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[lyssie]

I live in a Tim Burton movie. Or at least, he's done the cinematography out there. Because it's been foggy and creepy-looking all damned day.

Went to get comics, discovered the store was closed due to their being a sale at another location. Bah.

So I bought a tiki fountain at Walgreens instead.

In other news, middle-aged white men protesting abortion in front of Shank Hall rather than the Women's Health Clinic? Until you actually grow a uterus and can carry children, you don't get to have a fucking opinion on the subject.

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[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

On the fertility problems, I bring that up only because I think that it's the same issue -- why should a woman incapable of actually bearing a child have any say on abortion if men are not allowed any say because of the same reason?

And no, I'm not confusing the issues. I understand that there is a difference between the right to an abortion period and a father being involved, but Lyssie simply said that men are not allowed to have an opinion on abortion period because they can't bear children. I think that's wrong.

I'm just trying to get people to look at this from the other side, because you can never reach common ground if you can't even understand where the other side is coming from. If people believe that a fetus is a human life no different than you or me, then of course they're going say you can't kill one even if it's in your body. You don't tell people they can't oppose murder just because it's not someone they know being murdered. (From a moral standpoint, I'd be horrified at people who truly believe a fetus is a human life supporting abortion no matter how much I personally supported it.) From that standpoint, it's not a matter of "telling a woman what she can do with her body", it's a matter of protecting people with absolutely no way of protecting themselves.

And frankly? If it's nothing but a question of "you can't tell me what to do with MY body", then that's true whether you can have children or not.