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Less wanking, more JAQing off. Wait, they’re the same thing in this context. Continue, Herr Wanker.
Pierce’s latest meanders a bit, but it’s enjoyable.
As are some of the comments.
… of an organization dedicated to respectfully helping women to make informed decisions with the help of medical professionals, ideally without them needing to run a gauntlet of “sidewalk counselors” screaming at them and trying to push viscious and dishonest material in their faces.
Yes, I imagine trying to create that kind of safe space for women would seem like “troubling extremism” to people like George Will.
I can see that he finds the distinction between respect for diversity of opinion and allowing organized harassment and intimidation a hard distinction to make.
“Infanticide” seems to be a new GOP buzz word – a logical extension of the belief (rational people know facts; wingnuts believe things) that at the moment of conception an embryo is the same as a human being.
Either these morans have no clue how offensive that “infanticide” talking point is to people outside their bubble, or they know and that’s why they like it. Either way it’s a pretty damning meme, but not in the way they think it is.
“Annoy a liberal” seems to be the conservatives’ only agenda now.
Unless Will is writing about the Cubs, he’s a perennial WotD.
If only a dozen or so sidewalk counselors would follow George Will around for a while, trying to show him the error of his ways. I bet he’d call the cops PDQ.
It’s amazing to think that 40 years ago abortion was considered a catholic issue – fundamentalists didn’t see it as a problem.
Now, of course, they’ve always been at war with abortion. I’m sure we can guess why the change of heart.
I’d argue they saw it as a problem before 40 years ago. They didn’t see it as a problem until they noticed that Catholics were having a lot fewer abortions than their denominations. And then the thought of, “Oh shit, even though we outnumber Catholics by many multiples, if we don’t stop abortion they will take over the world!!!” Then they became against it.
I have to respectfully disagree.
It is not just abortion, it is birth control in general (which they also consider abortion). The goal is to re-subjugate women.
Three things changed human society:
1 – Development of agriculture, which stopped the hunter/gathering and allowed cities to form;
2 – The invention of the wheel, which increased mobility and eased labor;
3 – The invention of Birth Control which freed women to join the workforce in full-force without fear of having to quit once pregnant.
By eliminating abortion/birth control, the goal is to return America to the “pristine” word of the 1950s, where husbands worked and wives stayed at home to raise the kids.
Oh that’s definitely a goal of theirs, of course. Remember, they had no problem with abortion when the husbands and fathers made the decision for them. It’s why the Romans opposed abortion (it was the “man’s” child, and the woman should not get control over it). After all, it’s why the original feminist movement’s leaders were against abortion, believing it to be mysoginist to force women against their will into what was then an unsafe procedure. It was only when Catholics started immigrating here in large numbers due to the Great Famine that they really took opposition to abortion to heart; this is when anti-abortion legislation started to really accelerate until 1900, when it was effectively illegal everywhere.
And even still, they still didn’t oppose it on “ethical” grounds until the late 1970’s, and early 1980’s. It’s likely they wouldn’t care if men were in charge of the decision-making process with regards to it, but nowadays they’ve propagandized their rank-in-file that this would likely never work (genie is out of the bottle), and it would be so obvious that they can’t do it anymore. So, illegality it is! In the end, I of course agree that’s their goal, but it didn’t start that way.