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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)whether or not they believe the things someone who is not grounded in physical medicine tells them.
it's oppressive to the maximum to assume your religious belief is good for everyone - people choose to associate with others who share beliefs but they also regularly act and think in ways that are contrary to those beliefs, so, honestly, who cares if someone has a religious belief - until they try to force it on everyone else.
I think it's ridiculous to "oppose abortion" and then claim that means you don't provide support to those who want to outlaw it. The linguistic frames are the same. The mindset comes from the same place. If you really gave a goddamn about life, you'd work to make sure females had economic power - that's how you reduce the number of abortions - by empowering women.
Even so, birth control is not 100% effective. There's no reason a woman should have to abide by a religious system which she finds is unscientific and unethical because another group finds some sort of social power in a belief.
Doctors know far more about issues related to blastocysts, embryos and so forth, than religious people do. Doctors do provide information as part of health care for females.
Where do get the information that pro-choice supporters want to take away the right of doctors to practice medicine? It's this sort of bullshit from the religious that makes me want to puke. You're trying to pretend that the reality that some states have no places for safe abortion is okay because of religious beliefs, and so is opposing choice for women - i.e. the barefoot and pregnant mindset - and the problem, you want to pretend, is pro-choice who expect to be able to access legal healthcare.
It's this ridiculous b.s. that makes me detest religions.