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matchup of the century

“Fetal personhood” is the legal fiction that fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses are already separate persons with rights that government officials can protect by controlling the bodies and lives of pregnant women. It gives fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses a right no born human being possesses—the right to use the body of another human being without their consent, even if that use harms pregnant women’s health or costs them their lives.

This is kind of the crux of the pro-choice position, for me. Where life begins is a complicated question, and as someone who isn't religious, I don't care if other people believe like every sperm has a soul or whatever. It's the legal enforcement of these beliefs that give an egg rights I as a citizen do not have that's the problem. Rights I shouldn't have. I shouldn't be able to tell someone I need their kidney to live and have cops arrest them if they say no.

It's never actually about that, anyway, except for a few true believers. It's about control, as this article makes clear. Most of the cases didn't even involve abortion.

Pregnant women are in a special class of persons, under an exacting microscope and subject to arrest for otherwise non-existent crimes, such as “illegal breastfeeding” or “unlawful delays in obtaining health care.”

And, of course, there's the hypocrisy. If harming fetuses even in ways that don't involve abortion are criminal offenses, there are a lot of companies that are doing harm enmasse to these beings more precious than living women and pregnant people.

I don't believe prolife people anymore when they say it's about protecting life.

Ok, nothing else you said made me laugh, but this comment crossed you over into parody.

Yeah, I'll never know their hearts and minds, so it doesn't really matter compared to their actions.

I don't mind giving them an out, personally, if they need a way to pretend they're not shitty, amoral people (i was tricked! gosh! I would never parrot obvious lies for my own advantage! I was naive!) to resolve cognitive dissonance and stop being shitty in this way. I don't blame anyone else for not giving that to them.

They don't deserve it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(Blake)

Blake's opposition to the Enlightenment was deeply rooted. In his annotation to his own engraving of the classical character Laocoön, Blake wrote "Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death."

You know, I did get the impression this wasn't a flattering portrait, but he really hated newton, apparently.

Newton was incorporated into Blake's infernal trinity along with the philosophers Francis Bacon and John Locke.[5]

Damn!

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Puzzle #479
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I'm glad they're trying to do something about that bs. The sorts of people worming into election boards scare me even more than the election itself. They believe conspiracy theories so easily.

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Wordle 1,196 3/6

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That's an interesting way to think about it

I'd love to read a historian's book on these comics. Like, this one's pretty obvious, but finding out historical context on some of the others would be really cool.

I watched Super Sleepover Society's playthrough of this, and I debated if I'd enjoy the gameplay. The silly story is just my sort of thing, though.

Game #225
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My disc 2 was fucked up so I only finished the game by saving every minute or so, because it'd crash constantly.

Misogyny isn't just a man thing! Women participate it in (against the "bad" ones) all the time.

It's so easy to just look up a picture of harris' dad.

I thought the bullshit right wing argument was that she only brought up that part of her background for political points, not the even more ludicrous argument that a black man from jamaica is actually white.

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oops wrong day!