It bears repeating:
The Republican Party has been this way even before Goldwater. This nothing new. But starting with Jerry Falwell, with his Moral Majority, religion became an overt player, that on the heels of Roe v. Wade. Close enough.
These 'preachers' told their people abortion was and is murder; they bought it.
That's it, that's what happened.
Then it morphed into all kinds of issues, but that is their movement as its core.
I know there all kinds of subtle nuances, but that is what it boils down to.
So I ask you about that specific issue: how do you feel about abortion?
It's way too late to put that genie back in the bottle; it's become much more than that. The super-rich has manipulated events and issues to "divide and conquer" us, no doubt, to turn who would've been friends into enemies.
But what about what about abortion?
Yes education and birth control might have worked, but it's gone way beyond that.
What are your comments? Is it hopeless, a permanent breach, or can something be done?
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It is a conscionable issue that woman have to decide for themselves, unfettered from religious doctrine. They must have control of their own bodies and have the choice of whether they would rather die or live in some cases, or whether they want to raise a child in horrific circumstances. Only the woman would be able to see all of her options clearly, and she must have the option to do so. To impose an unsubstantiated belief that a soul or spirit is involved is just as religious and wrong as the belief that a Spirit in the Sky is somehow involved in our lives.
nogod4me
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Jan 14, 2021
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Yes of course it goes without saying Pro Choice is the way to go, but how do YOU feel about it?
I'm fine with it.
@Storm1752 I'm glad that a safe procedure for abortion is available.
As for the human aspect, I would have to meet everyone who has had an abortion, in order to know their circumstances, to know how I would "feel" about each one.
Religion has demonized the word abortion, just as it has demonized the word atheist. People will call themselves almost anything but "atheist."
If you don't believe in god or gods, then you are an atheist, that simple.
If a woman found out that her baby would be deformed and would suffer greatly in whatever life it could muster. She may have the resources to deal with that issue: money, family, etc., so she chooses to have the baby. The resources would make her life easier even though her child would still suffer the choice she made.
In this case I would feel sorry for the child, and wonder what may have influenced the woman to keep the child. If it was religious indoctrination, I would feel sorry for her also, she had been deceived.
Religion imposes the idea that we have a spirit, in order to keep the issue in an emotional arena, so that they can battle the forces of darkness away. They are always wanting to know how you "feel" about It, so that it is kept emotional.
Goes back to 1940 America First Committee.
barjoe
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Jan 14, 2021
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What's that?
@Storm1752 America First Committee was Nazi sympathizers in Republican party who wanted England to lose the war, so had a nonintervention policy to keep US out of WWII. [smithsonianmag.com]
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