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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're missing the point. If you conflate abortion and murder, you're either being willfully ignorant or exceedingly simple. Just because some people equate two things, doesn't make them the same in reality. Whether you like it or not they are different, and applying the same standards to them makes no sense.

Your argument is like saying "Advil and heroin are both pain relieving drugs, so the law should apply equally." They are not the same, and we should not treat them the same, even if some people mistakenly equate them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We have laws that regulate abortion, alcohol, etc already. I said nothing about "why have laws?" in any part of my argument. I said banning abortion will not reduce abortions, much less stop them. That statement is a proven fact.

You and others seem to be applying my belief that abortion should not be illegal to all other laws, which is not the case. That is my opinion on a singular issue. I never stated nor implied other laws shouldn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

You can equate the two, but they're not functionally the same in reality. There is statistical evidence that banning abortion does not work and in fact has the opposite effect, so swapping the words makes no sense. A better comparison would be Prohibition in the US in the 1920s - banning alcohol didn't stop the production or use of it, it just made it exceedingly dangerous, lots of people got sick, went blind, and died from homemade liquor that contained too much methanol.

If you truly care about the life of the child at conception and after its birth, you'd choose the option where there is never an unwanted or accidental pregnancy. Most unwanted pregnancies result in children suffering abuse, entering the foster system, and eventually aging out without ever having a permanent or stable family. Many of these kids live a life where they've NEVER been loved.

There are nearly 400,000 children in the foster system in the US right now and the number grows every day. There's no one to adopt these babies. Forcing women to have children does not work. No child should ever be unwanted, every child deserves loving parents. This is the world that abortion bans create.

Nobody is pro-abortion. Nobody likes or wants women to have abortions, especially the women getting the procedure...it is NOT pleasant. Pro-choice supporters would be thrilled if there's never another abortion again, as long there were no unwanted pregnancies.

The best, statistically proven method to prevent abortions is education and easy access to contraception. Full stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lmao, fair enough!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why the fuck you roasting a turkey upside down? You want nice crispy golden skin on the back and gooey white skin on the actual edible parts?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (30 children)

Banning abortion doesn't stop abortion, it just shifts it to a black market where women are far more likely to die.

What does demonstrably reduce abortion to effectively insignificant levels is better sex education and easy access to contraceptives.

Prohibition has never worked. Education always has.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean we use US customary and metric too, but US customary measurements aren't always the same as Imperial.

1 US pint = 16 US fluid ounces

1 British pint = 20 British fluid ounces

But wait!

1 British pint = 19.2 US fluid ounces

Would you like to know more? Probably not, but anyways: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
  1. "Over one billion" - the current number is around 1.1 billion, so if my napkin math is correct that's 1,100,000 x 0.66 = 726,000. Close enough for the girls I go with.

  2. If you've ever learned a foreign language, especially in primary school, one of the first things you learn are nursery rhymes. I remember my French professor singing Frère Jacques to the class on day one of college.

  3. Pretty much every country in Central and South America and a few islands in the Caribbean speak Spanish. They don't speak the same Spanish dialect as Spain, nor do they generally speak the same dialect as countries that border them. Languages evolve, and language alone doesn't typically inform things like nursery rhymes, culture does.

So congratulations, you're ignorant in three different languages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It always knows.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This is the way. The butts sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Businesses don't have the power to do that if we collectively tell them no. But that being said, how DO you split up a 10-day week keeping the same basic ratio of "weekend" days?

Three weekdays, followed by a single "weekend" day or mid-week break, then four weekdays followed by a two-day weekend?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, was looking for an alternative because Sync wouldn't let me upload the image directly.

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