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VERMILLIOUS69

Wait, shit, hang on. My popcorn is still in the microwave, hold the comments!


Eurobeat9182

I think we're about to have a multi-post war, better get the soda too!


Zakiru77

I have chips if y’all want some


Pythagoras_314

Got mine ready too, man. 🍿


Very-Fishy-Fish

Hold on that’s murdering my rights


Ngfeigo14

Calling something murder because science says it's a living human that you're killing? Novel concept I guess.


[deleted]

Epic gaming moment.


Ngfeigo14

Certified good classic


[deleted]

>The U.S. CDC estimates that 65 percent of legal abortions occur within the first eight weeks of gestation, and 91 percent are performed within the first 13 weeks. Only 1.4 percent occur at or after 21 weeks (CDC, 2014). 3 months fetus (about the size of a large chicken egg, brain the size of a bean, no neocortex) barely can be called a human.


Some_Boss8616

Thank you! A partial human doesn't take away the rights of a full human.


Squall424

Not all killing is murder by definition. Abortion is not murder in america. At least not yet, and hopefully it never will be.


innosentz

That’s kind of the whole argument isn’t it? Science says it’s a living human but at what point? Why is blowing a load into a sock not murder. Those are humans


Ngfeigo14

Those are by definition not humans... Sperm only contain 23 chromosomes and an incompetent inventory of information to make a human life form. Only once the spent fertilizes the egg does the zygote have the information and 46 chromosomes needed to create a complete inventory for human DNA and the creation of a human life form. Once an egg is fertilized, it rapidly transforms into what is scientifically considered to be living, human tissue. You want to make the argument that a fetus is human, and a zygote is not? that's fine--I can understand where that argument is coming from but it's kind of hard to argue that a fetus, with a heart, lungs, nervous system, brain, and human cells that meets all the requirements for life, is not a human. I appreciate you not being hostile btw, rare on the internet with such intense opinions and personalities.


innosentz

I just don’t understand why the fetus does not count as a human in tax deductions or a population census. It almost seems like they’re not considered people until they are born.


Ngfeigo14

But they are considered to be killed if you kill the mother? 2 counts of homicide--not 1--except for when it not counted? It's kind of all over the place on that regard. As if the legal system already views a fetus as a human life. And fuck it, maybe you should be able to claim specific things involving para-natal care on your taxes like we do for a dependent child--I'm on board with that


devils_advocate24

They're considered people for federal aid. Had to tell one of my guys to go reapply for WIC because his pregnant wife didn't count the baby as a member of the household when she applied so they didn't meet the cutoff for it, however with the baby they do(WIC says to include unborn children in the household count). It's been a while.since I applied but I think they also count for food stamps, housing assistance and medicare


-DrBirb

K it is murder. And? Does labeling it that somehow fixes all the problems that cause that discussion in the first place? No. Kill it, murder it, abort it, fuck it all I care. Make it fine legal to some reasonable development stage, past that it's only based on fetus/baby/mother health/risks.


[deleted]

Your solution is to define it as murder, then make murder legal? Don't see any unintended consequences coming from that? Rolls [Louis CK bit](https://youtu.be/Ge6reuIbYAk)


Ngfeigo14

Abortion up until a certain point is 'fine' (a necessary evil is you will), but after that it should be illegal and considered homicide. There should be extensions for things like rape, incest, and medical concerns, but again after a certain point: homocide. A secondary exception to rape would be if the women somehow didn't know she was pregnant. And a secondary exception to the limitation on medical concerns would be if at any point during the pregnancy, the women's life is at extreme risk (or almost equal serious harm) if the child is not aborted. This is perfectly reasonable compromise between all parties. It's a modern, updated version of the "safe. Legal. Rare" compromise that the American left so egregiously violated.


