Roe v. Wade is going down

[LogGrad98]

I think of the fetus as a human being. My objections spring from my thinking of forced pregnancy as slavery.

Thanks for the clarification. I was just going from many discussions about this

I don’t buy this argument at all. I think everyone understands that it is a human life. That is why the pro-choice crowd trails off with “I support a woman’s right to choose” with it being understood they aren’t talking about what toppings to have on a pizza or what to wear that day. The woman is choosing to kill a child.

It is no different from Shamaiya Hall deciding she didn’t want kids and so she killed 3 of them by stabbing them to death.

Mother charged with capital murder in deaths of 3 children in Italy, Texas, family says

A 25-year-old woman has been charged with capital murder for the deaths of three children in Italy, Texas, on Friday. Family members say she was the mother of the kids who were killed.

www.fox4news.com

It is no different, other than the gender, than Chris Watts dropping his 2 daughters into an oil tank because he wanted to start a new family with a hot new girl.

Father 'stuffed daughters' bodies in oil tanks so they wouldn't smell

The bodies of 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste were found inside the barrels alongside that of her pregnant mother on a Colorado oil field owned by Anadarko Petroleum.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Everybody knows it is a child we’re talking about, and children are a huge responsibility which some women don’t want to commit to so they go to a clinic to have the child killed while it is still legal to do so.

You can argue whatever you want. I was just pointing out the futility of the argument. I have no horse in this race. Rail at OB, not me.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Thanks for the clarification. I was just going from many discussions about this

You can argue whatever you want. I was just pointing out the futility of the argument. I have no horse in this race. Rail at OB, not me.

I’m not railing against anyone, merely stating the obvious. As for OB, even he doesn’t resort to the semantical misdirection that isn’t uncommon among those who believe women should be able to kill children. His take is more oddball in that he believes the responsibility of raising kids constitutes slavery. Shamaiya Hall, who stabbed her three children to death, was only trying to free herself from slavery and so the killing of her children is morally justified in his mind. Chris Watts dropping his daughters in the oil tank, and I’m unclear if his 3 and 4-year-old daughters were already dead or he forced them into the tank alive and let the oil kill them after he shut the hatch at the top of the tank, is justified because slavery is bad.

We are talking about the killing of kids, over 50 million children made dead deliberately. That doesn’t sit comfortably with me. My moral stance doesn’t rely on pretending there is no child being killed during an abortion because that is exactly what it is.

 

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His take is more oddball in that he believes the responsibility of raising kids constitutes slavery.

I don't know if you are this bad at reading, or just this dishonest. "Forced pregnancy" is different from "raising kids". No one in the US is forced to raise kids, you can choose to sever your relationship to them and have them raised by the state or adopted. There is a movement to force women to continue pregnancy. That is slavery.

We are talking about the killing of kids, over 50 million children made dead deliberately.

We are talking about the enslavement of women, also, by forcing them to continue pregnancy.

That doesn’t sit comfortably with me.

Nor for me, but I don't let my comfort level dictate whose rights I will support. No human life has the right of use to another human's body.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

No one in the US is forced to raise kids

No one in the US is legally forced to get pregnant either. As far as the ability to sever a relationship with a child, yes it is possible but it isn't instant. The timing of that severance isn't solely up to the mother. Doing something to endanger the life of a child isn't rendered unprosecutable by a mother declaring then and there that she has severed the relationship with the child. The situation with an unborn child is identical. A mother can choose to sever the relationship and put the child up for adoption, but the process isn't instant, or at least it isn't instant unless you condone the killing of a child. Make no mistake, you value the inconvenience stemming from consequences of the mother's choices above the life of a child. I'm on the other side of that. If a woman had consensual sex which led to pregnancy with a healthy baby, then she gets to live with the consequences of that decision until the baby is delivered. Living with the consequences of your own actions isn't slavery.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Honestly if they could find a low-invasive way to turn the reproductive ability on and off, with zero cost to the individual other than not being able to make babies until they choose to have it turned back on, I would be highly in favor of mandating that. Turn it off after they hit puberty so you don't have any more 15-year-old mothers, and make them make a decision when to turn it back on after they turn 18 or something. I could get behind that. Too bad there is no such thing. Vasectomies sound minor, but they are not, and they can cause real complications. I have a friend who had issues with infection and swelling after his that caused him to lose the ability to orgasm, and caused partial ED. But if that could be developed with minimal risk and minimally-invasive techniques of some kind, one way or the other, for the women or the men, then I could really get behind that.

There needs to be much greater focus on men using birth control. From using condoms to vasectomies. Putting all the responsibility on women where they can’t even get birth control without first seeing a doctor, using birth control that has countless side effects, etc is just dumb. The man who’s fertile 24/7 needs some skin in the game. Yet, you never hear that.

 

[Eminence]

May I take this thread to propose actual slavery for deadbeat dads in our lovely coming Republican utopia? Knock em up and make a run for it? Life sentence. Miss a child support payment (I suggest raising this to 90% of income)? Life sentence.

Have to give men equal skin in the game here somehow.

 

[gandalfe]

There needs to be much greater focus on men using birth control. From using condoms to vasectomies. Putting all the responsibility on women where they can’t even get birth control without first seeing a doctor, using birth control that has countless side effects, etc is just dumb. The man who’s fertile 24/7 needs some skin in the game. Yet, you never hear that.

I first read about this some 20 years ago.

Male Birth Control Injection: Options, Research

The male birth control injection isn’t yet available to the public, but it could be in the next few years, along with other methods that are already in clinical trials.

www.healthline.com

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Have to give men equal skin in the game here somehow.

Interesting idea Eminence! Equal skin in the game. The father and mother both have to make child support payments (90% of their income) to a holding account for the child with required approval from both mother and father for any expenditures. If a father misses a payment then slavery for him and if the mother misses a payment then slavery for her. Life sentence and equal skin in the game. The mother and father, in the case of separation, both get 50% custody. The mother and father both get absolutely equal say in decisions involving the child. In the case of abortion, both the mother and father get absolute equal say. There are no tie-breakers. If mother wants an abortion and father does not then they do not have adequate consensus to take any action.

I'm not sure I'd support your dystopian idea for how you believe parenting should rightfully function but I'll admit that 'Eminence's equal-skin-in-the-game model for parenting' is an intriguing thought experiment. Good luck getting women to buy into it but fishonjazz seems to like your proposal.

 

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As far as the ability to sever a relationship with a child, yes it is possible but it isn't instant.

One call to CPS threatening your children is all it takes. They'll be gone very quickly.

Make no mistake, you value the inconvenience stemming from consequences of the mother's choices above the life of a child. I'm on the other side of that.

The hypocrisy is that you are only on the other side of that for pregnant women.

Living with the consequences of your own actions isn't slavery.

Actually, the 13th Amendment acknowledges that prison work is equivalent to slavery/involuntary servitude. Forced continuation of pregnancy also qualifies. At least have the consistency to acknowledge you want to force women into involuntary servitude because they had sex.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

At least have the consistency to acknowledge you want to force women into involuntary servitude because they had sex.

The fundamental problem with your argument is that no matter how you look at it, the mother is responsible. Either the mother's body is enslaving her, or the baby is enslaving her but because the baby is a minor it makes the mother responsible so again the mother is the one enslaving the mother. The government's role is not enslavement but only one of preventing one human from deliberately killing another. Paint the consequences of not killing another however you want but those consequences are the mother's responsibility. Enslaving yourself to yourself isn't a thing.

 

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Men have zero role in women becoming pregnant…

 

[Eminence]

Men have zero role in women becoming pregnant…

Some men certainly don't.