bottom line to many anti-choice activists is that the unborn child's rights trumps the rights of any actual functioning human lifeform.
Life is not nearly as precious once the child is born, but in the womb it is the MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER.
Wesley: I stabbed you. I should apologize for that. But I'm honestly not sure how. I think it'll just be awkward. Gunn: Good call. Wesley: Okay.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Aug 21, 2012 6:18:11 am PDT #18854 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Burrell - Aug 21, 2012 6:24:53 am PDT #18855 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Life is not nearly as precious once the child is born, but in the womb it is the MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER.
That's the part that pisses me off. If life is precious, why wouldn't you want to protect it and help it to flourish?
Connie Neil - Aug 21, 2012 6:26:05 am PDT #18856 of 30001
brillig
For a lot of these people, no woman is innocent.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2012 6:31:05 am PDT #18857 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If life is precious, why wouldn't you want to protect it and help it to flourish?
Only brand new, pre-born life is THAT precious.
Kate P. - Aug 21, 2012 6:36:41 am PDT #18858 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
It seems a little weird to put it this way, but when I got pregnant it only deepened my conviction that the right to obtain an abortion is an absolute necessity. Even leaving aside how profoundly a baby changes your life after it's born, carrying one for nine months just takes over your life in every way -- physically, emotionally, socially -- even if it's a pretty easy pregnancy, like mine was. I can't imagine being pregnant if I didn't really, truly, deeply want it. To be denied the choice of whether or not to keep the pregnancy is frankly horrifying.
While the passing stranger wouldn't necessarily be aware that the woman was raped, any person that she sees with any degree of regularity is likely to realize that she was raped. (Unless there's a significant other to pose as biological father.)
I don't know about that. If someone I knew was pregnant and didn't have an SO, I wouldn't necessarily assume she'd been raped. If I gave it much thought at all, I'd think probably casual fling that ended when the guy didn't want to take on the responsibility of being a father. Or even that the woman really wanted a baby and had sought out a sperm donor, as a friend of mine recently did, and others have considered doing.
Jessica - Aug 21, 2012 6:38:52 am PDT #18859 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Instead of thinking about Todd Akin today, I have decided to just watch this supercut of Leslie Knope doing impressions over and over until I have memorized it.
meara - Aug 21, 2012 6:39:14 am PDT #18860 of 30001
Oy. Back from vacation...wondering how the heck many emails I"m going to have to plow through today. Eek.
§ ita § - Aug 21, 2012 6:40:44 am PDT #18861 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm going to never assume anyone has been raped unless I was there or they told me. So no pregnancy is as a result of that unless the first sentence is fulfilled and they tell me that this pregnancy is related to that, no matter how many relationships they're not in.
Do people really go there? To rape rather than "some guy I didn't hear about?" That's depressing.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2012 6:44:40 am PDT #18862 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
A lot of people would ask, though, in the absence of an obvious baby's daddy.
Jessica - Aug 21, 2012 6:44:43 am PDT #18863 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hey, anyone who works in print, can you help me out here? A client of ours is requesting some stills in the following format:
16P wide
CMYK
TIF
300 dpi
The only one I can't figure out is 16P. It can't possibly mean 16 pixels, and the only other option I see in Photoshop that makes sense is "picas." Does that sound right?