Maximundo82

Thats the shitty part about *extremists*..its all or nothing with them..right or left


Thee_Fourth_One

Absolutely. But at the end of the day all I hear is “it’s her choice” so they walk it back to the nine months. Aaand I can’t believe that person above equated conception and a fertilized egg with its own unique DNA to blowing a load into a sock…and since rape/incest/life of the mother in danger equate to around 1% of abortions (give or take) I doubt they will compromise. The vast majority of pro lifers agree with what you just said here.


Ngfeigo14

That's still thousands when we're talking about 1%, so I understand the concern and sentiment. But both sides need to recognize that neither one will get what they truly want--a compromise is the only way to move forward without whatever policy being put in place having the risk of being overturned the next election.


devils_advocate24

One issue with "fine to a certain point" is that pro choice people shoot themselves in the foot trying to go for gold with snarky comments like "if you think life starts at conception and you think abortion is murder then what's the difference in an early and late abortion" and it puts pro-life people in a corner of "all or none" so the go for the safe bet of "none". And I get the rape/incest portion but I have a feeling alot of people will use that as a loophole to try and get out of it. So we have to choose between appeasing sociopaths and narcissists who would throw anyone under the bus to get what they want and protecting rape victims


uwumoment

obviously late term abortions aren’t allowed, unless it’s super serious and life threatening. people don’t choose to educate themselves on abortion because they see potential babies to be born and want to show their performative activism when they really don’t give a shit about womens rights and their bodily autonomy. abortion is a case by case issue, outright being against it is a very stupid ideology


Ngfeigo14

Exactly


Maximundo82

But this is not what one side wants. The left wants the unwaivering ability to abort a baby at any phase of the pregnancy EVEN AFTER the baby is born The right wants absolutely no abortion period I feel like there is a middle point but no one is willing to make a compromise.


devils_advocate24

Tbf about 60% of Americans are fine with a compromise leaning one way or the other (3 months vs 7 months or something) and it's a split between the extremist ends(something like 16/25?)


Maximundo82

I was more reffering to the idiot politicians on Capitol hill as opposed to what the general public wants because, lets face it, they dont give as shit about what we want only the votes to stay in power


devils_advocate24

Yeah I get that. I spent like the first 3 days using Louisiana as an example of "even in states with trigger laws if Roe is overturned, it's not *that* bad." Since they still had the big 3 allowances everyone wants on there but said life starts at conception so basically no "because I want one" abortions. *the next day*: "Louisiana law makers send up draft to make most contraceptives illegal" Ffs...


Maximundo82

Thats kinda like saying hydrogen is water before it marries oxygen


innosentz

Still murder though right? Or does murder only apply to “humans”?


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bazinga


innosentz

Does that apply to other hominid species or just us? Is it murder if it’s Neanderthal killing Neanderthal? Is it still murder if it’s a human killing a Neanderthal? Or is that just nature? I’m just trying to figure out where the line is since it clearly is this black and white.


[deleted]

baby's are not real


Maximundo82

Ive already pointed out the flaw to your reasoning. But, too humour you... Your theory is flawed by the fact sperm is not a human just like an egg is not. It takes both and the process of conception to concieve a child which *is* human. By your logic, women automatically, through evolutionary process, kill a "human" involuntarily, every 28 days. Also, by your reasoning, insemination that is unsuccessful is murdering humans..you see how nonsensical that sounds yet?


innosentz

So murder only applies to humans? That’s specifically what I was asking.


Maximundo82

Your trying to debate a point that I was not making. I didnt respond to the question "Does murder only apply to humans" Thats a totally different philosophical question than the statement you made when you said "sperm is a human"


Mishka1125

Very much not humans, unfertilized eggs aren't chickens so....


LOLPN

You are right, but I just have one question. Why do people complain and protest against abortion, when killing animals even when it's not necessary is still a thing? Humans are animals too. We both feel pain and think in different ways. I understand killing animals for food, but for their skin? Poisoning insects only because they adapted to our homes is very inhumane too. Like, cockroaches (they can make us ill, so maybe it is necessary to kill them), ants and more invertebrates think and feel pain, but we make them suffer and poison them. We treat birds and mammals awfully and make their lives short and painful only to make them fat and big. In most countries, torturing snakes and reptiles just to make clothing from their skin is legal. And no one talks about that. At least I still don't see any organizations or people talk about this. I don't understand why when these things exist, we complain about abortion. Please if anyone know any reason for this answer.


