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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

What the hell, why don't they just cut to the chase and put every woman of childbearing age in jail. Pretty sure that's what they really want.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

So should women be considered child murderers when they ovulate and don't get pregnant?

Fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So no more omelettes for her?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Cool, are you going to pay child support for them?

Oh, they're only babies when it comes to diminishing women's rights? Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I wonder if Haley is vegan. She seems willing to expand the definition of what is a life and what is sacred. Which is more alive, an adult cow or a single cell human embryo? Are either acceptable to eat? Why or why not?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Sheer insanity.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

everything is a fucking baby nowadays. quick hypothetical: you're in a burning building, in that building is a single two year old, and a cooler with 10,000 fertilized embryos in it. You can only grab one. Do you rescue the two year old, or 10,000 "babies"? If one embryo = one child then it's pretty obvious what the right decision is, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just throw the 2 year old in the cooler and run. That should protect them from the fire right?

:P

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If you run out with 51% of the 2 year old, that still counts as a baby right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Can I tell you about the ship of Theseus?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Some idiot will be asking to tell you about the ship of Theseus any minute now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

you need the torso and at least 2 limbs before they'll let you exchange it for a new one

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

I can't believe they're allowing people to freeze their babies, leaving them alone in freezers with strangers for only god knows how long. I'm worried that some sick democrat might sneak in and give them a free lunch!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for all the embryo and ovulation memes on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago

🎵🎶every sperm is sacred🎵🎶

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Republicans in a race to the bottom to figure out who can say the stupidest thing possible. Between this and Jewish space lasers, I think the competition is heating up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In a way it is a race to the "bottom" they're pushing the definition of life to be the earliest point possible to make abortion absolutely impossible at any point.

Just remember: It'S a StAtEs RiGhTs IsSuE!! (Until they want more, then they lie about that too.)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just realized, why isn’t Israel using the space lasers to level Gaza?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Because they're the most moral army in the world. :-/

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Embryos can be whatever you want to you, miss Haley, but the rest of us live in reality. I can say that embryos are, to me, 8 story crustaceans from the paleolithic era. Doesn't necessarily make 'em so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Well it was about this time that I noticed the embryo was actually an 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the Protozoic era. It was the Loch Ness monster! I said "Damn it Monster, get off my lawn! I ain't given you no Tree Fiddy."

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