Pastor Barnhart explains right-wing anti-abortion politics.

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That's something even our Catholic bishops opposed, arguing that "while the primary victim of an abortion is always the unborn child, the mother is very often a secondary one and punishing her by the law would be only cruelty".
Yes, that's an official opinion by Polish Catholic bishops' congregation about a law proposed a few years ago by some citizen group. Not a pro-choice bunch they are, by any means, but even they saw a boundary here.

I guess the only viable option would be to have the baby until full term and hand it over for adoption.
A punishment for promiscuity?
I think I will buy shares in "the morning after pill".

Exaggeration. Mississippi’s trigger law still allows abortion under special circumstances.

I thought this interesting because it provides some historical background - especially the statement given by Sarah Weddington to the Supreme Court hearing in 1972 (at 01:05):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-61356531

Why should any woman have lesser constitutional rights to bodily autonomy than a man?
A man is 100% responsible for an unwanted pregnancy - but this results in no change to his constitutional rights to bodily autonomy.

Women are to be treated differently constitutionally just because they are able to carry a child.
But men are not treated differently for being the only cause of that.

https://www.healthline.com/health/trans ... t-pregnant

Transphobia is against the rules M-Mister Cornflake, um, sir.

Because there are many backwards-thinking people in positions of power who seem to believe having a penis gives someone the authority to determine the rights of those who do not have penises.

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It's Not An Exaggeration that Mitch McConnell Said That Abortion May Be Banned Nationwide
By Legislation if the Republicans Gain Mastery of the Political Rule Or 'Dictatorship'; However
That May Turn Out; Even Charging All Women in the United States With Capital Murder
if they Use Their Current Constitutional Right to Abortion if Roe Versus Wade

Is Overturned So in This Case, There May Be No Where for the Little Girl
Violently Raped By Her Big Daddy In Her Home to Escape What Feels Like

Evil Spawn Growing Within

As Sure The Cruel Republican
Rule Could Do Their Best to Outlaw
The Abortion Pill For 'The Day After'
The Cruel And Very Violent Rape by

Big Daddy too...

i Suppose One Could Suggest
That Little Girl's Sanctity of Breathing

LIFE DOESN'T COUNT; LIKE IT ALREADY
DOESN'T COUNT FOR LITTLE GIRLS WHO
ARE VIOLENTLY RAPED BY BIG DADDY'S NOW;

i Suppose One Could Suggest in The Catholic Church
i Visit as only An Anthropology Participant Observer, Among
Other Churches, only to Test The Waters of Real Good and Evil

(And Dance and Sing in Communion of Love Beyond Just Bread and Wine)

Within Those Doors; Yes, During the Peak of a Deadly Pandemic When
Social Distancing And Masks Were not Enforced in Every Mass to Protect

Both the Vulnerable And The Ignorant of Conspiracy Theories That Said the
Pandemic Was Planned and Not Even Real And Just Staged on TV With Refrigerator

Boxes With
no Real
Corpses

As Still Folks Insist
Here in 'Trump Town USA' (one of many)
Close to A Million Folks Didn't Really
Succumb to A Deadly Pandemic Now;

Yep, so Much for the Sanctity of Breathing
Life for the Vulnerable to A Pandemic and

Then There is the Sheriff of the County Who Promotes

on TV The Shooting of Any Intruder into A Home Without
Any Questions Asked; Yes the Shooting of them Dead With
Even Lessons to Improve Aim; Just to Save the Sheriff's Office

And County

Money and to Hell

With the Sanctity of
Breathing Life if it is
A Person Considered A Foe...

