All the people talking up what a great defender of women's rights she is know that she proposed halving the legally allowed period for elective abortions in the UK, right Literally a "foetus protection" billhttps://lordsbusiness.parliament.uk/ItemOfBusiness?itemOfBusinessId=37006§ionId=40 …
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Lowering it to 3 months, *not* prohibiting it, I notice.
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Yes, as they say, politics is the art of the possible
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IDD64 and
Why are you trying to defend every single shitty thing she does "Oh, she didn't propose a wholesale abortion ban because she couldn't defend that position in debate" "Oh, she didn't unilaterally commit UK troops to the invasion because she didn't have the authority"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IDD64 and
So the fuck what How does that make it not fucked up that she took the position on these things that she did
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Because people are entitled to have different views to you - radical, I know. Even though I didn't support the Iraq War (without a UN resolution), many people did because of Hussein's abuse of human rights. They're entitled to that view just as I am to mine.
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Replying to @IDD64 @arthur_affect and
As much as I am pro-choice, many people are unsettled by abortion or by late abortions. They are entitled to that view. I will resist anyone who tries to make abortions illegal, but I wouldn't try to silence their view.
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Halving the length of time in which someone can have an abortion is making abortion illegal It is not making *all* abortions illegal, but it's making *many* abortions illegal, for no good fucking reason
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And I'm not "silencing" her She's a goddamn baroness, what power do I have to "silence" her or anyone I am loudly stating that her opinion is dogshit, which is an exercise of my freedom of speech as much as her saying her dogshit opinion was hers
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But you've just said having a different opinion is "the last refuge of the scoundrel". I'm not finding you very coherent, frankly. I suspect it's just opinions different to your own that are so reprehensible to you.
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I've said that falling back on being "entitled to your opinion" is the last refuge of a scoundrel, yes It's meaningless, unless you actually mean that you think I'm going to imprison or kill someone right now for their opinion, as opposed to just expressing *my* opinion of them
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