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Silent3

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4. If a human right were involved, clearly it would be the business of the state to intervene...

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 3, 2021, 11:19 AM

Sep 2021

...to protect the right's of one individual from the actions of another.

If (and only if) you grant the unborn equal rights, then it can't be up to the individual to override those rights based on personal opinion. That would be like granting a racist the right to kill black people because the racist chooses not to value black lives as equal. Clearly the state has to step in with an overriding decision and ignore personal opinion.

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While I would still strongly disagree with "pro-life" people, it would be with a bit more sympathy.. [View all] Silent3 Sep 2021 OP

Maybe a lot of them will get the virus. Texaswitchy Sep 2021 #1

RW radio hosts are now an endangered species. dewsgirl Sep 2021 #8

RW radio hosts are now an endangered species. dewsgirl Sep 2021 #10

"Pro-choice" is the important phrase. Ocelot II Sep 2021 #2

If a human right were involved, clearly it would be the business of the state to intervene... Silent3 Sep 2021 #4

That's exactly why they want to grant legal "personhood" to embryos. Ocelot II Sep 2021 #5

And if they actually supported preventing abortion Freddie Sep 2021 #3

Well said! DickKessler Sep 2021 #6

They're pro-birth, yet anti-child. nt Carlitos Brigante Sep 2021 #7

In reality, abortion has been around for thousands of years. world wide wally Sep 2021 #9

My mother did in the late 1950's. Texaswitchy Sep 2021 #11

There are two tried and true methods for reducing the number of abortions. Midnight Writer Sep 2021 #12