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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 50 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Still blows my mind that conservatives can be so crazy about saving cells, but not give two shits about feeding, schooling or making sure kids have stable homes.

I know it's religion, but man. Leave women to make their own choices.

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It’s about white supremacy also. They don’t want anything interfering with the supply of white babies.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 14 hours ago

Specifically poor white babies. Rich white people can afford to get an abortion elsewhere.

Poor people with lots of babies tend to be more religious, less educated, and more likely to be looking for scapegoats, compared to more privileged and wealthy people.

Makes it much easier to brainwash them into thinking that it's all [insert any marginalized group of people]'s fault

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's not Pro Life. It's Anti Choice.

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's pro-misery. And anti-life.

Those that don't like abortions mostly like state-sanctioned murder. Of living, breathing, born people.

They want any and every, viable and inviable group of cells occupying a uterus to come out and suffer.

Once you look at it that way, it all makes sense: why they want kids but don't want to care for them. And why they like their justice retributative. They don't like their own life, so neither should anyone else. The only way for those types to lower their own misery is to up everyone else's.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 2 hours ago

And they have the nerve to call it "tough love"

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Kids are just too many cells for them to keep track.

[–] chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They just need to have a clinic inside Disneyland.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 16 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

One nice thing about "Going to Disneyland" is that it's a perfect excuse for a person to spend a long weekend in California and come back tired. It's open all year long, and is so crowded it wouldn't be odd if another person was there at the same time and never saw you. It's easy to know what kinds of rides, food, and experiences one might have enjoyed, and appropriate souvenirs are available at LAX, you can stock up before you even leave the terminal. Whether you actually spend your time visiting Planned Parenthood and recuperating in your hotel room (or an Auntie's spare room) is entirely your business. Although spending some time in the noonday sunshine acquiring a toasted nose will add verisimilitude.

Editing to add: You could even get mifeprestone and souvenirs (for nosy coworkers) all delivered to your home in plain brown boxes and "Go to Disneyland" in the comfort and privacy of your own bedroom, if you're little enough along.

[–] chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 hours ago

Disneyland also has a medical center on site. If you get a cut, you go there to get a bandaid. I woman could easily say their head hurts—something they have probably told their husbands a million times to escape them—and tuck away for a quick “adios blastocyst!”

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Awesome if "Going to Disneyland" becomes the new code word for abortion!!!

[–] SiblingNoah@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Conservatives Hate This One Trick…