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Lief 🗽
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« on: August 02, 2013, 11:55:20 AM »
« edited: August 02, 2013, 12:00:02 PM by Lіef »

lol, no one is talking about infanticide, calm down dude.

This abortion thing is exhausting. We know conservatives think women should go back to being treated as the baby-making property of their husbands. We know they're hiding this in arguments about the well-being of babies or whatever, even though conservatives repeatedly vote to cut funding to actually give these babies food and healthcare once they're born. This constant fake outrage about the poor babies and evil leftist baby murderers is really tiring.

If a pregnant woman thinks a child is going to inconvenience her life, she should be able to have an abortion. Conservatives sure aren't going to take care of the child for her. Look at Texas. Abortion is basically outlawed now, and the government refuses to expand medicaid so those unwanted children and their mothers aren't going to have healthcare. But conservatives don't give a sh[inks] about that, because they're both out of the womb by that point, and no longer conservatives' problem.
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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2013, 03:53:17 PM »

This post demonstrates a lot of what is wrong with political discourse in the US, both on the left and the right. Lief knows that people who disagree with him are sexist! How? Clearly because he is telepathic. Or maybe he says so because he knows it's easier to build up strawmen rather than to debate an issue on its own terms.

Obviously I can't read their mind. But one can make conclusions based on their actions. And when the only scenario in which they care about the well-being of babies is one in which they can also restrict the rights of women, while not caring at all about the well-being of babies in scenarios where they cannot restrict the rights of women, it's pretty clear what's happening. Returning to the Texas example, the same government on the one hand dramatically curtailed the rights of women in order to "protect unborn babies", while at the same time refusing essentially free money from the federal government that would have protected the health of born babies and their mothers.
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