Reply #50: crap

[iverglas]

The gender asymmetry is meant only to point out that its not possible to imagine this issue in terms of attaining some sort of "equal rights."

Abject, primitive crap.

The rights in question are the rights of LIFE and LIBERTY.

You don't need access to abortion in order to exercise those rights.

WOMEN DO. There's nothing "asymmetrical" about it at all.

Denying women access to abortion VIOLATES WOMEN'S RIGHTS TO LIFE AND LIBERTY. (Say it violates the right to privacy if you like; I happen to think that's nonsense.)

Dick Cheney doesn't need the right not to be discriminated against in employment, because he doesn't need a job.

Does this mean that there should be no legal prohibition against discrimination in employment? Because rich old white men don't need it?

How the fuck can anyone possibly think that NOT DENYING women the authority to make decisions about their own bodies is "asymmetrical"??

Is someone trying to deny YOU the authority to make decisions about your body?

It is not possible to imagine denying women the authority to make decisions about their own body as ANYTHING BUT a denial of equal rights.