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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
1. This is the same as Sanctorum, Romney, etc. And a striking number of others.
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:07 PM
Oct 2012

There is a point of logic that makes this seem like quite sane to believers, but without a shred of empathy for women who they do not know and will never know. If a woman wants to end the pregnancy, they call her mentally ill.

The issue is responsibility. Those who are pontificating, refuse to take any responsibility for forcing others to live lives they themselves would not submit to living. Even if they did, their right to order anything ends at their own bodies, not anyone else's.

That disconnection is where the hypocrisy, oppression and insanity comes from. They have no right to order the destiny and personal lives of others. NONE.

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
2. Any mourdock comments i make today I am attaching the meme...i'm hoping we can get it onto
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:08 PM
Oct 2012

google images. :0)

This guy is certainly a nutjob. that's for sure.




DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
3. I just don't think some middle-aged man in indiana should choose for every woman what she can do
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:43 PM
Oct 2012

none of his business.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
4. These matters, like same sex marriage, are none of most people's business.
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:54 PM
Oct 2012

The people that fall into this groups seeking to legislate what other people can do with their own bodies, because that is this is, have too much time on their hands.

They have no real issues to complain of or don't know what's going wrong in their own lives, so they seek to control people they never even met and never will over some abstract idea that doesn't affect them at all.

They won't bear the cost of these laws, not financially, socially, physically or mentally. It's just cheap thrills from their sense of entitlement to rule others. And it's evil.

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
5. gay marriage is similar to me: do I have the right to decide who can sit with you on your death bed?
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:07 PM
Oct 2012

I say that to my straight friends who are too religious to vote for gay marriage. And point out that my partner would not be allowed into my hospital room in many states because they don't accept our domestic partnership. and then i ask them, don't I have the right to sit with him on my deathbed? On your deathbed would it be right to ask, "Who do you want to sit with you in the end?" and then tell them, "No, sorry, I don't agree with that choice. Pick someone else."

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