And That Person Calls Their Self
A Christian too As Does the Bishop of the

Diocese That Left-Off the Protection for the Sanctity
of Breathing Life Among the Most Vulnerable of

Congregants

He Is Responsible

For as So-Called Loving
Bishop With A Shepard's Hook

Or Fork Depending on What Robe He Wears;

Anyway, It's Easy to Lose Respect for Hypocrites

Who Turn the Other Cheek And Lie About What they

Insist They BeLiVE iN;

And True Again, 66 Percent

of the General Public, Including
The Voting Public Are Against the

Over Turning of Roe Versus Wade; And
The Percentage Will Likely Be Even Higher

For A National Ban on Abortion At the Hands of
Republican Rule and or 'Dictatorship' Later, if that's

What Democracy Comes to Next; True, Not Everyone Was

For Obamacare in that Election Either; Where We Saw the Sacrifice

Bringing That Care to Others Brought in Loss of Democratic Representation...

Yep, Considering the
Potential Republican
Rule And Potential
Dictatorship of This

'Alternate UniVerse Scenario;'

Now, Perhaps the Democrats Will
Finally Have A Common Wedge Issue

to Form A Religion of Their Own Based on Freedom;

Yep, the Right to the Sanctity of Breathing Life, Liberty and

THE PURSUIT
OF HAPPINESS
FOR ALL WITH LEAST HARM...

DARKNESS BRINGS LiGHT, LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT;

BUSH BROUGHT OBAMACARE TO LIFE; PERHAPS ALITO WILL BRING

FREEDOM TO
RING IN LIGHT

OUT OF THE
DARKNESS AND
IGNORANCE OF HIS

ACTIONS NEXT FOR REAL...

OTHER THAN THAT HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY...

i Was There When the Blue Lights Went off in the

Hospital Where All the Congenital Anomalies of my Son

Were Missed in the Ultrasound And He Got to Suffer For 51

Days With Only Pain And Never A Smile in Life; i Was There When

The Blue Lights Went Off For the Code Blue When my Wife Had a Life Threatening

Seizure And She Was Transported to an
Emergency Caesarean Section; i Was there

When i Prayed to God She Would Be Okay;

As i Had Loved Her For What Seemed Like Forever then;

i Had A Son Who Wasn't Born to Be Able to Breathe; Who Wasn't
Born with an Immune System That Worked; Who Wasn't Born

With Blood Vessels to Even Move

The Blood to His Heart

True He Had An Extra
Thumb to Make 6 And Other Issues

Yet That Was the Least of His

HeLL ON EartH For 51 Days

So His Misery and Suffering Could Be
Extended That Way until i Finally Held

Him in His Last Heart Beat as He Never Had

the Opportunity

to Breathe

Alone At All;

A Woman Usually Will
Give/Trade Her Life for
A Child In This Situation;

i Am Quite Sure my Wife

Would Have Died For Her Child;

Yet She Was Spared That Fate and

My Child 'only' Got to Suffer in Misery

For 51 Days; So Much For Mercy, So Much For Mercy,

So Much For Mercy As my Mother Lasted 8 Days With
No Food and Drink (Usually It's Only 3, if One Does Not
Have the Strength of a Loving HeART Like My Mother's to Last)

Slowly,

Slowly,

Slowly,

Slowly,

Slowly,

Slowly,

Slowy,

Slowly,

Starving
Thirsting

To Death As
We Played Her
Favorite Song
'Time' By the Alan

Parson's Project

At Death-Bed-Side

Going the Most
Natural Way to Go
Offered to Her; Yet Our

Beloved Cat Got the 'Royal Treatment'

of Mercy as He Didn't Even Have to Suffer

A Shot For A Sudden Death; We Used the Most
Humane Method Possible For Anesthesia For

Him to Not
to Be Aware

of Any More Suffering At All...

