Had us another rally for Roe here in Louisville yesterday. It'd originally been scheduled for Wednesday but weather forced a postponement.
This time we gathered outside the federal courthouse at 6th and Broadway. The day before a judge there issued a preliminary injunction blocking HB3, Kentucky's latest attempt at outlawing abortion. Nobody was celebrating though.
We were there to make our voices heard on the Supreme Court's attempt to drag this country backwards, as well as share information on how abortion will continue to happen no matter what they do.
Once the speakers were done addressing the crowd we took to the streets.
It was 90 degrees (32C) and shade was in short supply so this march ended up being a bit shorter than the one two weeks ago.
Even with the heat we still covered a decent bit of downtown.
Found a bit of shade in the shadow of the buildings...
...and some familiar faces.
After plenty of chanting and blocking traffic we made our way back to the courthouse and called it a day.
We'll be back! Until then, hold the line.
Bless your little heart. Did you come up with that yourself?
Can you rebut the point? The unborn is not part of the mother's body. It is not a parasite. It committed no trespass warranting violence in self-defense. Abortion is deliberate murder of genetically-unique humans at their most vulnerable. Only when this basic fact is acknowledged can we begin a rational discussion of cases like rape and medical danger.
Point? All I saw was a low effort attempt at trolling. I'm glad you dropped by, I've had a question related to this that I've been meaning to ask you for a while. We've had several conversations on the insanity of prohibition/War on Drugs, I was wondering if your opposition to that held true with misoprostol and mifepristone? Same as with substance abuse, abortion has always happened and will continue to happen, so why not at least make it safe?
You can assert something but that doesn't make it a basic fact. If you don't have bodily autonomy then you don't have anything. You seem to be putting the possibility ahead of the person and that just doesn't add up.
I can see an argument for the "morning-after pill," but there is a key distinction to be drawn here between vice and crime. Vice harms the self, crime harms another. The unborn is not the self, it is another. As such, the arguments against drug and alcohol prohibition, anti-prostitution laws, etc. do not apply to deliberately inducing abortion. If there is a real medical problem, that would require a physician's advice, not mine.
On a wider scale, we need to inculcate a culture of personal responsibility. Maybe a culture of casual sex is unhealthy. Whether it is or not, we can still promote condoms, vasectomies, spermicides, IUDs, the aforementioned morning-after pill, etc. to encourage that responsibility aspect. But once you have created a life, you have created an obligation. Treating any human life as a disposable commodity, right? Why should stage of development matter?
What about the bodily autonomy of the unborn, who has committed no trespass? It's not even like a stowaway found on a ship at sea, it's more like someone shanghaied without their consent. Murdering either would be murder, but the stowaway at least chose to go where they were not wanted.
You're using the same line of reasoning and it's still just as wrong. The churches lost the battle against birth control so they simply retrenched with abortion.
'Inculcate a culture of personal responsibility,' is that how they say root hog or die these days? What's personal responsibility got to do with 12 years olds getting pregnant like happened regularly where I grew up? Would it make you feel better if we went back to calling it a miscarriage like they did before Roe?
You're claiming that something that doesn't exist has rights that supersede the ones of those already existent. Or in other words, putting the cart before the horse.
Accountability also applies to the father. How are/were these 12-year-olds getting pregnant? It certainly wasn't a thing when and where I grew up. If older teens are having sex with younger teens today, it's a failure of sex ed and teaching respect. Pedos need to choose between woodchippers and child support for both their victims and their offspring.
Is the abortion debate really about rape and life-threatening medical emergencies, though, or about treating other lives as disposable when they are an inconvenience? My argument about when a new life begins is scientifically validated. Abortion does not meet the standards for self-defense or eviction analogies in the vast majority of instances, if at all.
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