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In reply to the discussion: Abortion: what is really the issue? [View all]KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)54. The issue is control of women.
It has jack crap to do with religious beliefs, "right to life", "pro birth" or any other such. The vast majority of these so called right to lifers eat meat, support wars and the death penalty. They'll fling insecticides all over the damn place and will moan the loudest if some "nut job left wing crazies" want to stop the rape of the planet's resources to save wildlife.
When I meet one of these people who start spewing about abortion, I ask them if they eat meat. When they inevitably say yes, I simply say ... then you aren't really pro life, are you?
That generally shuts them up. I know I'm not winning anyone over. I've yet to find a single one who can be won over until it's their family impacted.
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Yep. Most everything in the Boble supports abortion. Very little "pro-forced birth."
TheBlackAdder
Oct 2020
#21
Someone asked some Republicans about paying a child stippend for those pregnant during COVID. . .
TheBlackAdder
Oct 2020
#22
The apple in the garden of Eden represented knowledge. That's what they're against
Walleye
Oct 2020
#5
The religious "tenets" re: abortion are not based on logic, except perhaps for the political gains
hlthe2b
Oct 2020
#11
Theologically, it is all about "ensoulment" -- the moment that the fetus receives a "soul"
Klaralven
Oct 2020
#17
I find it always freaks people out when I point out there are directions in the Bible.
Gore1FL
Oct 2020
#18
evolutionary psychology. it is the prime directive to pass on that packet of dna.
mopinko
Oct 2020
#20
Like all the other GOP hard-line stands, it's bait and switch, and that's why it's nonsense
Mr. Ected
Oct 2020
#30
"How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control" - an article from 2018
OnDoutside
Oct 2020
#44