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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Funny -- it's where the right loses me, with the notion that the government should be involved as family counselor, requiring a pregnant woman to talk to her parents, or requiring her to convince a judge that her relationship with her parents is such that doing so would place her in danger.
If a woman is mature enough to carry a child, she is mature enough to decide, on her own, whether or not to discuss it with her parents.
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But isn't that the fundamental question here - whether anyone has the right to decide whether she has to go forward with a pregnancy? No, wait... Actually, the real crux of the divide in this country is that some people believe its an infringement on their rights to be told they cannot infringe on the rights of others. Am I just citing the obvious when I say I'm fucking baffled... One side of this argument is saying "You are infringing on my right to tell you what to do, how to live, how to behave." Doesn't this strike anyone else as absurd? I don't get an inch of what the Right wants, or how they get up the nerve to ask for it. They're essentiaally seeeking to be made cultural/social rulers over people who share none of thier values. It'd be like the Left saying "Its an infringement on my rights to not be able to tell the Jesus Loons they cannot go to church." Yet the right straightfacedly makes exactly that argument against abortion, gay marriage, etc.... The debate shouldn't even recognize such an argument. The intellectual dihonesty of the way the argument is postured aside, its a fucking unconstitutional demand by one religious sector to control the whole of society. No one argues that point. Why?
