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Ann Menasche's avatar

Abortion rights are essemtial to women’s freedom and dignity. We are not walking incubators. Pregnancy effects every organ in the body, and can threaten our health and even lives. Early abortion is far safer then giving birth. The decision whether to bear a child belongs to the womsn.

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Candis's avatar

You need to take that bs argument up with your maker. I’m sure you will get the opportunity one day.

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coffeebits's avatar

God isn't real.

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Candis's avatar

I didn't say God. That's your religious baggage putting words in my mouth. Take some advanced anatomy and physiology classes and get back to me though. If you've already done so and still remain on your petty, human, 'know it all' high horse.. then there is little hope you'll be getting down off it in this lifetime.

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Paolo Biscotto's avatar

The gaslight smells strong here. What’s a “maker”?

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coffeebits's avatar

Oh, so when you said 'maker' you meant 'anatomy & physiology'. Of course. I teach the classes you're talking about. The fact that women can get pregnant has nothing to do with whether they should be forced to give birth. In fact it is a natural phenomenon throughout our species' history for new mothers who cannot feasibly care for their neonates to kill them - this maximizes reproductive success in a species that invests such an unusually large amount of resources into their offspring, by allowing mothers to preserve what resources they have for the future, when they may be in a more tenable position for successful child-rearing. Avoiding the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth via abortion only further enhances the success of this strategy, which has already been selected for through evolution.

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Candis's avatar

That's a lot of word salad deflection for an anatomy and physiology teacher, lmaoo

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coffeebits's avatar

This isn't class, and there's nothing to deflect.

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Candis's avatar

Then I have no idea why you were so self-assuredly lecturing me about topics I never mentioned. I think you have me confused with someone else.

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coffeebits's avatar

Maybe so. First I had you confused with someone who thinks women are walking incubators because god made them that way. Then I had you confused with someone who thinks women are walking incubators because A&P made them that way (and thought to rebut the notion this means they should not receive abortions on scientific grounds).

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Hazel-rah's avatar

The recent Circuit Court decisions impacting sex vs. gender are mostly promising, but your position isn't as protected as Maya Forstater's in the UK as I'm sure you know. Anything at all from that case applicable to yours do you think?

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