Olympic Gymnast Simone Biles is Pro Choice. Crazies are Piling On
Olympic athlete Simone Biles made it know publicly she is in favor of abortion rights. She posted, "Her body, her choice." Anti abortion critics dumped on her. She pointed out anti abortion is all about control of women.
Sometimes people in religion and politics leave a hole in their logic large enough to drive a truck through it. The Bible is that way. The vague and incomplete way it was written in ancient languages in ancient times left many issues unclear. No where does it condemn abortion. Nor, does it condemn people who are homosexual. So people on both sides can claim divine guidance.
With anti abortion, the big hole in the argument is when does a human life begin. Roe v Wade took a stab at a rule as to when abortions needed more contemplation and reflection. Religious anti abortion zealots need no contemplation or reflection. They assign a religious definition as to when a human being begins. This is totally an arbitrary definition--about as meaningful as picking several periods of a pregnancy and putting them on a dart board. Where the dart hits is the beginning of a human life. All this while claiming their definition is based on "science."
Ms. Biles is a seasoned public figure as well as athlete. She knew well when she made her views known it would cause a big reaction. So many people including celebrities are pushing back from rabid anti abortion rhetoric. This makes one hopeful women will have access to abortion for the foreseeable future.
These days, apparently a celebrity who makes her liberal views on abortion known is not in jeopardy of losing income. She has made controversial statements before. Her net worth is listed as $2 million. Most likely liberal views about abortion will increase her offers of endorsements. Politicians and preachers have been making money off of antiabortion for decades.
I appreciate Ms. Biles speaking up against religious people who want to put their religion into our government. She speaks for all of us who are harmed by religious operatives that do this.
Per se, I don't think anti-abortion is about controlling women.
ReplyDeleteBut when you combine it with restrictions to obtaining contraception, it sure is.
Bryan K-- Sorry I was slow in putting up your comment. Was traveling and the motel I stayed at didn't have a wifi that worked.
DeleteAs to whether anti abortion per se is about controlling women, I used think like you. But, the truth is there. Anti abortion wing nuts are demanding expensive "funerals" for tissue from abortion facilities. Abortions caused by God, miscarriages, they never mention requiring "funerals." The only reason for the fake funeral is to shame women. If it was to "honor the life of the fetus (baby they call it) they would require it in both cases.
Back a few years, the villain was the abortion doctor or clinic. The woman was referred to as a "victim." She didn't know any better. Now the doctor/clinic has been taken replaced with abortion inducing medicine. It always was the woman who made the decision but politically it was better to blame the doctor. Now there is no choice but to zero in on women. And, they are doing it.
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ReplyDeletetsm "we do in fact have miscarriages for miscarried babies."
DeleteI know that happens. I once attended one. But its nuts to pass laws requiring funerals for fetuses, children or adults. Laws now being attempted requiring funerals for all abortion fetuses but not all fetuses is just the kind of crazy thinking that comes out of the anti abortion political machine.
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ReplyDeletetsm-- There you go with your misdirection game again. Laws about disposing of bodies are there, not to show "respect for the dead" but for health reasons.
DeleteProposed laws requiring funerals for fetuses are politics, plain and simple. Why don't you just admit that and stop trying to change the subject.
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ReplyDeletetsm -- Individual people treat individual circumstances in the way they choose. If one family wants to have a funeral for grandpa or for a miscarriage or for the family pet there is no law preventing them. But also, there is no law requiring them to hold a funeral for any of them. What you are struggling with is the difference between a law requiring funerals after abortions and your own individual choice. Since you yourself would advocate a funeral after an abortion you think a law requiring one is just fine. You seem to think what you would prefer in your own life and what should be required by law are one and the same. In that way you reflect the entire spectrum of anti abortion zealots.
ReplyDeleteIf the entity in a woman's womb wasn't human and wasn't alive, then why kill it? Abortion is death.
ReplyDeleteMatt--The fetus is part of the woman's body. You have talked her of your surgeries. Did doctors every remove tissue from your body? Did you have a funeral?
DeleteI wonder where new humans come from in your world? The adoption agency? The stork? In the lettuce patch? Your mom was pro-life.
DeleteMatt "I wonder where new humans come from in your world?" Very original. I have been asked that a hundred, no may a thousand, time since starting this blog. I runs like this, "Since you don't believe life begins at conception tell us when you think a human life begins." I have said countless times I don't know and I have no obligation to decide or have an opinion on the topic. I just know one fertilized cell is not a human being.
ReplyDeleteI wish it were possible for the likes of you and tsm to argue in a rational and methodical way. If you did that you would not assume you are correct and that everyone should instantly agree you are correct in your mythological belief one cell is a human being. Instead, you would state upfront, "My church teaches one fertilized cell in a human being." After first making that disclaimer you could proceed with your argument. By not recognizing it is a religious belief you are just making another off-the-wall propaganda case.
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Deletetsm -- I've asked you several times to state clearly, "My religion teaches a human life begins when one cell is fertilized. That one cell is a human being the same as I am sitting here today." Instead you try to slip by that requirement and pretend it is self evident. It is not self evident, it is a concept which originated in religion.
ReplyDeleteIf you are straight forward and not tricky with your posts they will go up.