And What Did the Catholic Church Have
to Say About the Whole Ordeal As my Son
Suffered; the Deacon Called And Insisted that

(i Hadn't Been to Catholic Church For 7 Years Then;
Someone Told The Church What We Were Enduring then)

He Come Baptize The Child on June 4th of 1997, Then,

When my Child Was Born As He Said he Had the Authority

to Baptist that Child So He Wouldn't Be Trapped in 'Limbo' A Place

Between Heaven
And Hell After
Death or

Even Go To Hell FOREVER
As He Had the Authority
to Re-Direct A Child's Path

to Heaven After Birth; Meanwhile,

my Child Suffered As the Deacon Had NO Authority

to Heal the Sanctity of Breathing Life; Only Empty
Ignorant Threats of Limbo And Hell then for A Child

If His Authority Was Allowed As Dictated Then; YET, IF

He Had Any Real (And Those Like Him) Mercy A Child Would Get

More Mercy A Mother Would Get More Mercy than A Beloved Cat...

ANYWAY, i MADE IT 'CRYSTAL BALL CLEAR' TO HIM HE HAD NO AUTHORITY

OVER ANY SOUL...

Strange How

Humans Progress

Yet Still Insist in Living

in A Dark Age of Ignorance;
Responsible For So Much Harm,
Rape, Maiming, And Needless Killing STiLL

For the
Sanctity
of Breathing Life Now...

Anyway i Don't Bother Getting
To Church Before the Homily; i Get
to Still Study the Priest's Opinion on the
Mass Readings Each Week; i've Lost almost All

Respect for the 'Institution' of the Catholic Church;

Yet i will Never Lose Respect for Love When it is True

And Real

And

ACTUALLY

HUMANE NOW

For the
Sanctity
of Breathing Life Now...

Meanwhile, i Won't Be Shooting
Any Unarmed Kids Making An Other
Wise Fatal Mistake Breaking into A Home

For Material Goods that are so much easier

to Replace

Than A Human
Who Makes Any

Ignorant Mistake;

Just to Save the So-called
Christian County Money over an
Ounce of Flesh to Attempt to Rehabilitate With Mercy;

Yet if they Really Believe That What You Do to the Least
of Us You Do to God; Yeah, Better Hope 'He' Wasn't Serious

About Sending

Folks Like that
to Burn Forever

For Not Even Clothing
And Feeding And Educating

The Homeless Person From Mexico in Texas...

Yet of Course That Would Be Inherently Hypocritical,
And Evil As Any Hero oF LiGHT Changes into Villain of DarK

(FACE PALMS FORESTS THICK)

It's A Challenge Some

Days For A

REAL Earth

Angel Not to Change
Back into A REAL Earth Devil/Demon/Whatever...

Yet Given Enough Practice Day Overcomes Night...

As i For One, Marry the Night For DarK Muse and Merry The
Day Brighter Than

Ever iN LiGHT;

Other than
that/THIS, it Should
Be A Very Interesting
Political Season of Mid-Terms to come...

"Eve," Pass the Popcorn the 'Mid Terms' are Coming Next As A Human Circus

Continues to Unfold From A Big Top And Deeper Bottom, Likely Still To Come;

Yeah, It's True, Now or Then; When Your Wife and Son Seem Like They May Be Dying

It's Earth

Shattering Indeed;

i Am Surely Not One

Who Will Ever Judge A

Woman on Her Choice to Live or Die...

And i Damned Sure Don't Expect
Anyone to Die for me...

Or Love Me or Even

Give me

The Time of Day;
What i Will Do is Give
iN THiS Eternal Now i ActuAlly
Experience as An Autotelic Flow
On Task of Heaven On Earth Within;

Just Sharing, Caring, Healing For All
With Least Harm For the JoY oF LiGHT
This Sanctity of Breathing Life Inhaling Peace

Exhaling
Love Just

A Free For All With SMiLes...

It's True, i am in A Best Company
of Life That is Real THiS Way At Least Within...

AnYWaY, This is my Mother's Day 2022/1997 REAL
LIFE Story, and i'm still Hangin' With it Alive NOW With This Sanctity of Breath...

Some Life And Death Decisions are Much too Hard to Make Without The

'Human Relative

Free Will' of 'Choice'...

As the Crowd Jeers on....
As 'The Crowd' JeerS on...

For the Nature
of the Sanctity
of Breathing Life Now...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6pj2hp2c_g

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I thought this little bit o’satire would be amusing to others.

