Current Events > Pro-Life should be a liberal virtue and Pro-Choice conservative

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gbpxl
03/25/18 2:32:17 PM
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Why Pro-Life should be liberal:
- Defending the defenseless is typically a very liberal trait. If a person wants to defend a forest from being cut down because a moth could go extinct, that person is likely to be liberal. If a person wants to defend the rights of a transgender who might represent .1% of the population, that person is likely to be liberal. An unborn fetus is literally the most defenseless class of human beings on the planet, more vulnerable than any ethnic minority or LGBT person.

- Most of the unborn people being murdered/aborted are black. This is not a racist claim, it is a statistic that can be verified by a simple Google search. Liberals usually want to support minorities and the rally cry today is "Black lives matter"

- It deals in facts. Liberals tend to not care if facts fly in the face of their pre-conceived notions. The fact is that an abortion is ugly. There is a lot of blood. Cracked skulls. Little arms and legs being sucked up through a vacuum. A horrible and gruesome death for an innocent life.

- Some liberals have argued that a chimpanzee should be given the same rights as humans given that they are 98.6% genetically the same as humans. I would argue that since a fetus is 100% genetically the same as a human, those rights should also extend to a fetus.

Why Pro-Choice should be conservative:
- Abortion is fiscally conservative. A lot of money is saved by someone paying for a $400 abortion than thousands of dollars every year for the infant's food, medical care, and eventual schooling- all of which would be funded by taxpayers.

- Murdering a few to prevent the murder of more in the future is typically a conservative talking point. If violent crime plummeted 18 years after Roe vs Wade was passed in 1973, this is evidence that the people who were aborted were more likely to become criminals. Unwantedness leads to people becoming criminals. If they are aborted, they won't be able to commit crimes or kill anyone in the future. The original point is that conservatives defend this way of thinking routinely. Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Well we needed to bomb them because more people would've died had we invaded Japan. Iraq? Well we need to kill them before they kill thousands of others.

- the point about most aborted fetuses being black... yeah this one is pretty self-explanatory. alt-right people should have no problem with this statistic.
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Punctus_Pilot
03/25/18 2:34:30 PM
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gbpxl posted...
An unborn fetus is literally human being

There's your first mistake
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Smashingpmkns
03/25/18 2:34:33 PM
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Yeah but you're forgetting religious views.
That being said, conservatives should fundamentally be against the government having any say on what an individual can and cannot do with their body.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 2:36:26 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Yeah but you're forgetting religious views.
That being said, conservatives should fundamentally be against the government having any say on what an individual can and cannot do with their body.

I forgot this point. you are correct. cons hate the government telling them what they can and cannot do and libs are more likely to want govt control of things
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gbpxl
03/25/18 2:36:41 PM
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Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
An unborn fetus is literally human being

There's your first mistake

Care to explain?
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Smashingpmkns
03/25/18 2:39:47 PM
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gbpxl posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Yeah but you're forgetting religious views.
That being said, conservatives should fundamentally be against the government having any say on what an individual can and cannot do with their body.

I forgot this point. you are correct. cons hate the government telling them what they can and cannot do and libs are more likely to want govt control of things


But then they have the argument that resembles something like "the fetus isn't your body" or something.

It really all boils down to religious views though.
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Punctus_Pilot
03/25/18 2:40:10 PM
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gbpxl posted...
Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
An unborn fetus is literally human being

There's your first mistake

Care to explain?

A fetus is not a person
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GiftedACIII
03/25/18 2:49:09 PM
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Everyone should be for abortion.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 2:52:05 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
gbpxl posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Yeah but you're forgetting religious views.
That being said, conservatives should fundamentally be against the government having any say on what an individual can and cannot do with their body.

I forgot this point. you are correct. cons hate the government telling them what they can and cannot do and libs are more likely to want govt control of things


But then they have the argument that resembles something like "the fetus isn't your body" or something.

It really all boils down to religious views though.

No it doesn't. I'm atheist and pro-life.
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creativerealms
03/25/18 2:52:32 PM
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A lot of this has to do with the fact that the right is connected to the hip with Christians. It is christian fundamentalists that push the Pro-Life movement and so conservatives are pro-Life.
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ImTheMacheteGuy
03/25/18 2:53:23 PM
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GiftedACIII posted...
Everyone should be for abortion.

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creativerealms
03/25/18 2:53:40 PM
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gbpxl posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
gbpxl posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Yeah but you're forgetting religious views.
That being said, conservatives should fundamentally be against the government having any say on what an individual can and cannot do with their body.

