I'm familiar with quiverfull. (shudder) His poor wife.
He was against interfering with "God's will" in any way. I take it he oesn't take medicine for hypertension or cholesterol or heartburn? Wouldn't touch Viagra with a ten-foot pole? Because he believes in submitting *himself* as well as the women he controls to "God's Will?"
Yeah, thought so.
Calling fetuses "babies" is part of the advertising of the anti-Choice movement. They don't all extend "baby" beyond conceptus to male ejaculation, but it's a continuum.
In real life, everybody knows what a baby is, when the anti-Choicers aren't trying to muddy the issue. A baby is something that gurgles and coos and snuggles and nurses, breathes and opens big eyes wide with wonder on a brand new world. A baby is *not* a half inch long, worm shaped obligate parasite. The name for that is "fetus." Someone who tries to get you to mistake a fetus for a baby is like someone who tries to get you to mistake a car for the admiration of the opposite sex, or a house for the love of your family. They want you to make a mistake that will hurt you (or in this case women) and help them.
My crystal ball says uterine replicators would ignite a firestorm in the anti-Choice movement, splitting it into factions. You'll be able to tell which is which by what they do. The ones who honestly believe fetuses are human beings would be perfectly happy with uterine replicators, and would say so. The ones who are using "concern for babies" to enforce the double standard of sexual behavior will claim that the uterine replicators are the tools of the devil. With an audience not so sympathetic to magical claims, they'll say the replicators don't keep the "babies" safe. They will hire sympathetic "doctors" to do "studies" to muddy the waters, the way the tobacco companies did about cancer and the oil companies did about global warming. They will choke off any funding that would let women of modest means use uterine replicators to escape bearing unwanted babies. Simultaneously they will struggle to outlaw abortion since "uterine replicators make it unnecessary."
Re: I'm with you on this - Eric Rudolph missed me
He was against interfering with "God's will" in any way.
I take it he oesn't take medicine for hypertension or cholesterol or heartburn? Wouldn't touch Viagra with a ten-foot pole? Because he believes in submitting *himself* as well as the women he controls to "God's Will?"
Yeah, thought so.
Calling fetuses "babies" is part of the advertising of the anti-Choice movement. They don't all extend "baby" beyond conceptus to male ejaculation, but it's a continuum.
In real life, everybody knows what a baby is, when the anti-Choicers aren't trying to muddy the issue. A baby is something that gurgles and coos and snuggles and nurses, breathes and opens big eyes wide with wonder on a brand new world. A baby is *not* a half inch long, worm shaped obligate parasite. The name for that is "fetus." Someone who tries to get you to mistake a fetus for a baby is like someone who tries to get you to mistake a car for the admiration of the opposite sex, or a house for the love of your family. They want you to make a mistake that will hurt you (or in this case women) and help them.
My crystal ball says uterine replicators would ignite a firestorm in the anti-Choice movement, splitting it into factions. You'll be able to tell which is which by what they do. The ones who honestly believe fetuses are human beings would be perfectly happy with uterine replicators, and would say so. The ones who are using "concern for babies" to enforce the double standard of sexual behavior will claim that the uterine replicators are the tools of the devil. With an audience not so sympathetic to magical claims, they'll say the replicators don't keep the "babies" safe. They will hire sympathetic "doctors" to do "studies" to muddy the waters, the way the tobacco companies did about cancer and the oil companies did about global warming. They will choke off any funding that would let women of modest means use uterine replicators to escape bearing unwanted babies. Simultaneously they will struggle to outlaw abortion since "uterine replicators make it unnecessary."
Did I miss anything?