It is so, so much better here, in so many ways.

Technically speaking you kind of do? The way the States have structured things your individual states have the same binding ability full on countries do... "Land of the Free" sounds kind of insane when you exist outside of that and see instead two countries at constant war with each other fighting over whose rules are the most binding over each of it's citizens particularly... You can even be extradited back to a former state you lived in! That isn't how it works for damn near every other democracy. That isn't freedom that's just color coded chains.

I would agree if I believed those places were actually capable of change. I do believe some red states are looking for the change. (North Carolina, Georgia, Montana are some examples.) I have family and friends in the south and the majority of people in those areas are amazing and don't care about all these culture wars. But those in those areas that do are willing to do violence to achieve their goals. If you are a target of those that want to do harm, I can not in good conscience advice anything other than leaving. Currently women and LGBTQ+ individuals literally are in physical and mental danger. Those areas will kill them before giving up any more power. Flee if you can, and literally fight if you can't. I guess that's my main point. We've given those areas more than 200 years to get their shit together and have nothing to show for it.

Part of the problem is that you can have a state consisting of 300 neckbeards and it will still have Senators and a Representative in Congress, and thus voting power on legislation. I don't blame people for fleeing, but staying and making states blue will have a bigger effect on change.

Pretty sure that's what people refer to when they say Christian values.

This entire country was founded on "fuck you got mine"

Don't you know? All those abortions you hear about are for evil hussies who can't stop getting with men.

But if I have complications, I get to still have a medical procedure to terminate my pregnancy, right?

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It's because those women can feel power over those other women who aren't as good as they are.

It’s horrid, I know. To have a dead baby inside you and to suddenly find that anti-abortion lawmaker you so gleefully supported is preventing you from removing its lifeless body. Who could have known, right? Maybe if we pray?

Maybe going through that will give them the missing empathy they needed to be a decent human being

The thing is, I don't really care what people "deserve", or what they "don't deserve". How should I know? I'll be a dork and quote Tolkien: "Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment."

But I do care about who's in the pact. We have an agreement, between us, we decent people. We watch out for each other. We protect each other. Or if we can't, when something terrible is done to somebody, at the very least, we speak out, in protest, in sympathy, in sorrow. And the people covered by this pact, as far as I'm concerned, are the people who follow it - that's it, the sole criteria for membership, about the lowest bar possible.

I'm not going to force somebody to carry a dead fetus because they forced other people to do so, but when the cruel laws they always thought would only apply to other people suddenly apply to them, I don't owe them my sympathy either. They aren't in the pact.

Trying to be better is why conservatives are fucking us as much as they are.

Fuck that. Those women who voted for this fucking deserve it.

I'm with you on this. I worry that too mamy people cheer on the pain of the "other" without realizing that in doing so they become the worst of what they hate

People make bad decisions, but then some of them grow. To tell them that they deserve their pain, just because they didn't understand what it was they were doing, is pretty fucked up

They have a change of heart but years later after they are past the age to have kids they go right back. The number of older women trying to take away the rights they enjoyed is disgusting.

** blastocyst

That’s part of why the laws are so strict, so even rape victims have to carry them to term

The people who passed the bans can't imagine passing on their genes any other way.

And if the rapist is a rich white boy, nothing will happen to him.