Do I like abortion, not really.

Do I think it should be banned? ? ? No. It’s not for me to decide how a person live’s their life, as long as it doesn’t interfere with me living mine.

Life… The determining word. When does life start? Biblically, life begins upon the live birth of a baby. Case in point, when handing out punishment, a person who causes injury to a women who’s baby is in her arms,a nd then dies, is punished for the death of the baby. If the baby is unborn, and the injury causes the birth to be aborted, they are punished for the injury to the woman only.

This decision isn’t mine to make, I stand on, let the woman decide for herself, if it’s the wrong decision, then let her face that judgment later.

I don’t know if that was the actual point of the original article (I haven’t read Amanda’s post at Pandagon yet), but I remembered it because it was such a pathetic argument in this truly awful book (you can read part of the first chapter at the book’s page at Amazon, if you’re in the mood to yell, “God damn you’re stupid!” at the computer screen every other sentence… ;-) ).

sam,

I’ve been a feminist since I first heard the word, when I was about 12. I’ve raised two feminist sons.

Wow! Still alive.

This uppity woman is telling you to get bent.

Steven:”Wait a second. Schiff admitted that Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion: “There is no question that she deplored the practice of abortion, as did every one of her colleagues in the suffrage movement.” Whether a quote was or wasn’t properly attributed to SBA doesn’t change that fact!”

Neither does Schiff saying something make it mean what you want. Abortion meant something slightly different in SA’s day: a risky and mostly unnecessary proceedure done many times by people not experienced in medicine. That is not exactly the case now.

I just pray that Sam isn’t locking and loading right now to kill a bunch of innocent school girls, and I say this only half in jest.

Sam, having a little trouble with women in your life? Or do you even have any women in your life? Have a woman boss or coworker who is smarter and more successful than you perhaps? Have problems with your masculinity? Simply can’t get a woman no matter hard you try?

Are you so insecure in your own masculinity that you must renounce feminism? Do you have any real idea what “feminism” really is or are you just afraid that you, yourself, could not measure up if you had to compete with a female in something? Do you really believe that America would be better by suppressing the skills and potential of at least half of its human resources (i.e. women)?

Here are some dictionary definitions of feminism:

The advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. (from my Mac dictionary widget)

1. (a) The theory that women should have political, economic, and social rights equal to those of men; (b) the movement to win such rights for women. (from Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, and also in Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language)

Now tell me, Sam, which of these rights do think should be denied to women, and why?

The day is fast approaching where our country cannot support feminist nonsense any longer.

It would be wise for every political party to renounce feminism.

Feminism = suicide

Said it before, say it again: the need to project is essential to the psychological makeup of right wingers and their cousins the religious hypocrites.

THESE groups are the ones always trying to exploit women.

And just like creationists, FFL are good at using rhetorical tools, and trying to frame the debate with strawman arguments: So what if Susan B. Anthony had indeed signed the essay? Did she come down from Mount Sinai with the article written on stone tablets? Did she write with the help of divine inspiration?

Since Ms Anthony didn’t claim to be inerrant (nor has anyone else), we are all still free to agree with some of Ms Anthony’s views and disagree with others. She was just a error-prone human being, who lived and died over a century ago.

Conservatives are, once again, projecting their own penchant to see the written word as immutable truth that must be followed without questioning.