• Chris Remington
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    52 years ago

    The following are part of twenty premises in the introduction of a booked called Endgame.

    Premise Five: The property of those higher on the hierarchy is more valuable than the lives of those below. It is acceptable for those above to increase the amount of property they control—in everyday language, to make money—by destroying or taking the lives of those below. This is called production. If those below damage the property of those above, those above may kill or otherwise destroy the lives of those below. This is called justice.

    Premise Fourteen: From birth on—and probably from conception, but I’m not sure how I’d make the case—we are individually and collectively enculturated to hate life, hate the natural world, hate the wild, hate wild animals, hate women, hate children, hate our bodies, hate and fear our emotions, hate ourselves. If we did not hate the world, we could not allow it to be destroyed before our eyes. If we did not hate ourselves, we could not allow our homes—and our bodies—to be poisoned.

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      32 years ago

      Access to safe abortions (formerly a constitutional right like free speech and guns) will be entirely removed in large parts of the country. Raped by a family member and the pregnancy is threatening your life? Oh well, you have no right to life or bodily autonomy.

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          42 years ago

          You’re right, the ruling passed the authority to the states. There are some where there will be no change, but also some that have already criminalized it. The trouble is that regardless of what your local government decides access to safe and effective abortions is no longer a right guaranteed by our strongest institutions.

          Also wtf “we don’t regulate guns but we regulate women”

          Yep, one is dangerous and a threat to children that needs strict laws to keep the public safe. The other is a gun.