And I'm surprised...?

No, actually not. Like I said before, I just prefer to have all the information. I usually don't discuss politics on the Internet because a) I sometimes come across as a dick and b) it isn't actually a discussion. Discussion implies an exchange of ideas and a debate about the merit of those ideas.

Politics is not that way any more. Last week in Texas, the Supreme Court rulings, and other things that show that discussion and dissent are not allowed. Only proselytizing.

Yeah, I hate when people frame the debate as "pro-life" vs. "pro-death." I don't like abortion, but I don't think that the government has the right to regulate what women do with their bodies.

The argument against abortion has nothing to do with what the woman does to her body. I think everyone is fine with that. The abortion argument ultimately rests on one question:

Is it a person?

Because if it is, then the effects on the woman's body becomes secondary to the death of the other person. And even if we say we're "almost certain" it's not a person, is it worth taking that chance?

Robbing an innocent person of their entire life, no matter the "expected" quality, is much worse than whatever the mother would have to go through. I don't need to be a woman to make that call. Now, I'm not belittling what the mother goes through at all, and of course a lot of the time the pregnancy isn't her fault. But that doesn't justify killing a person.

Awwwww, look at the kitty!

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