Yeah, the messaging is asinine.Nealithi wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:00 pm I was pro-life in high school because of poor representation. Our health class brought in both pro life and pro choice people to talk to us. The pro life people gave their spiel and answered questions. Ask a new question they had a new answer. Rephrase a question and they rephrased the answer but it was basically the same answer as before. Interesting, made me look forward to the arguments from pro choice the next day.
Pro choice. . . "It is up to the individual to determine when life begins." That was verbatim the only response they gave. Frustrating, I asked for the line. When is life, alive. "It is up to the individual to determine when life begins." I yelled back at them. "Lady by that logic I could shoot you and just claim I didn't think you are alive yet and you are thirty!" Interesting visit to the guidance counselor.
Part of the issue is the fact that the law regarding pregnancy is something that medical professionals are iffy about making absolute because it turns out fetal health is a difficult thing and full of complications. Which no one in the world seems capable of fucking articulating.
"The doctor and the patient need to determine this shit because we don't know what situation might come up. The fetus is braindead at 9th months, the fetus will kill the mother, the fetus will render the mother sterile if born, and so on."
Which, fine, most women who carry a fetus 9 months aren't interested in suddenly aborting it unless something damn serious is going on.
But no one is having that conversation about specifics because it's easier to say, "Baby murderer" than "maybe when a fetus can survive on its own out of the mother, we can say that's when doctors are obligated to take it out"
My wife is a lot harder and said, "Democrats should say anyone who forces a woman to have a baby she doesn't want is a rapist the same way Republicans call them murderers. Its forced sexual activity after all."
