Re: House passes bill banning abortions after 20 weeks
House passes bill banning abortions after 20 weeks - CNNPolitics.com
Why is it so important for Boehner and his colleagues to discriminate against women and protect mythical fetus' rights? What's the reason behind? They only abortion Mr. Boehner should be worried about is his wife's. It doesn't give him a right to terminate her pregnancy though. Even his daughters have a right to do whatever they want to their bodies. So why he is trying to take this right away from American women?
One more thing. When people turn to religious it-is-in-God's-will arguments it means they've lost already.
Even if you disagree with their stance, it's absolutely simple to understand "why" they find this so important. It just requires on to actually be intellectually honest regarding the situation and attempt to be even mildly objective when viewing their actions through the prism of their views.
Boehner and the others are of a belief that said "fetus" is a child regardless of whether it's in the mother's body or not. Specific to this bill, they feel that is the case at 20 weeks within the pregnancy process. As such, they find this is so "important" just as they would find it "important" that the state have an ability to step in if a parents is attempting to kill a 5 year old because it's costing them too much money, or having a negative impact on their emotional well being, or because they don't think they could provide the right kind of life for that 5 year old, or whatever other reason.
While I recognize that you and others don't particularly view a fetus as being a "child", that does not mean these individuals do not. And judging their actions through an assumptive lens that completely ignores that key factor of their thinking, and judging/questioning their motives after doing so, is not just laughable but patentedly dishonest.
While I absolutely have zero concern or interesting the "Gods Will" argument, I fully recognize the absolute
fact that "person" or "child", and what it is from a legal or societal stand point, is an entirely subjective notion that is entirely subject to the methods and means in which a person decides they wish to form their opinion. There is no magical neon light hovering over every human's head that suddenly flares into flourescent luminescense saying "PERSON" at a specific measurable period of time. The reality is that the designation is one entirely based first and foremost around individuals opinions.
As such, while I may disagree with the bill itself, I can also fully see a reasonable and logically consistent thought process with regards to the Republicans in the House pushing this bill that has
nothing to do with having an intent and desire to strip away "women's rights" but rather a concern over the "childs" rights and acting in the way the US Government has acted since it's inception....weighing the rights of two seperate groups when those rights conflict with each other and creating laws to deal with those conflicts. In this case, they place the deliniating line 20 weeks. Prior to 20 weeks, the rights of the mother outweigh the rights of the child. After 20 weeks, the rights of the child outweigh the rights of the mother.
The reason this debate will continue to rage on in such a futile and ridiculous matter is because there are too many ideologues and hyper partisan types on both sides that continually and routinely refuse to actually engage in reasonable discussion or have any compunction what so ever to actually understand and recognize what and why the arguments
actually are by the other side, but instead debate and argue simply and singularly based upon their bigoted stereotypes they've created in their own mind and have deluded themselves into believing is somehow reality.
