Sorry Vic, I thought you meant ALL abortions.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.56  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @1.1.55    6 years ago

No problem and I'm sure Kylee agrees

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.3  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    6 years ago

anti-choice thumpers are free to cherry pick their bibles to find religious justification to impose their will on the unwilling, but the Constitution is the law of the land, and that land is secular by design, and for increasingly obvious reasons. those that can't mind their own business invite public scrutiny into theirs.

another gop rerun of their go to wedge issue in every general election for the last 50 years, for the sole purpose of getting thumper scum into the voting booth. hilarious that so many rwnj xtians whine about their opponents trying to "undo the results of an election that took place 3 years ago", but fail to see the hypocrisy demonstrated by their attempts to reverse a 47 year old SCOTUS decision. women are equal, get over it.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  devangelical @1.3    6 years ago
but the Constitution is the law of the land

It should be, but unfortunately liberal judges have their own constitution. There are two in reality, which explains all the 5-4 decisions we see.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Guide
1.3.2  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.3.1    6 years ago

Vic,

The reality is that all the justices are bias. The liberals and the conservatives read the constitution to fit their agendas. I think it's funny when partisans only see it one way.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.3  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @1.3.2    6 years ago

If you see it that way, then you would at least agree with me that we are operating under two separate constitutions.

I happen to think one group follows the original intent on the founders, while the other openly claims that the Constitution gets interpreted via the times we live in.

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Guide
1.3.5  MrFrost  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @1.3.2    6 years ago
I think it's funny when partisans only see it one way.

Yup, weird how that works. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
1.3.6  Sean Treacy  replied to  MrFrost @1.3.5    6 years ago

Yup, weird how that works. 

I’m glad you admit liberal justices are biased.

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Guide
1.3.7  MrFrost  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.3.6    6 years ago

no more so than conservative judges. 

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Guide
1.3.8  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.3.3    6 years ago

No we are not. We are operating under one Constitution as our founders designed it to be. Our founding fathers saw the Constitution as a living document, to last forever. Proof of this is that they provided for changes to it. 

The Framers knew that the passage of time would surely disclose imperfections or inadequacies in the Constitution, but these were to be repaired or remedied by formal amendment, not by legislative action or judicial construction (or reconstruction). Hamilton (in The Federalist No. 78) was emphatic about this:

"Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption, or even knowledge of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives in a departure from it prior to such an act."
 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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1.3.9  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  dennis smith @1.3.4    6 years ago

I totally agree with you Dennis!

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Guide
1.3.10  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.3.6    6 years ago

No more biased the conservative justices, Sean. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.13  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @1.3.8    6 years ago
Our founding fathers saw the Constitution as a living document

The first time the words "living document" were uttered was by Woodrow Wilson. 

Proof of this is that they provided for changes to it. 

Called "Amendments" as opposed to Judicial fiat!


Based on what you have just said, I can assume that you subscribe to the decisions of the judicial activists who are constantly overturned by the current Supreme Court. It was under Justice William Brennan that the Court began to adopt this Living document theory. As Brennan used to say "If you have five votes here, you can do anything." Justice Scalia would later counter "The only good Constitution is a dead Constitution."  

We are a nation of laws and they can only be changed by the will of the people

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.14  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  devangelical @1.3    6 years ago

Thanks for first creating the Pro-Choice movement and then for driving them over to the GOP. I'm sure we can count on their votes!

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.16  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Tessylo @1.3.15    6 years ago
over 75% of people are pro choice

I'm sure you will show us where you got that figure of 75% of the American people

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
1.3.17  Sean Treacy  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.3.16    6 years ago

m sure you will show us where you got that figure of 75% of the American people

One can only imagine where that number comes from.

Per Gallup, it's split, with 51% of women defining themselves as pro life, and 46% of men.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.19  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.3.17    6 years ago

That's what I had heard.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.20  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Tessylo @1.3.18    6 years ago

Thanks for the link/s

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
1.3.21  Sean Treacy  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.3.13    6 years ago
Called "Amendments" as opposed to Judicial fiat!

