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niyad

(113,490 posts) Wed Oct 7, 2015, 09:36 PM Oct 2015

Imagine the GOP outrage if someone said:

(stolen from du'er rocknrule responding to pic of the moment about that clueless, hateful young earth creationist, ben carson)

Imagine the GOP outrage if someone said

"I've never seen an aborted fetus that was more devastating than taking away a woman's right to sovereignty over her own body"

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Imagine the GOP outrage if someone said: (Original Post) niyad Oct 2015 OP

Ayn Rand said far worse Major Nikon Oct 2015 #1

funny how the randian reichwingnutjobs never mention that little quote. niyad Oct 2015 #2

'cause they hear "no income taxes" and they're overcome with heroin-like paroxysms of orgasmic bliss Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #3

sadly, you are quite correct. niyad Oct 2015 #4

There would be all kinds of outrage. Kath1 Oct 2015 #5

all but the woman-hating gestational slavers. niyad Oct 2015 #6

True, Kath1 Oct 2015 #7

there are, but the other side gets far more press and media attention. niyad Oct 2015 #8

Yeah, that drives me nuts, too. Kath1 Oct 2015 #9

the woman-hating gestational slavers have never gotten over the fact that, for a brief moment, niyad Oct 2015 #10

Choice = Freedom. Kath1 Oct 2015 #11

Major Nikon

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1. Ayn Rand said far worse

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Wed Oct 7, 2015, 09:42 PM

Oct 2015

An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).

Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?