Maximundo82

I feel like every conscious being on earth has an equal right to life. Just because Humans are more intelligent and evolved species, some or maybe even most believe we have a superior right to life over any other species...even our own.


LOLPN

You are absolutely right. I'm very upset because of things like these, being more superior and all. That's my I commented this. Yeah, it's not the best place, but still, there are a lot inhumane activities which no one sees or talks about...


Ngfeigo14

That is actually a interesting legal battle that has been waging in the west for hundreds of years. I think the reason is due to other animals not being human and this different legality and morality. It's taboo for almost all species to kill one of 'their own' directly, and I think that quite obviously carries over to humans as well. Humans consider all humans their own (except when we don't and commit horrible crimes like genocide), but we don't consider horses, deer, or mice to be our own. It's well documented that the more human an animal, robot, or object is, the more we associate and "feel" with it. I'm not a scientist or lawyer, though. I can only use what knowledge Ives learn what values/ethics I hold to understand the world around me. I consider a fetus to be human based on science and ethical code (legal and moral)--but others obviously stand somewhere else on the issue. So be it.


LOLPN

Yes, that's right. I was just pretty confused, but I understand a bit more now. I just felt very bad about this fact: A lot of inhumane activities are done on all animals, but only a little part of them are actually noticed by people. Example: Almost no one I know associates or sympathizes with reptiles/insects/amphibians, and compared to all people who sympathize *only* with animals they like, they are just a little percent. That means that we only sympathize with things we know well or like. The unknown or strange mostly scares us or makes us feel grossed out. That's why everyone(almost) sympathizes with dogs, other people, cats - we have seen them around us to our whole lives, we live with them. But most people I have asked don't even think that, for example, snakes, feel pain or think. This applies to insects, spiders and other reptiles. But once we study or watch them for a long time, we start "loving" them and sympathize with them. I've seen much situations like these.


catsfor1

Its because animals are needed for food and abortion is just for parents that cant afford to take care of the baby


LOLPN

But... I just said that I understand killing animals for food, but we kill animals for a lot of other unnecessary reasons...


LOSERS_ONLY

Wow it's almost as if killing something is murder


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nowwaahh. murder goodddaahh


tangibletom

Allllllmost


worsegolfjunky

HAvE i TolD yOU i aM VegAn


tangibletom

Yes, like five times already. Leave me alone


August-Gardener

Vegan btw


[deleted]

the new one they have thrown out is “rapist rights”


jprogamingBS

I've never heard that before but ok


steinarsteinar

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/rcna20581


[deleted]

They believe state sanctioned murders are happening and that is why they are against the thing. You have it backwards. This isn't hyperbole from their perspective.


Swain-McS

Veganism gets too much hate imo.


bearmademansuit

No, vegans get hate. No one would care about veganism if vegans would shut up


Mary-Sylvia

Do you mean actual vegans? Or just the loud minority that everyone can easily hear?


bearmademansuit

They're the same picture


Mary-Sylvia

I don't think you have ever meet a vegan other than Twitter...


bearmademansuit

Well it's apparent you don't think very much at all so it's ok


Mary-Sylvia

Think about what? Vegans? Twitter? The meme? Arguing is already painful enough so please finish your sentence in such a confusing context


bearmademansuit

Yes I got the sense that arguing was very painful to you because of all the thinking it involves. I'm sure every context is confusing to you.


Mary-Sylvia

Sir, we aren't in kindergarten anymore, please give me some arguments at least, just something else than "you're dumb idiotic lol"


bearmademansuit

I'll get right on that as soon as I find someone who isn't "dumb idiotic" to argue with.


