Who is up for a pro life bitch slapping?

[Cryptic Bert]

Dear Matt, ever since I first read your blog I knew you were a cowardly fake. It wasn't until I started reading some of your anti-choice articles that my suspicions were truly confirmed. You spend a lot of time picking the low hanging fruit. You attack the weakest abortion rights arguments while ignoring the glaring weaknesses in your own position.

If you had the guts or the brains you'd try to respond to the most important abortion rights argument... bodily autonomy or bodily integrity. This means that we have the final jurisdiction over our own bodies. Nobody can claim a right to our body that goes above our own right. Nobody can use our bodies without consent. We cannot be forced to donate organs or blood to someone else. A fetus must survive on a woman's body so the woman has a right to withdrawal her consent and her body at any time.

This is the pro-choice argument that no anti-choice fanatic... especially one as stubborn and simpleminded as you... could ever possibly dispute. If you still don't understand, try to imagine this hypothetical...

Imagine that you wake up one morning in a hospital bed. In the bed next to you is a famous singer. He is unconscious and all of these tubes are connected from him to you. A doctor comes in and explains that the singer became sick and you are the only person with the right blood type to match his. They need you to remain hooked up to him until he recovers... they tell you it should only take nine months. Until then, he needs to use all of your organs... your kidneys, liver, lungs, everything... just to survive. If you unplug yourself, he will die. So do you think you are obligated to stay plugged in? Does he have a right to live off of you like this? Should you be FORCED to stay connected to him?

That's what situation the pregnant woman is in. Instead of harping on all of these irrelevant issues, I wish you'd be brave enough to address it from this angle. It is immoral to require a woman to sustain a fetus and it is moral for a woman to make a decision with her body based on what is right for her. How can you argue against this?

But I guess your blog is more about preaching to the choir than actually being intelligent and bold in your writing. What a shame.

-Rachel

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[Solar]

 
That was no slap, that was a drop kick and a stomp to the throat.

[mdgiles]

"Imagine that you wake up one morning in a hospital bed. In the bed next to you is a famous singer. He is unconscious and all of these tubes are connected from him to you. A doctor comes in and explains that the singer became sick and you are the only person with the right blood type to match his. They need you to remain hooked up to him until he recovers... they tell you it should only take nine months. Until then, he needs to use all of your organs... your kidneys, liver, lungs, everything... just to survive. If you unplug yourself, he will die. So do you think you are obligated to stay plugged in? Does he have a right to live off of you like this? Should you be FORCED to stay connected to him?"

A couple of points here. First, having given up my seat on public transportation to more than a few pregnant ladies, when pregnant you are not required to stay in a bed hooked up to another adult. Last I checked, unborn children were rather small. Not to mention that you are responsible for your situation. Absent rape - you participated in the creation of that human you are attached to, so you can be said to bear just a little bit of the responsibility for your situation. Unless you're waking up in a hospital after being attacked by a stranger on the streets, those sex ed classes you took should explain to you exactly why that little human being is attached to you. I think one of the reasons that some pro abortion types want to kill the child, is because they understand that once that child is in his mother's arms, all chance of removing this "obstacle" disappears.