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Aella
@Aella_Girl
As a socially progressive slut/sex worker/moral nihilist, I am very pro abortion. I grew up among anti-abortion acitivsts - for example, my mom once spent time in jail for blocking abortion clinic doors. I think those people are wrong, but I also understand their views. 1/
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@Aella_Girl
Imagine the Opposing Side is tryin to pass a law to make it legal to kill the elderly, or very sick people. You'd probably feel horrified, and any arguments they made to justify it would seem absurd and selfish. This is really, actually how many of them feel about fetuses. 2/
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@Aella_Girl
And that... really sucks, cause what do you do about it? It's not an easy argument, and it's probably why the abortion issue has become a decisive issue in a lot of areas; conservative people are slowly changing in many ways, but it seems like they're stable re: abortion.
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@Aella_Girl
This is why I tweeted that states should have more control; I sort of want all the anti-abortion people to go shush off over in a state or two somewhere and not spend their activism at those who don't believe fetuses are people.
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@Aella_Girl
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@Matt_Dillahunty
I deeply empathize with this, from personal experience as you know - but 1) this is already the case in other countries and people here seem largely fine with it; I don't see widespread arguing to free the children of Malaysia or whatever
Matt Dillahunty
@Matt_Dillahunty
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@Aella_Girl
We don't have authority of Malaysia, they're not part of the United States. If they were, it'd be wrong just dismiss the rights of those citizens based on what a group wants. We are NOT majority-rule.
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