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Anyway, different point: The hell of this issue is that late-term abortion bans are not entirely a bad thing in theory. No one argues that it's okay to remove a viable, healthy fetus at, say, 8 months and 27 days and throw it in a wood chipper. But the real danger is that it's only the anti-abortion absolutists who get behind these bans, and their goal is to push those bans all the way back to zero. We pro-choicers need to hold our noses and make these term-limit bans OUR issue. Don't let them get taken over by the SBs of the world.
I really wish there was a feature that allowed me to still see what he posted. It is just too hilarious to pass up!
He still has a few undeleted comments in the Caitlyn Jenner thread, toward the end. He calls me an "isiot"... He's a comic genius and doesn't even realize it.
SB keeps calling us all deviants, but in the end, by coming here over and over again to have his unfounded opinions destroyed, he's proving himself to be quite the closet masochist.
everyone has them but women’s are a little bit more relevant
but men's are all you ever see" -@br1dgit
I didn't think they were that offensive - and I was the target!
RIP, shit-brained idiot.
He's probably got a few other profiles. He will be back.
Just look at the latest from Pew to understand what is happening with the Tea Party (culture war jihadists re-branded as Libertarians), the GOP base and the shift on same-sex marriage. SB is clearly a culture war jihadi and I'm sure he feels his spewings here as a trip into the Lion's Den.
From a political perspective, Walker and other presidential hopefuls will be expressing these views throughout the primary season. So I see no way that Republicans can narrow the gender gap, which may actually widen. Whether that happens or not, since the early 1990s, the conservative movement has turned-off many female voters. As this has happened one can only wonder what values "conservatives" are seeking to maintain when half the electorate is overwhelmingly repulsed.
BUT
Can we please end this "Male politician thinks he knows best about this women's issue" (sub in your favorite politicans and issues).
A politician can only be one person, the necessarily represent many people. Either Walker's qualified to weigh in on what aught to be done over his consituents, or he is not. This only opens the door for, say, the following attack:
"Hillary Clinton knows best how soldiers feel about being forced to kill" or some other gobledy nonsense. And when articles like this are written, I can only assume that the author is equally stupid and their opinion absolutely not worth listening to.
Yes. Offensive. The whole notion of forcing women to have ultrasounds.
If they continue to make abortion such a hard find for women, the back street butchers will return. Maybe that's what these people want.
Scott Walker, being a cisgendered male, has never been qualified to know how a woman feels about being pregnant after being raped. He has never been a woman who was capable of being pregnant.
You're stuck with Scott Walker - for now - because the conservatives, reactionaries, Republicans, etc. know that local and state elections matter. They did a good job of motivating their voters - with negative messages of anger, fear, and hate, which are generally much more motivating than positive messages - to get out and vote. If you want to get rid of Walker, and others of his ilk in state and local government, you need to get involved in local and state politics on the progressive side. You need to talk to progressive family and friends and impress on them the importance of getting registered and voting in all elections, not just presidential elections. Don't just get angry - get involved.
Really, it's just lazy thinking overall. Walker's an elected rep. He's no more/less qualified to speak on men's issues. He's no more/less qualified to speak on (say) international trade, diplomacy, financial policy, health care, or any other number of subjects. If you think it's a stupid policy, fine enough. We all know the classic fallacies, even thought I haven't checked, ad-hominem is on it.
I figured Republicans were going to lose their collective minds after President Obama was elected for a second time....I didn't realize they were going to pivot completely I f the edge, into oblivion.
Although really, the thing that makes me craziest about post-20 week abortion bans is the fact that SO FEW abortions take place after 20 weeks,and those that do are usually medically necessary. You don't even get your anatomy scan of the fetus to know that everything is basically okay until 20 weeks, in most cases, so if something horrific is going on with the health of the baby, the kind of condition where one might easily argue that it's in fact cruel to bring them into the world, you AND THE KID are already screwed if a 20 week ban is in place.
That's just weird reasoning to me. And if their reasoning is "well, it would be too hard on the woman, having to carry the child when it's a constant reminded of the rape", I wonder why their empathy for how women feels about pregnancy stops there. Surely, being pregnant is always traumatic to some extent when the child is unwanted. If you don't want the child, it's a parasite eating your body from the inside and making you sick, for nine months. It's also a violation of your body, it's also your body being used without any regard for your consent if you're not given the right to end it.
Anyway, I find the guy's point of view vile. But I find his consistency easier to understand than the more traditional pro-life point of view.
Oh, and that whole ultrasound thing is stupid. Notice also how he's talking about what the grandparents or the kids feel about the picture, not the mothers? It's like they're being erased from the picture again. Have an ultrasound! Your parents (or the dad's parents) and the kid you don't want might enjoy it!
Personally, I think having a child is a contract the mother (and father, hopefully) make with the society: to raise a caring, thoughtful, good person. It's a contract that goes on for your whole life, and anyone who has *any* hesitation about that shouldn't have to do it. Hopefully they are able to get good contraception, and use it correctly, but if not, I have no problem with abortions.
Not to be crude, but it's not like we're short people these days. We got plenty. Let's make sure the new ones are all wanted and loved.