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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 89 points 10 months ago

Did anti-abortion camp really think abortion is killing infant?

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 73 points 10 months ago

In the same way they believe the civil war was about states’ rights.

They’re lying to make their position seem less outrageous.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Some of them, yeah. A lot of them are just dumb as rocks, and have been duped into thinking that what they're doing is moral.

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Right wing in general is full of the easily deceived and hateful.

2 main tactics used is to either convince the stupid people you're on their side helping them with their ideals, or that the things they hate are a threat and you're the only one who can save them.

It's a shame it's turned into this, and that right wing went so crazy that left wing is now just about not letting them destroy the world.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 40 points 10 months ago

They do think abortion is killing babies, just unborn babies. That's what half the argument comes down to. One side thinks it's "should it be legal to kill unborn babies?" and the other side thinks it's "should it be legal to end your pregnancy before it's a baby?" And it's hard to find a middle ground because the former thinks they're babies as soon as they're conceived and the latter thinks it's a good way later down the road.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Personally, I just don't think pregnant women need legal restrictions here. I imagine, ultra-conservatives think that more liberal women just have tons of unprotected sex and gladly risk getting pregnant, because they can just get an abortion.

But I've never seen that actually being a thing. Women will generally use some form of contraception to avoid getting pregnant in the first place. And if they do get pregnant, I have never heard of any woman, who took the decision to get an abortion lightly.

I believe that no woman will apply a lower moral standard to her unborn baby (or not-yet-baby, whatever) than our moral standards for human life in general.

Outright prohibiting abortion is not a higher moral standard, because you'll have many cases where the outcome is worse for everyone involved, e.g. when the baby is already dead, but cannot be removed.

[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Women will generally use some form of contraception to avoid getting pregnant in the first place.

Hence why some people are talking about targeting contraception.

[-] jpeps@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

This is so worthwhile talking about. I used to struggle with this stuff quite a bit until realising what you've said here. The right frequently seems to mischaracterise pro-choice as pro-abortion, and that is completely wrong. No one likes abortion. And yet, it happens. Conservatives should do some introspection on those two facts.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago

And now the hard question, when does it become a baby?

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

At some point between conception and birth, range inclusive.

I don't know. I'm not an expert, and the only experience I had with it was before I can remember.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago

I think science cannot answer either, it's all continuous, so legal limits are rather arbitrary based on what's socially accepted.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

They constantly talk about how people want to extend abortions into the entire pregnancy like that’s actually a thing. Maybe the first person is doing it on purpose fucking with the fact that any sane person would let an invalid/lethal pregnancy go to save the mother’s life but the goons who listen to that crap don’t check.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Swedish news actually interviewed a woman running for congress who wanted to allow abortions up until and including month 9. I'm sorry that I don't have any more memory of it than that. She felt hurt by the fact that roe v wade had been overturned.

My honest reaction was "well that's a slight overcorrection, good luck with that campaign" and then I forgot about her until I read your comment.

I'll try to find her name and edit this post if I do.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

My wife's born again idiot ex-friend who came to visit her and tell her she's a baby killer (never had an abortion, but is pro-choice) insisted people are aborting babies at 9 months.

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 19 points 10 months ago

Removing the baby at 9 months is just called giving birth.

[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that's what I told my mom. She tried to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. They wouldn't just deliver the baby and let someone adopt it if the birth parents don't want it. No, they'll kill the baby mid-delivery. I hate that it's my mom, but some people can't be reasoned with.

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

I started asking for examples of when that happened.

It's funny how angry people get when you ask them for proof of their ridiculous claim. Especially when they start insisting they have the proof, they just don't feel like sharing "because of your attitude" and when it gets to that point I just openly start laughing at them.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That's the problem with cultists. They believe everything without proof to the point they believe proof is wrong somehow. Like the only valid beliefs are ones that are taken on faith and run counter to all logic and reason.

After all, if everything you believe isn't totally bullshit, how can you claim you have faith?

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

My mother STILL believes that "partial birth abortion" is a thing. Like, at one point she literally believed doctors would use a reflex-testing mallet to smash in a baby's skull as it was being born. I heard these words come out of her mouth when I was a child.

Now she just thinks they use a surgical hose to suck the brain out as it's coming out.

My mother in law also threatened to not come to the wedding because I made a pro-choice post on social media. It was literally my only post of the year, because I only keep the account for messaging family. She insisted I'm a baby killer. She also thinks someday she and her family will be dragged out in the street and executed for being christian.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 18 points 10 months ago
[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 months ago

If it’s talking to you, it’s a toddler. And all the fucking guns are killing most of those.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

People talk to me all the time. I can't make sense of what they're saying. Are they toddlers?

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Speaking only for myself, yes.

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