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I absolutely fucking hate pregnancy crisis centers. These fucks and the assholes that fund them are fucking sociopathic. When a woman is pregnant she has an extremely important and difficult decision to make that will effect her life in a fundamental way for at least two decades but probably permanently... trying to manipulate someone making such an important decision because of your bullshit holy book (that doesn't even care about this) is morally fucking reprehensible. I've spoken with people who have been unable to talk about being forced into conversations with these asshats without breaking down in tears - these fuckers inflict deep trauma.
In a few decades these fucks will be viewed in the same general light as eugenicists and we can't get there fucking soon enough.
Fun fact, the moral permissibility of abortion has far and away the most consensus among philosophers. Literally philosophers are more confident that abortion should be permissible than that the external world exists.
As such, you can use opinions on abortion as a litmus test for sociopathic tendency since it’s such an easy moral question. In doing so, however, you’d be confronting the fact that 30% of Americans are moral black holes from whom no rational opinion can be extracted. In that context, slavery, misogyny, religion, and all the evils of humanity suddenly make sense.
It's wild that it's Planned Parenthoods that get burned down, not the ones that deserve to be.
"When a woman is pregnant she has an extremely important and difficult decision to make that will effect her life in a fundamental way for at least two decades but probably permanently…"
Yeah... Taking a coat hanger to her hoo-hah for the sake of avoiding motherhood is likely to leave her barren
This is the exact kind of bullshit that crisis pregnancy centers use to manipulate vulnerable women.
"This is the exact kind of bullshit that crisis pregnancy centers use to manipulate vulnerable women"
Crisis pregnancy centers exist to deter women from aborting. Encouraging chicks to DIY that shit is contrary to their mention