Did they not realize that the womens rights that the left have fought for also included conservative women?
"I never thought the leapords would eat MY face" says member of the Leapords Eating Peoples Faces party
"Because I had never viewed [IVF] as wrong..." is not a justification. I rarely swear, but from the bottom of my heart fuck the people of any religion or political ideology who believe they have some special pipeline to absolute truth. And an extra helping if they believe that gives them the right to legislate their beliefs onto everyone else.
Honestly I don't think one can be against abortion and for IVF without doing a whole bunch of mental gymnastics.
How can you ban "aborting" embryos that are in the womb but support IVF which results in way more "aborted" embryos.
It's either be against both or support both.
How can you ban “aborting” embryos that are in the womb but support IVF which results in way more “aborted” embryos.
The exact way they are doing here: insist that they're somehow different and avoid thinking about the logical result of their beliefs in order to escape cognitive dissonance.
You may be overestimating how familiar they are with the specifics of IVF. It could be perceived as simply as "IVF means more babies, which is good, because I want babies. But abortion means less babies, which is bad."
If those people like that perception, they will resist or deny any further detail that would jeopardize those perceptions to remain willfully ignorant, especially if they have utilized IVF themselves. The cognitive dissonance would be too strong otherwise.
Feels like an old variant on the trolley problem.
I'd guess their view is something like, with an abortion, if you don't, there's a baby, but with an unimplanted embryo, if you do nothing there's no baby. Essentially absolving people for not taking an action, even though the outcome is the same as those they condemn when an action is taken in a similar situation. But it's also weird and telling how they're now arguing that just having more babies be born is some kind of implicit positive.
They don't see mental gymnastics as a problem in my experience. They make all these rules for how everyone should live and then naturally it sucks if you actually comply 100%, so they find ways to make the things they want ok (usually only for them though). They want babies, so actually it's totally fine to dispose of unused embryos. See also: modesty standards, gender roles, social programs, and so on.
One of the fascinating aspects of modern politics is how rapidly the malice shifts. It has to, given the rapid advances science offers to society. 20 years ago, IVF, abortion, and contraceptives were very visibly on the chopping block due to republicans… republicanning. Nowadays they’re broadly accepted.
The accelerating shifts in social pressures have created a sort of compartmentalization of bigotry in new voters while older voters hate just the same as they ever have, plus a few new things they picked up along the way. Tom Parker, 72, fulfilled one aspect of his ancient bigotry. Despite everyone talking about it constantly, the new bigots barely recognize the old bigots for what they are. It’d be more interesting if their actions weren’t killing people.
These are the very same people who also get abortions but insist that their circumstances are somehow different.
This can be reposted a thousand times and it would never be too much
One of the greatest blog posts of all time.
You can't believe that a fertilized egg is a human being and also do IVF. Because typically 15 harvested eggs will lead to 12 fertilized eggs will end up with a few viable eggs which will end up with one pregnancy (if you're lucky). That's 11 murdered "children" by their definition.
They want to have their cake and eat it too.
Man wait till they learn about masturbation…
Dude shut the fuck up... seriously... don't give them ideas lol! Pry this dick from my cold dead sticky hands
Hard "it effects me, so now it's a problem." energy here
The "I never thought they'd come for me" crowd appears to have fucked around and, subsequently, found out.
Too bad these conservative Christian women will be flatly ignored by the conservative Christian men in charge:
1 Timothy 2
11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.
12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
At my last job, my manager was a conservative white Karen. She invited my wife and I over for dinner, and I'm guessing he was not prepared for me to be a person of color in a mixed marriage. And the dude has some real conservative opinions that she agreed with half the time, and the other half, clearly looked uncomfortable and refused to confront it.
Where my wife and I go at it all the time with conflicting views and find a middle ground.
And it makes me wonder why more conservative women aren't being more Karen-like against their husband. I mean, I know why, but still.
How long until they realize they can’t square the circle of being pro IVF and still believe life begins and conception?
I guess being consistent was never a worry for conservatives in the first place anyway.
If it's God's will the woman who didn't want to be pregnant got pregnant, then it's also God's will the one who wanted to get pregnant couldn't.
Leopard eating faces?
Say it ain't so!
and then they came for me...
"When we supported the face eating leopards to eat peoples' faces, we didn't think it would be our faces!"
Oops, be careful, you might end up admitting your stance on abortion is ridiculous.
The stance is "Making more white babies is good" / "Making more rich babies is good".
IVF is outrageously expensive. It's exclusively for the segment of the population that's got $50k to spend up front on having a kid.
The stance, "a fertilized egg is a perosn."
Until a cop shoots a pregnant woman in the stomach or an ICE agent shoves a pregnant woman onto the ground or an IDF soldier runs over a wounded pregnant woman with a bulldozer
The problem isn't with fertilized eggs nearly so much as who qualifies as a "person".
Either:
Embryos are people and they should never be destroyed, so IVF and abortion should be illegal.
OR
Embryos are not people and your right to choose what happens to your body is paramount. Therefore, abortions and IVF should be legal.
Which is it?
Neither. IVF is just like abortion...when they do it, it's OK because they had a good reason. When someone else does it, it's because they're going against God's will and deserve to be judged by both their neighbors and the government.
So it is almost like those women have a right to do what they want to do to their bodies.
They should defend it at the poles along with the right to keep all their medical issues between them and their doctors.
The best way for them to do that would be to stop voting for conservatives.
The best way for conservatives to drive forth a common sense conservative agenda is by voting for the Democrats!
They almost did it after they lost to Obama again in 2012 iirc. The Republican leadership put out a report that the GOP should soften it's views on immigration reform and court Latino voters. And then the Tea Party crazies took over.
Hey, they’re welcome to involve their church in their medical care. They just don’t get to force their church into everyone else’s.
(and: it’s “polls”)
I too would like to see conservative women defending women's rights at the poles.
It's a great way to get pregnant without having sex!
Why can't she just adopt?
Doesnt matter since conservative white women arent allowed to speak anyway
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