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@Aella_Girl
One of the strongest pieces of evidence that our culture sucks at thinking or empathy is the abortion debate. Pro-choicers constantly characterize pro-lifers as "not actually caring about babies, but just want to control the bodies of women" which is one of the stupidest things
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@Aella_Girl
Like, I definitely think abortion is great, but pro-choice people often view themselves as being very reasonable and progressive, but if they were then they wouldn't insist that the opponent's motivation isn't valid just because it makes them sympathetic.
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@Aella_Girl
Like, pro-life people legitimately think they are saving the lives of infants. And yes, if someone thinks that, then of course it makes sense they're gonna try to make abortion illegal. You would too if you fuckin thought you were preventing the mass slaughter of innocents.
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@Aella_Girl
Are the pro-lifers consistent about it? No. Is their "saving the lives of innocents thing" at the expense of women's agency over their lives? Yes. Doesn't mean they aren't still trying to stop what is in their eyes a legalized massacre, my dudes.
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@Aella_Girl
The claim that this is really about controlling women's bodies is horseshit. It's a side effect, not the main goal. It's just super easy to take unflattering side effects and point at it and scream loudly THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED ALL ALONG, YOU VILLAINS
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@Aella_Girl
Would be like if you campaigned for women's equal working rights in a sexist country, and then all the sexists came out of the woodwork to insist that your true goal all along was to separate women from their children, you anti-family monster.
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@Aella_Girl
My mom once got pregnant with a fetus with half a brain and some important organs missing. Doctors told her it was definitely going to die, she should abort. Nope - she carried the baby to term, gave birth, and he died in her arms. Here's me and my brother in this photo
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@Aella_Girl
My mom was once arrested for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic (years later, I protested planned parenthood alongside her). If you walked up to my mom and told her she only cared about controlling women's bodies, that would have been such an insult.
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@Aella_Girl
To be clear: I think (even really late) abortions should be legal. I think it's better for society in almost every way. But the pro-choice rhetoric sucks absolute balls, come fucking on guys you are better than this. You don't have to demonize the enemy to win.
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@Aella_Girl
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@MegawattPusher
Yes, absolutely. You know you're not murdering babies. They think that you don't know you're murdering babies and they're trying to help you by letting you know so that you stop. They suspect you wouldn't murder babies if you knew that's what you were doing.
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@MegawattPusher
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@Aella_Girl
But what I'm saying is, you're saying that the pro-choice crowd should tone down its rhetoric when talking to the pro-life crowd, but it doesn't seem like you're willing to flip it around. Why is it only the pro-choice crowd who gets chastised for incivility?
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@Aella_Girl
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@MegawattPusher
I used to be a staunch pro-lifer and I know the rhetoric they have against the pro-choicers (which I am now). Their rhetoric against you is way less inaccurate than your rhetoric against them. I am honestly disgusted by this side of things.
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