That's the part they seem to miss. 

The Supreme Court didn't just roll out of bed and say slavery was unconstitutional, an Amendment was passed to make it so. Same thing with women's right to vote. 

Now they just "find" rights that coincidentally align with their morals.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Guide
1.3.22  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  XDm9mm @1.3.12    6 years ago
Yes they did provide for a means to change it.  Amendments.

That is to write a law. All law is interpreted. 

NOT//NOT activist judges deciding what THEY think something means or creating entirely new "rights".

Their job is to interpret how a given situation either meets the law or doesn't. This goes on every day, in every courtroom. 

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Guide
1.3.23  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.3.13    6 years ago
The first time the words "living document" were uttered was by Woodrow Wilson. 

He used that term, but I clearly showed you Hamilton's own words which said basically the same thing.

Based on what you have just said, I can assume that you subscribe to the decisions of the judicial activists who are constantly overturned by the current Supreme Court.

No that is not what I am saying. I believe in our Constitution, hence why I support the second along with the first. But the purpose of our justices is to interpret how the Constitution applies today. The very last thing I believe is in a dead Constitution. It is a gift to this country.

 
 
 
lib50
Professor Silent
1.3.24  lib50  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.3.13    6 years ago
Based on what you have just said, I can assume that you subscribe to the decisions of the judicial activists who are constantly overturned by the current Supreme Court.

Until its DONE by the Supreme Court.  As is Citizen's United.  Which is why we are owned and manipulated by the elite and foreign money today. 

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Guide
4  Perrie Halpern R.A.    6 years ago

I have to say that I feel that this is a total distortion of what Pro-Choice means. I am pro-choice. I am a wife, mother, and a working woman. Choice is about choosing whether or not to keep an unwanted pregnancy. That is all it is about. That means you can keep or not keep a pregnancy. I am so tired of this being about other things, that it is not about. 

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
7  charger 383    6 years ago

Pro Life movement want to force a woman to be a Sacuntary for an unwanted alien 

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Guide
8  MrFrost    6 years ago

If you don't like abortions, don't get one. Problem solved. 

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Guide
9  MrFrost    6 years ago

It always amazes me that the party that screams about wanting more personal freedoms and government out of their lives, advocates for the exact opposite when it comes to women. 

It has nothing to do with abortion, to most of right wing, it's more about control over women than anything else. 

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Guide
9.1  sandy-2021492  replied to  MrFrost @9    6 years ago

Government small enough to fit in a uterus.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Guide
9.1.1  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  sandy-2021492 @9.1    6 years ago
Government small enough to fit in a uterus.

Which is an interesting point, because most conservatives would say that they are for less government until it's about something they care about then we need more.

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
Professor Expert
10  Just Jim NC TttH    6 years ago

384

So don't try........................

 
 
 
lib50
Professor Silent
10.1  lib50  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @10    6 years ago

Thanks, rather tedious watching a bunch of mostly old men trying to justify shaming and blaming and trying to control women's physical health all the time.  Here's a hint:  if you want to understand women, listen to them.

 
 
 
lady in black
Professor Silent
10.1.2  lady in black  replied to  XXJefferson51 @10.1.1    6 years ago

There were more pro choice women that outnumber them that did NOT attend.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
11  JohnRussell    6 years ago

U.S. abortion policy is a compromise which centers on the onset of fetus viability.  Before viability abortion is allowed, after, it is restricted depending on circumstances (late term abortion) . 

This is all we can do, and it should stay in place as is. 

Women have been having abortions forever whether it is legal or not, and you will not change that by adding new illegality. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
12  seeder  Vic Eldred    6 years ago

Ok, I think we have covered this one as thoroughly as we usually do whenever the subject comes up. Thank you all.

 
 

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