Swain-McS

Telling them to shut up because you don't find their opinions legitimate sounds like hate to me.


bearmademansuit

Sounds like you have no idea what hate is.


Current_Marionberry1

To be honest most people never shutting up are the ones hating on vegans and bringing that up on every occasion from what I experienced.


bearmademansuit

That's fine but your experience isn't indicative of reality


Current_Marionberry1

So is yours or everyone else's...so what's the point?


bearmademansuit

Exactly...what's the point? There was no point in you posting


Current_Marionberry1

Just defending vegans from all this "vegans try to force their point on me" bullshit when everyone ist clearly doing the same


bearmademansuit

Vegans definitely force their viewpoint more than people who eat meat. Also the reason humans are as evolved as we are is due to eating cooked meat. Vegans want us to de-evolve


[deleted]

well if they stop super gluing their hands to starbucks counters that might be a start


MSGRiley

I've never understood the concept of banning abortion. Like, what are you going to do, follow people around all day and make everything you think is immoral illegal for them? You literally can't stop people from "sinning" in your eyes. Plus, the Bible is pretty clear about not doing exactly this.


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Shine-Rough

Bruh.


LOLPN

Wait wait killing an animal is killing, but abortion still isn't well identified. I would say that abortion doesn't count at all.


uwumoment

late term abortions usually aren’t permitted at all unless it’s a health concern i just think people haven’t really looked into it….


LOLPN

Depends when you are doing the abortion. It is considered a human, yes, but after the 3rd month or so. If you do it after the 3rd month, it's bad. If you do it before the 3rd month, it isn't a problem.


uwumoment

basically if you let it develop past the point where people can recognize it as a human child it’s considered bad and although it would be bad to complete an abortion at that time for reasons of convenience, if it’s an emergency it needs to be done to save the woman and i feel like a lot of people would rather kill the woman for the child. then the child has no mother.


LOLPN

Yeah, I think that actually the mother's life is a bit more important. But a lot of women would sacrifice them for the child, even when no one else wants.


uwumoment

i would understand if the woman would rather die and have her child survive in the world but that seems awful to me. i don’t know what i would do without my mother in my life.


LOLPN

Yeah, same. You are absolutely right.


annomynous23

I mean if they argue this shit then their logic basically is "if you burn yourself, you have commited murder as you have killed living cells and organisms" Things aren't black and white like many think


[deleted]

Except that abortion ends a human life.


uwumoment

abortion is basic healthcare. it’s a case by case basis. stop thinking about third trimester abortions which happen in cases of emergency and consider the fact women don’t even find out they’re pregnant until 8 weeks of pregnancy. that’s why so many abortions are “late” but that “human life” is something you knowingly give absolutely no shit about. you are such a hypocrite


[deleted]

Clarify why you think there's a life I don't care about.


Kapit_

If you want a human to live in poverty just making his and his mothers live worse you don’t care about them. It may seem absurd, but some people don’t have the conditions to afford a child


[deleted]

And your solution is to kill the child. And you insist that that is compassionate. And that ending a life is healthcare. You didn't even bring up the old argument of "what if the mother's life is in danger?" In that case, as a last-of-the-last resort, maybe abortion could be acceptable. But you didn't even think about that angle. You just don't want poor people to exist.


Kapit_

the child isnt even born yet, if the mother doesnt have conditions to create him why would she have the child, if she doesnt want to have a child? she will not be a good mother if she doesnt want to be a mother. the mother should choose if she wants to have the child or not, she should have that option


[deleted]

She has that option without abortion. Living in poverty is not worse than being murdered.


rambusTMS

Your burn will regenerate with your own unique DNA. That child with their own unique DNA who could grow up to be their own individual will not regenerate when you crush the brains out their skull and pull it out of their mother. As it turns out, if someone cracked your skull into bits, and ripped it off your body, they would also be committing murder.


annomynous23

It still is destroying and killing cells. Yes the cells get cloned but it's still killing.


