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Apparently women's bodies are considered 'hosts', according to one US lawmaker
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yanipheonu
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I mean, he's kinda correct? But it doesn't make him any less callous towards the women who are the "hosts". They're people too.
It's bullshit because there's no safe way confirm the father of a child until it's gone a full term and born
the whole point is to try and delay the abortions more and more so they eventually force women to carry full term just from basically holding them at legal gunpoint.
So if someone goes "hey that's my kid in there", you file a thing in court, the woman goes through the pregnancy, pays the body price, then it turns out it wasn't his kid, he goes "oh well" and walks away
there's just so many wrong things about this idea in the first place..
Said "father" could be a rapist btw. Imagine having to ask your rapist for permission to not keep his baby. Utterly monstrous.
iRAWRasaurus
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He makes it sound like a parasite using host.
Trailblazer34
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That party of small government tho
He's not right given it's entirely framed under the pretense that the woman was careless and it's her fault for getting pregnant, once that happens she signs away the right to her body. My wife is currently pregnant and just watching her go through all she has these past 5 months, I can't help but want to throw dirt at men like this who assert any sort of dominance in a process they don't have to carry for 9 months at a time and all that comes with it.
smokeandmirrors
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Republicans are a goddamned cancer Jesus fucking Christ.
ladyluthien
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What the fuck you call me motherfucker?
radios shipping overview
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He's saying out loud what I figured the Republicans had long ago decided about a woman's body.
He's saying out loud what I figured the Republicans had long ago decided about a woman's body.
Aquavelvaman
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Another article:
Oklahoma Lawmakers Want Men To Approve All Abortions
Just the worst.
I think a lot of kids in the flowover states grow up kind of ashamed of where they're from, but get over it as they grow up. But here I am, still embarrassed by Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Lawmakers Want Men To Approve All Abortions
Just the worst.
I think a lot of kids in the flowover states grow up kind of ashamed of where they're from, but get over it as they grow up. But here I am, still embarrassed by Oklahoma.
Mr. Poolman
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It is offensive to even think this.
Team Filler
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Huh. Interesting that he uses the same term for pregnant women that Westworld uses to label its androids without rights.
davepoobond
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its the only way they can justify it. they cant treat women as people.
ex: churches could file John Doe suits against pregnant women, legally forcing them to carry to term and then just drop the case once they're in the third trimester
Rapist files as revenge against their victim
woman gets pregnant, splits from her abuser, abuser files the suit, woman miscarries, now the woman is in legal trouble for what the court now views as abuser's "property".
Funny how macho men are all "women aren't equal" for sports or science and shit but suddenly in pregnancy they're like "oh man we're totally in equal standing here" for the one thing women definitely take 99.99999999999999999999% of the work and risk for.
Rapist files as revenge against their victim
woman gets pregnant, splits from her abuser, abuser files the suit, woman miscarries, now the woman is in legal trouble for what the court now views as abuser's "property".
Funny how macho men are all "women aren't equal" for sports or science and shit but suddenly in pregnancy they're like "oh man we're totally in equal standing here" for the one thing women definitely take 99.99999999999999999999% of the work and risk for.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Completely fucking outrageous.
Not only sex-shaming, but saying women are no longer human beings after getting knocked up.
Not only sex-shaming, but saying women are no longer human beings after getting knocked up.
Kadin
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Pro Life is such a crock of horseshit as none of these fuckers give a damn about the child once its born. After that its fuck'em, but at least they were born! Then they fight tooth and nail against programs to help the poor, children, education and anything else that could probably help said children and children in general.
NoblesseOblige
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In that case a fetus is a parasite and we don't give those rights! Unless of course he's cool with us giving him tapeworms for life.
I wonder what percentage of republican lawmakers are actual living alien parasites inhabiting soulless flesh husks, many things would make sense
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Corn is not the only thing high in Oklahoma
A fetus is pretty parasitic in nature, really.
John Kowalski
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We've had a thread on this.
MarkRenton
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is the n word really needed here
Trailblazer34
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Don't forget the religious crazies. This is why things like this happen after all.
this is when we don't let the religious guy speak. This is when we tell the religious guy to shut the fuck up and lock him in the bathroom.
I'm sorry but seriously, there is a time and a place for metaphysics in law, and this is not it.
2 groups no one will claim. One group no one can claim. So they claim each other. In secret of course. they know they're ugly as shit in public. With the rich fuckers being the masterminds.
I'm sorry but seriously, there is a time and a place for metaphysics in law, and this is not it.
2 groups no one will claim. One group no one can claim. So they claim each other. In secret of course. they know they're ugly as shit in public. With the rich fuckers being the masterminds.
BrutishMrFish
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They don't even really care about the fetus before birth, either, otherwise they would treat fertility clinics the same way they treat Planned Parenthood.
-tetsuo-
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Definitely
parrotbeak
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I'm late but this really is the definition that fits how he's using that word:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/host
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/host
Kadin
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I really miss Carlin. It's amazing how much of the shit he said was so properly conveyed during his comedy acts. At times it may have seemed a little preachy to some but he told it like it was and I think many, many people could relate to what he had to say.
clearacell
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the only reason a woman should ever have to tell anyone else about an abortion is if she wanted to be polite...otherwise it has nothing to do with anyone else.
Angelus Errare
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Shit is fucked.
excelsiorlef
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The analogy fails anyway if I invite you in, I can ask you to leave whenever I want and you have to go. If ya don't go I can even call the police and have you forcibly removed.
To be fair, men spend a total of 2, maybe 3 minutes awkwardly thrusting on top of a woman to make a baby. Thats a lotta hard work. /s
Already Torn
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I kind of like this phrasing because it emphasizes that an unwanted fetus is a parasite, like a tapeworm.
Yup, it's really weird that it's being used in an anti-abortion bill.
what about vampires?
chaosblade
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Yes, of course. Invite. Because you know, if she doesn't want to get pregnant, she can just shut that whole thing down and refuse to invite.
everyday math
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I really need to stop going on general side Gaf. Not sure how much more my heart can take this.
Tho it's nothing new. There was just that thread about that Arkansa law and some of the posters in there had the same mind set.
Tho it's nothing new. There was just that thread about that Arkansa law and some of the posters in there had the same mind set.
CadetMahoney
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US lawmaker talking a lot of shit really, none of the shit he said is legal speak. None of it has any legal merit, like zero background test cases or legal precedence to support.
The "responsibility argument" has been done and dusted, it was all settled in 1973.
Fertilization is neither illegal nor negligent, so no obligations of the actors can be derived from it (i.e. IVF clinics are under no obligation to store eggs indefinitely).
Just backwater bar talk.
"I believe it's, derp, invited in, host herp".
The "responsibility argument" has been done and dusted, it was all settled in 1973.
Fertilization is neither illegal nor negligent, so no obligations of the actors can be derived from it (i.e. IVF clinics are under no obligation to store eggs indefinitely).
Just backwater bar talk.
"I believe it's, derp, invited in, host herp".
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