I forgot this point. you are correct. cons hate the government telling them what they can and cannot do and libs are more likely to want govt control of things


But then they have the argument that resembles something like "the fetus isn't your body" or something.

It really all boils down to religious views though.

No it doesn't. I'm atheist and pro-life.

There are of course exceptions.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 2:55:00 PM
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Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
An unborn fetus is literally human being

There's your first mistake

Care to explain?

A fetus is not a person

So...

Fetus: not human
Infant: human
Child: human
Teenager: human
Adult: human
Senior citizen: human

Do I have that correct?
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gbpxl
03/25/18 2:56:04 PM
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BettyB0op08 posted...
One big thing is that pro life is also quite an anti-women ideology and conservatives are notably anti-women.

What if a woman is pro-life and a fetus is female? How would that be anti-woman?
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Smashingpmkns
03/25/18 2:56:44 PM
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gbpxl posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
gbpxl posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Yeah but you're forgetting religious views.
That being said, conservatives should fundamentally be against the government having any say on what an individual can and cannot do with their body.

I forgot this point. you are correct. cons hate the government telling them what they can and cannot do and libs are more likely to want govt control of things


But then they have the argument that resembles something like "the fetus isn't your body" or something.

It really all boils down to religious views though.

No it doesn't. I'm atheist and pro-life.


You are the exception, not the rule. Pro life is more of a religious view than a political view.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 2:59:21 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
gbpxl posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
gbpxl posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Yeah but you're forgetting religious views.
That being said, conservatives should fundamentally be against the government having any say on what an individual can and cannot do with their body.

I forgot this point. you are correct. cons hate the government telling them what they can and cannot do and libs are more likely to want govt control of things


But then they have the argument that resembles something like "the fetus isn't your body" or something.

It really all boils down to religious views though.

No it doesn't. I'm atheist and pro-life.


You are the exception, not the rule. Pro life is more of a religious view than a political view.

I've met lots of people who are irreligious and pro-life. It's more common than you think.
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TrevorBlack79
03/25/18 3:02:42 PM
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Pro-choice should be a bipartisan issue.
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ImTheMacheteGuy
03/25/18 3:02:55 PM
#19:


gbpxl posted...
Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
An unborn fetus is literally human being

There's your first mistake

Care to explain?

A fetus is not a person

So...

Fetus: not human
Infant: human
Child: human
Teenager: human
Adult: human
Senior citizen: human

Do I have that correct?


Yes, but also

Zygote: not human
Embryo: not human
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:04:19 PM
#20:


ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
An unborn fetus is literally human being

There's your first mistake

Care to explain?

A fetus is not a person

So...

Fetus: not human
Infant: human
Child: human
Teenager: human
Adult: human
Senior citizen: human

Do I have that correct?


Yes, but also

Zygote: not human
Embryo: not human
So at what point does a human... become human?
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ImTheMacheteGuy
03/25/18 3:12:20 PM
#21:


gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
An unborn fetus is literally human being

There's your first mistake

Care to explain?

A fetus is not a person

So...

Fetus: not human
Infant: human
Child: human
Teenager: human
Adult: human
Senior citizen: human

Do I have that correct?


Yes, but also

Zygote: not human
Embryo: not human
So at what point does a human... become human?


When do you think it does?
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Raikuro
03/25/18 3:20:05 PM
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gbpxl posted...
Why Pro-Life should be liberal:
- It deals in facts.

lol no, it's the most emotion based argument of all the hot button talking points.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:20:30 PM
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
When do you think it does?

I asked you first.
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ImTheMacheteGuy
03/25/18 3:24:40 PM
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gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
When do you think it does?

I asked you first.


Oh? It seemed like you were asking for a definitive answer, not an opinion. I was asking your opinion. If you can confirm that you're asking for my opinion, that would validate your statement that you asked first and I would then answer first.
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joestarrr
03/25/18 3:27:29 PM
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Punctus_Pilot posted...
gbpxl posted...
An unborn fetus is literally human being

There's your first mistake

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DesuDeku
03/25/18 3:28:32 PM
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
When do you think it does?

I asked you first.


Oh? It seemed like you were asking for a definitive answer, not an opinion. I was asking your opinion. If you can confirm that you're asking for my opinion, that would validate your statement that you asked first and I would then answer first.

What?
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EndOfDiscOne
03/25/18 3:29:38 PM
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I agree with TC. It shouldnt be about religion but people feel they have to fall in line with their party.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:29:38 PM
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
When do you think it does?