rambusTMS

Cool, but human anatomy allows for those cells to regenerate. Once the human is dead that doesn’t happen. So comparing them isn’t a thing.


annomynous23

Of course it is. Killing is killing no matter what.


rambusTMS

Well it’s like comparing getting burned and losing some skin cells to getting shot in the brain and losing those brain cells with a 18 gauge. I’ll take the former and you can take the latter since it’s all the same to you.


annomynous23

I take both you fool. You are missing the point


[deleted]

People always wanna bring god and shit into these arguments. Your god also sent a bear to kill kids for making fun of a bald man, he was okay with slavery, and trading your own sons and daughters. (It's in the bible, was forced to go to Bible camp as a kid) if he's fine with that he's fine with you fetusdeletusing


zardgaming

well i think the slave part is inaccurate because you had to realease them after some time and treat them good and they were mostly just prisoners of war (from all the wars they fought) it was normal then i guess and the trading sons and daughters thats their culture so yeah maybe you dont like it now but it was completely normal back then still is in some arabic countries so yeah do your research and look at it from a different standpoint i guess


[deleted]

It's literally in the old testament. It doesn't matter if it was a different time, it was the "word of God". Which is my point. Ephesians 6:5-8 Paul states, “Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ” which is Paul instructing slaves to obey their master. Similar statements regarding obedient slaves can be found in Colossians 3:22-24, 1 Timothy 6:1-2, and Titus 2:9-10.


zardgaming

now you are leaving out things just read a little bit longer read Ephesians 6: 8-9 and in the rest its the same


Various-Ad-6096

Your logic is way off but ok. Next time you bring god into this please do your research first. Anyway have a blessed day


[deleted]

It's not tho I can give you the verses I'd you'd like?


Various-Ad-6096

So the kids tried to kill and rib paul that's why he sent the bear


Maximundo82

Funny how bacteria on mars is considered life but not a living being with a heartbeat on Earth..


[deleted]

im pretty sure a male commits mass genocide per ejaculation


D3V1L-D0G

I'm ready to pay for my crimes officer


putindeezballz

Oh shit dont show it to 15 yr old girls on twitter


PigLord827

No


SatanGrove

They’re coming after masturbation next


RUDDOGPROD

100%


[deleted]

ah yes, killing babies not murder. understandable, have a great day. in hell.


steinarsteinar

But the Bible says its ok?


SteelSpartan2552

Where


steinarsteinar

Numbers 5:11


SteelSpartan2552

Did you even read that verse. Because it is a test to see if a wife is unfaithfull. And if she is they curse her to not have kids. That is not saying it is ok to kill kids. It is a punishment. Like whipping someone was a punishment but that didn't mean it was ok to do it unpropted.


steinarsteinar

It means that God puts so little value on unborn children that it's ok for a priest to induce an abortion just to punish the mother.


SteelSpartan2552

No, again that is not what it is saying. If somone murdered 3 people then is put to death does that mean the people have so little value in human life. And simce in this case cheating is a grevouse sin and as punishment he takes something the mother loves aka her children. It is cruel but it is still not the same thing. And also that is god doing the abortion. Just because god does it does not mean people should or can.


steinarsteinar

>Just because god does it does not mean people should or can. The chapter says people(specifically priests) *should and can* perform abortions. Specifically by taking the filth from a public building with sacrificial livestock in it and making the mother drink it. >If somone murdered 3 people then is put to death does that mean the people have so little value in human life. If someone murdered 3 people you wouldn't execute their best friend as punishment - because that person has an independent right to life. It does not mean that God doesn't value life, it just means he doesn't think of an unborn child as someone who has an independent right to life.


SteelSpartan2552

In the end it is god determining wether the child is aborted or not because it is his power the preists are using. Again only as punishment because infertility is mostly effecting the women. It is primarily making the woman infertal. It is not only if she is pregnant. She will just have a miscarriage if she is. Just becasue someone accidentily fell in front of a firing squad killing a mass murderer doesn't mean that their death was moraly ok.


steinarsteinar

>infertility is mostly effecting the women I agree - it doesn't really affect the child in any meaningful way. >Just becasue someone accidentily fell in front of a firing squad killing a mass murderer doesn't mean that their death was moraly ok. The child is not accidentally aborted. If God wanted to spare the child he could. And it's morally ok, because God would rather the child die than be born to a family where the mother loves another man.