A lot of people do not have a choice about where they live - for example, children. Blue states also tend to have higher living costs due to their desirability, so it’s not as simple as upping and moving across the country.

A majority of women don’t agree that abortion should be illegal. Comfortable majorities of Americans support Roe vs Wade, support loosening state restrictions on abortion, and support a constitutional amendment explicitly guaranteeing abortion access. But in any case, human rights should not be subject to the whims of the majority, for obvious reasons. Even if 99.9% of Americans thought that abortion was wrong, anyone who wanted one should still be entitled to one, just as if 99.9% of Americans thinking it was OK to crucify Seventh Day Adventists wouldn’t make it OK.

Excuses, excuses. Blue states have a higher cost of living due to high taxes, not desirability. There’s a steady stream of Californians moving to Texas. New York has experienced a significant loss of population as well. But taxes aside, areas with higher cost of living often have higher incomes. I was offered a job that would have given me the option of moving to a more expensive suburb and sending my kids to a nice public school. We decided as a family it wasn’t the best or most ideal option for us. The pay would have been more than adequate to live in a good school district while commuting to my job. I accepted a different job, though, because even though the school we’ll send our kids to isn’t quite so nice, it’s still great and balances better with our income.

I mean, the thing you have to remember about Mississippi is we rank among the lowest if not THE lowest income in the nation. But cost of living is remarkably low, too. There’s not much real difference between living here or in New York State since proportionally there’s not a significant enough difference. I wouldn’t mind moving somewhere upstate, maybe somewhere like Lake Placid, or even as far as Watertown or Massena. After that it’s just a matter of adapting to paying higher taxes and figuring out how the budget is going to work out.

Anyone who wants to bad enough is going to make it work, which is my whole point. If you grow up in Mississippi where abortion is very unpopular, you’re already used to the idea that abortion is murder. Even in the case of rape a Mississippi girl isn’t as likely to want an abortion—she’ll grow up with the idea that her baby didn’t choose its circumstances and will want to keep the baby. And I THINK Mississippi’s trigger law even allows abortion after rape. Girls who grow up in or near New York will grow up with the idea that there’s nothing wrong with abortion on demand and will more likely have an abortion at some point.

Economics is a poor excuse for not moving. It’s not “economical” for me to relocate us or “fair” that my kids have to say goodbye to their friends again after two years. Sometimes that’s just the way it is. So you decide how much certain things mean to you. Is access to abortion really that important, or are you better off staying where you are and taking more precautions to make sure you don’t get pregnant? Moving and starting a new life ain’t fun, but by moving you really can have your cake and eat it, too.




So the majority should be ruled by the 1%? Where have I heard that before?

Surely you are aware that there is a significant population of violent criminals and pedophiles in American prisons, yes? Are you saying that we should respect the rights of murderers and perverts above the rights of, say, the 99% who aren’t murderers and pedophiles?

Well one thing about this issue that bothers me is there are a lot of protests about it it seems going on, but also there seems to be possible threats of violence of this is overturned, but can't people have respect for a nations judicial process? Whatever happened to a majority opinion of the people have spoken, unless votes and judicial processes do not mean anything to people who believe they are always right, and the majority of judges in the law do not get a vote?

Simplistic and incorrect.
It is the moral principles involved that are creating this social divide.
(I don't agree with them, but I am aware of them).
You need to divorce your dislike of the conservative side of politics from the theological aspects involved.

Indeed, the main moral argument of pro-lifers is that a fetus is a human being.
Though, even fully accepting this argument would not lead to justifying some laws here and, AFAIK, in some states in USA.
So, again, moral dispute is one thing, political agenda is another. Situation normal.

Is there a political agenda?
If so, I'd like to hear it.

That's really a stretch, even for you.

Nothing on the statement from Sarah Weddington to the Supreme Court?
Why should any woman have lesser constitutional rights to bodily autonomy than a man?

Partisan power plays - at least here in Poland.