24/ @BarackObama also sees the threat of eugenics practices. In the 1990 Harvard Law Review, the not-yet-30 Obama considered how policies upholding “fetal rights” could be used to establish state control over pregnant women’s behaviors. http://theinfluence.org/what-harvard-era-obama-said-about-pregnant-women-who-use-drugs/ …
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25/ We should understand that there are secular rights and there are what believers consider to be divine gifts / rights from God. Problems arise when we collapse the two.
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26/ A woman's "reproductive right" is a secular notion, some would argue, which derives from a divine right of autonomy and freedom. It is also viewed by many to be a divine gift / right which should never be abridged by civil authority.
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27/ The use of birth control by married couples was unlawful in some states until Griswold v Connecticut (1965). The government's practice of eugenics (forced sterilization) against some women was upheld by the US Supreme Court in Buck v Bell (1927).
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28/ On the other hand, a "right to life" is both secular and divinely rooted. The lines between secular and divine rights are not always clear. We must pay close attention to the motivations behind laws which affect a woman's reproductive choices,
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29/ and ask how those motivations can be turned around under to achieve opposite results. Yes, govt has no reach into my body, because I understand how slippery the slope is. The government's return to the days of eugenics is not an unreasonable or irrational thought. //END
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30/ ADDENDUM: There is more to “pro-life” than the abortion issue.https://twitter.com/i/moments/954462882451861505 …
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Truth Writer Retweeted Tess Owen
31/ I have a feeling this thread will remain open for the near future. Did someone say “Joseph Mengele”?https://twitter.com/misstessowen/status/958765191835144199 …
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Tess OwenVerified account @misstessowenScoop by@carter_sherman: The Trump official in charge of refugee resettlement considered using a controversial, scientifically unproven method to reverse an undocumented teen's abortion. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/yw5a5g/exclusive-trump-officials-discussed-reversing-abortion-for-undocumented-teen …Show this thread5 replies 33 retweets 95 likesShow this thread -
32/ Citizens who have in the past checked “white” on the Census will be asked for more information about the origin of their family roots. This, of course, rings familiar to practices in Nazi Germany.https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/566975742/2020-census-may-ask-white-people-to-get-specific-about-their-ethnicity …
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Truth Writer Retweeted Catholic Herald
33/ If the GOP has its way, all “useless eaters” would be euthanized, which is exactly why legal control over a woman’s reproductive rights must be denied to the government.https://twitter.com/catholicherald/status/959335661479264256 …
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this makes about zero sense, you are all over the place and conflating several different arguments all in a giant flurry of tautology to support your cath-left position.
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