The GOP War on Women - The Megathread

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And, as a radical feminist, I dislike the implication that the Republicans are the only ill facing American women, and that feminism can just scurry away back to the kitchen once abortion and contraception and other such things are secured.

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Could not have said this better, though I'm not 100% positive my specific subset of feminism's desired solutions are entirely the same as Morgan's (in terms of public policy they're probably similar on contraception and might well be quite similar or quite different on abortion).

TJ, would or would not wanting or seeking an abortion, but being legally estopped from going through with it, itself constitute mortal sin?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

TJ, would or would not wanting or seeking an abortion, but being legally estopped from going through with it, itself constitute mortal sin?

You are correct (at least for seeking, wanting depends on the situation). However, the gravity of the sin, while still mortal, would be reduced.

Where exactly lies the rub in distinguishing in gravity between mortal sins? Is it just a question of the amount of penance required?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

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Bolded two specifications that make this entire line of argument not only wrong but completely meaningless, except maybe as a criticism of 'the world's great philosophical traditions' and 'the estimation of historians of philosophy'--or, of course, as in this case, an exercise in misogyny.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How dare that misogynist talk about my Ayn in some terms!

I can subjectively but full-throatedly state for the umpteenth time that Ayn Rand was not a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions. Julian of Norwich, Tadano Makuzu, and G.E.M. Anscombe are the first three women who pop into my head when that concept does.