I asked you first.


Oh? It seemed like you were asking for a definitive answer, not an opinion. I was asking your opinion. If you can confirm that you're asking for my opinion, that would validate your statement that you asked first and I would then answer first.

When does a fetus become a human?
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dirtycommunist
03/25/18 3:32:11 PM
#29:


Pro choice is definitely the right "liberal" position.

It's not that liberals are for abortions, or against reproduction. It's that liberals are for family planning, as in people should have control over the circumstances of when they do and do not have babies, which benefits everyone from the child to the family to society at large.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:34:15 PM
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dirtycommunist posted...
Pro choice is definitely the right "liberal" position.

It's not that liberals are for abortions, or against reproduction. It's that liberals are for family planning, as in people should have control over the circumstances of when they do and do not have babies, which benefits everyone from the child to the family to society at large.

Don't condoms and birth control pills afford people that right?
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ImTheMacheteGuy
03/25/18 3:36:32 PM
#31:


gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
When do you think it does?

I asked you first.


Oh? It seemed like you were asking for a definitive answer, not an opinion. I was asking your opinion. If you can confirm that you're asking for my opinion, that would validate your statement that you asked first and I would then answer first.

When does a fetus become a human?


No. Follow instructions.
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dirtycommunist
03/25/18 3:36:32 PM
#32:


gbpxl posted...
Don't condoms and birth control pills afford people that right?

They're definitely part of family planning, but unplanned pregnancies still happen. First line of family planning vs. last line of family planning.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:38:18 PM
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dirtycommunist posted...
gbpxl posted...
Don't condoms and birth control pills afford people that right?

They're definitely part of family planning, but unplanned pregnancies still happen. First line of family planning vs. last line of family planning.

Ending the life of an innocent fetus is not family planning, it is murder.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:38:35 PM
#34:


ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
When do you think it does?

I asked you first.


Oh? It seemed like you were asking for a definitive answer, not an opinion. I was asking your opinion. If you can confirm that you're asking for my opinion, that would validate your statement that you asked first and I would then answer first.

When does a fetus become a human?


No. Follow instructions.

When does a fetus become a human?
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EndOfDiscOne
03/25/18 3:38:51 PM
#35:


dirtycommunist posted...
Pro choice is definitely the right "liberal" position.

It's not that liberals are for abortions, or against reproduction. It's that liberals are for family planning, as in people should have control over the circumstances of when they do and do not have babies, which benefits everyone from the child to the family to society at large.


Even this sounds more conservative.
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ImTheMacheteGuy
03/25/18 3:40:54 PM
#36:


gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
When do you think it does?

I asked you first.


Oh? It seemed like you were asking for a definitive answer, not an opinion. I was asking your opinion. If you can confirm that you're asking for my opinion, that would validate your statement that you asked first and I would then answer first.

When does a fetus become a human?


No. Follow instructions.

When does a fetus become a human?


Keep it up. Disruptive posting.
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dirtycommunist
03/25/18 3:42:13 PM
#37:


gbpxl posted...
Ending the life of an innocent fetus is not family planning, it is murder.

Well, we disagree at a pretty fundamental level here, so there isn't much more to be said. I wish you the best of luck in never needing an abortion.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:42:22 PM
#38:


ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
gbpxl posted...
When do you think it does?

I asked you first.


Oh? It seemed like you were asking for a definitive answer, not an opinion. I was asking your opinion. If you can confirm that you're asking for my opinion, that would validate your statement that you asked first and I would then answer first.

When does a fetus become a human?


No. Follow instructions.

When does a fetus become a human?


Keep it up. Disruptive posting.

When does a fetus become a human?
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Darklit_Minuet
03/25/18 3:43:05 PM
#39:


gbpxl posted...
dirtycommunist posted...
gbpxl posted...
Don't condoms and birth control pills afford people that right?

They're definitely part of family planning, but unplanned pregnancies still happen. First line of family planning vs. last line of family planning.

Ending the life of an innocent fetus is not family planning, it is murder.

No it's not.
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ImTheMacheteGuy
03/25/18 3:43:52 PM
#40:


Okay. Your loss.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:44:08 PM
#41:


dirtycommunist posted...
gbpxl posted...
Ending the life of an innocent fetus is not family planning, it is murder.

Well, we disagree at a pretty fundamental level here, so there isn't much more to be said. I wish you the best of luck in never needing an abortion.

