The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by a newer state law that criminalizes abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb.
State lawmakers adopted the ban in 1849, making it a felony when anyone other than the mother “intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child.”
It was in effect until 1973, when the US Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide nullified it. Legislators never officially repealed the ban, however, and conservatives argued that the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe reactivated it.
people need to stop trying to debate with these chuclefucks
it needs to be:
maga - “you’re murdering babies!!!”
normal people - “shut the fuck up”
Any help here-
I’ve never thought of a great argument to use against those who super seriously ACTUALLY believe zygotes are totally entirely humans
If you say a zygote has a soul how do I argue for women’s rights etc.
My support for abortion is grounded in my belief that zygotes don’t have souls. I don’t know if I would support abortion in general without believing this. Here are some things you can try, assuming that you’re talking with a rational person:
Great comment
Bullet point three OMG, anybody posed that on religious forums yet (surely similar but I like that specific thought experiment)
Sob stories. Seriously, they eat that shit up. Even if it’s fake, but sounds plausible. If you make it personal to you, especially if it involves a white person getting “accidentally” fucked over by bad policy. I’ve had pretty good luck getting softer responses from Rs by making up personal stories that they connect with. Even if you only get them to question one policy, you put a crack in their foundational beliefs. I avoided this for a long time for ethical reasons, but we’re past that now. I’m not above being deceitful anymore to get a point across. Most of them aren’t necessarily evil, they’re just convinced of evil policy by evil people. If I got my right wing mother to admit that Israel is committing genocide, there is hope.
The biggest thing here, is they think they can separate themselves from consequences of their choices. If they know someone they like that felt those consequences, instead of a nameless, faceless stranger, it makes it harder. Put your name and face out there as being effected by it, and the Rs in your circle will start to question their policy.
That’s worked for me on my mother and a few older Rs at work. Sure, maybe I’m being manipulative, but honestly, I don’t fucking care anymore.
There isn’t an argument needed. A zygote or embryo or whatever isn’t a living human. If someone says that these parasites have a soul, tell them souls aren’t real and ghosts don’t exist. Their religious beliefs have no place in science and policy. Or say that someone you interacted with is part of a religion that thinks that souls are made when a baby is born and takes it’s first breaths. It has the same merit as their argument.
While I agree with you, force doesn’t work in arguments, it only makes them plant their feet even harder.
Needed if we care about autonomy of adults though eh? Needed in the halls of congress…
Yes, “I must respect the opinions of those who have the heartfelt belief life begins at first breath after birth”—I like that!!
The classic one is “can you hook up someone to be the dialysis machine of someone else against their will”? Even if foetus are people, they shouldn’t have more rights than other people.
But since cruelty is the point (punishment for having sex) there’s no actual reasoning with them.
I like it, thanks!
Politically this is very obvious.
If we teleport to the deep south into a Bible church with our 1984 thought scanner, what percentage of parishioners would be revealed to “pro-“”life””” vs. “fuck yeah, cruelty!”
It’s non-zero, the “but jebus said!!!” crowd? (Course maybe the preacher and dozens of others are totally “hahahaha FUCK women”, just not gonna claim it’s all rational[ly evil] people b/c you’ll have grannies who probably tear up at thought of kiLliNg bAbiEs)
that would be debating these “chuclefucks”
As a Satanist they will never stop me from actively participating in my Sacrament unto Him, which includes lots of unprotected sex and a pizza shop in Baltimore.
May the glory of aborted fetii beseech him! All hail Satan glory to Beezlebub.
The sane people: