(June 29, 2022 at 4:28 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(June 27, 2022 at 9:00 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: The only real plan pro-lifers have to help these babies they "saved" is to expect people to hold to a very unrealistic sexual standard. Some people might be okay with not having sex before marriage, but bear in mind: the same scene from Spotlight where the expert explained that 6% of all Catholic priests offend against children pointed out that half of all priests break their laws of celibacy (mostly in more normal ways).  And priests are men who made a solemn oath to be celibate, and are usually well past their sexual prime. If they can't do it, I can see no reason to expect that horny teenagers will all abstain. The closest thing I've seen to a solution for them is to just marry and not divorce. Fun fact: this is the #4 most popular post on r/prolife and this should speak volumes about how much work they've put into fixing the problem:

They have a bullshit idea of how things should be, and if they don't actually pan out, well, I guess those are the breaks. Just as long as you don't have an abortion or end a relationship.


Rather telling is this little ad: 



Somehow, it never occurred to the makers of this ad that maybe men like these, the kind that balk at the responsibilities of parenthood, or even the sort of responsibility where they're not trying and failing to be the next PewDiePie probably wouldn't make good parents. Or that making them do so would probably end up making life worse for everyone, including the baby you're trying to keep alive.

These men are so full of shit. Nobody is saying a parent, female or male should ditch their responsibility after a baby is born. In America everyone already knows, and rightfully expects that you are, at a minimum, responsible financially for that child or children until they are 18. These bullshit arguments are simply manufactured by right wingers pretending to be "hip" and trying to pretend they are the real heros. 

These idiots do not understand that there is no such thing as a perfect utopia, yet they stupidly try to chase one. This isn't about life, this is simply another passive aggressive way to attempt to control crotches that do not belong to them.

These idiots might as well be in the Taliban and force their wives to wear bee keeper suits.

And a special FUCK YOU, to these assholes. I know what it is like to have a father who abandoned me, and adoptive father who physically punched me hard all the time to punish me. FUCK THESE ASSHOLES.

And the reason I posted this one in particular is because, frankly, if these guys are going to be like that, they shouldn't be the ones taking care of a baby.

Either these unborn babies' potential lives are so important that you're willing to turn the Supreme Court of the US into just another bunch of partisan hacks, or they're so expendable that you're fine with having jackasses like these being forced to raise them, and probably stuck in marriages that they can't get out of, thus likely making them more resentful and more likely to turn this household abusive. THEY CANNOT BE BOTH.

And lest anyone think that my part about keeping them stuck in these marriages is stretching it, just remember, this was the #2 most popular post on r/prolife.


Yes, the official pro-life community of one of the most popular websites on the fucking planet, and, evidently, the community agrees with the sentiments of the meme (even if they're not even doing the NPC meme right, since the NPC in question [who I think is supposed to be a strawman spouting broilerplate arguments] isn't making an argument any pro-choicer would agree with) enough that it's the second most popular post there.

It's only going to get worse. They're going to attempt a federal ban. By the time they realize how fucking stupid this is, there's going to be so much damage that has been done already.

I live in a "safe" state right now (Massachusetts) which is mostly good, but it also means there's not a hell of a lot I can do from here. It's not like protesting when we're already doing the right thing makes much difference. I already vote, donate, speak our, all that good stuff. Fat lotta good it's done.

To answer the OP, the GOP plan includes letting women die from ectopic pregnancies and incomplete miscarriages, because doctors will be too afraid of prosecution to perform the medically necessary abortion. But that's fine, they think that's one less slut in the world.

(June 30, 2022 at 7:47 pm)Orbit Wrote: To answer the OP, the GOP plan includes letting women die from ectopic pregnancies and incomplete miscarriages, because doctors will be too afraid of prosecution to perform the medically necessary abortion. But that's fine, they think that's one less slut in the world.

Worth noting: at least some lawmakers seem to legitimately believe it's possible to transplant an ectopic pregnancy without killing the fetus. Fortunately, that bill failed, but we cannot rule out the possibility that future laws will require doctors to perform other impossible procedures instead of trying to induce an abortion when the mother's life depends on it.