I use condoms. I check afterwards to make sure the condom did its job. If it didn't, we have a morning after pill. None of those methods involve killing a fetus. Why am I the only one able to understand how to properly use birth control?
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:44:43 PM
#42:


Darklit_Minuet posted...
gbpxl posted...
dirtycommunist posted...
gbpxl posted...
Don't condoms and birth control pills afford people that right?

They're definitely part of family planning, but unplanned pregnancies still happen. First line of family planning vs. last line of family planning.

Ending the life of an innocent fetus is not family planning, it is murder.

No it's not.

Explain.
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Zodd3224
03/25/18 3:47:25 PM
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Im pretty liberal and I think abortions are wrong.
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Darklit_Minuet
03/25/18 3:48:47 PM
#44:


gbpxl posted...
Explain

Murder is defined as the illegal taking of human life. Nothing illegal about abortion.

I consider it more along the lines of justified self defense, a woman is allowed to prevent others from using her body against her will.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:50:11 PM
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Darklit_Minuet posted...
gbpxl posted...
Explain

Murder is defined as the illegal taking of human life. Nothing illegal about abortion.

I consider it more along the lines of justified self defense, a woman is allowed to prevent others from using her body against her will.

Killing a baby is self-defense? Was the baby going to kill the abortion doctor? The mother?
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dirtycommunist
03/25/18 3:50:41 PM
#46:


gbpxl posted...
I use condoms. I check afterwards to make sure the condom did its job. If it didn't, we have a morning after pill. None of those methods involve killing a fetus. Why am I the only one able to understand how to properly use birth control?

Congratulations on utilizing yet another form of family planning! But this doesn't invalidate what I said about unplanned pregnancies still happening. Condoms and morning after pills don't do much good at that point.

Yes you can rebut this by saying abortion is murder, but no I still won't agree with that premise.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:53:36 PM
#47:


dirtycommunist posted...
gbpxl posted...
I use condoms. I check afterwards to make sure the condom did its job. If it didn't, we have a morning after pill. None of those methods involve killing a fetus. Why am I the only one able to understand how to properly use birth control?

Congratulations on utilizing yet another form of family planning! But this doesn't invalidate what I said about unplanned pregnancies still happening. Condoms and morning after pills don't do much good at that point.

Yes you can rebut this by saying abortion is murder, but no I still won't agree with that premise.

If your condom fails and your morning after pill fails, that is God/Allah/Manbearpig/flying spaghetti monster's way of saying you are destined to have a child.
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hollow_shrine
03/25/18 3:56:22 PM
#48:


Everyone should be pro-choice.

Conservatism on grounds of personal agency, and empowering people to make the best choices for their lives. That includes personal responsibility, which is more often coded language used to shame people who get abortions despite that likely being the responsible decision given their circumstances.

Liberalism on grounds of social and economic justice. And strategic thinking that fewer children born to unprepared or unwanting patents equals fewer drains on society further down the line and fewer things feeding back into these families' cycles of poverty. And liberalism would wring it's hands at the possibility of not having this as an option.

It's only when we move towards nationalistic or authoritarian extremes that these positions make internal sense.
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gbpxl
03/25/18 3:59:02 PM
#49:


hollow_shrine posted...
Everyone should be pro-choice.

Conservatism on grounds of personal agency, and empowering people to make the best choices for their lives. That includes personal responsibility, which is more often coded language used to shame people who get abortions despite that likely being the responsible decision given their circumstances.

Liberalism on grounds of social and economic justice. And strategic thinking that fewer children born to unprepared or unwanting patents equals fewer drains on society further down the line and fewer things feeding back into these families' cycles of poverty. And liberalism would wring it's hands at the possibility of not having this as an option.

It's only when we move towards nationalistic or authoritarian extremes that these positions make internal sense.

You said everyone should be pro-choice. If a fetus had the means to speak an opinion, would he/she be pro-choice?
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ImTheMacheteGuy
03/25/18 4:00:28 PM
#50:


gbpxl posted...
dirtycommunist posted...
gbpxl posted...
I use condoms. I check afterwards to make sure the condom did its job. If it didn't, we have a morning after pill. None of those methods involve killing a fetus. Why am I the only one able to understand how to properly use birth control?

Congratulations on utilizing yet another form of family planning! But this doesn't invalidate what I said about unplanned pregnancies still happening. Condoms and morning after pills don't do much good at that point.

Yes you can rebut this by saying abortion is murder, but no I still won't agree with that premise.

If your condom fails and your morning after pill fails, that is God/Allah/Manbearpig/flying spaghetti monster's way of saying you are destined to have a child.


THERE we go. THAT'S what I needed to see.
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