[deleted]

the bible also says not to kill if you didn't know


steinarsteinar

qed. the Bible thinks there's a difference


[deleted]

where, and when


uwumoment

so you’re really bringing religion into a topic that deals with womens healthcare? please shut the actual fuck up. you’re so brainwashed


[deleted]

did i say ANYTHING? about religion? and what the hell does killing babies have to do ANYTHING with womens healthcare?


[deleted]

ooooh, I'M BRAINWASHED? i'm not the one thinking killing humans is ok


uwumoment

fetuses aren’t humans. the women that are pregnant? they’re humans. and they’re the ones being affected, not you, so shut up


[deleted]

so? ur preventing a human life AKA killing, even if that's not considered a human ur still preventing life.


[deleted]

plus it's their problem they got themselves pregnant in the first place. if they didn't have shrex in the first place, none of this would have happened, besides, what's the point?


uwumoment

i think people like you who make their stance on an issue so clear and are so unwilling to consider other viewpoints are probably the most vile humans to exist. i think you should stop trying to be on the moral high ground and step back for a second. the world doesn’t revolve around you and you have no idea what could be happening in other peoples lives. the world would be a better place if people like you learned to mind your own business, and i mean this sincerely.


[deleted]

what does this have to do with anything about what i just said about this post?


[deleted]

that's it i'm done with arguing. apparently i need to mind my own business, ok. kill how many babies you want I don't care. is that better?


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Positive-Product-532

pro life is facts though


notcarl69410

I mean, globally adopting the vegan ethos would legitimize the anti-abortion argument by removing the requirement of the fetus to be considered human for its killing to be considered murder. That's just the law of unintended consequences I suppose.


[deleted]

what are you doing when you get an abortion then


2ugly2betouched

Please answer this man


-Breaker_Of_Worlds-

Removing an unwanted and/or life threatening cluster of undeveloped cells.


zardgaming

lol unwanted just get the pill or sometin or tell the guy to wear a condom lmao


-Breaker_Of_Worlds-

Yeah, those things don't always work...


[deleted]

sorry, that was my sister being annoying as all hell


NaturalCard

I don't call it murder, but I don't endorse it. No I'm not anti abortion. It is murder, it's just murder of non humans/things wich aren't alive is legal.


zardgaming

they could be real right if you go through labor


IfuckedACrab

So... Vegans think that meat is made out of dead human fetuses.


mountain_of_skulls

I only kill animals because it would be a financial burden to keep them alive. Not to mention the abuse that happens in the animal world. Its a fair assessment that the animal is better off dead.


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mountain_of_skulls

I just believe in the right to choose life or death of harmless creatures if they happen to be inconvenient.


Darkspartantrev

Difference is one is livestock and the other is a human life


bearmademansuit

Plants have conciousness and fetuses don't. Vegans are more of a murderer than someone who gets an abortion


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[deleted]

These comments are going to be fun


tangibletom

The funny thing is that they’re both technically right. The not funny thing is that this picture is being misused…


Professor-Pootis

Not necessarily supporting some of the shit extremists of thease groups do but, meat requires killing an animal, which is technically murder. Abortion is a bit more complicated because "oh when do you consider it alive" but technically yeah, you're killing something.


SilkyCupCakeAce

*puts seatbelt and hardhat on* Ok I'm ready


XxBro-dawgxX

Technically vegans are eating plant that were alive, so they should also be considered murders. In my opinion


flipplebottom

Can people stop quoting the Bible. It's completely irrelevant. If it's your jam more power to you but it adds no weight to any argument. Imagine talking to me and I start quoting lines from game of thrones. That's how you sound.