Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "DeSantis signs Florida's 6-week abortion ban into law" video.

  1. Rape exceptions don't make sense. If you think that an embryo is the same thing as a baby, then the circumstances of conception wouldn't change that. Thus, it's just more evidence that the goal is to punish women for having sex.
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  2. Ok, but abortion should always be available as well.
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  3. There's no harm in not being born.
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  4. On the contrary.
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  5.  @shack8110  True, thankfully embryos aren't persons.
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  6.  @susansilvey1614  It's not a baby yet.
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  7.  @grib695  Not a person. There's no harm in not being born.
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  8.  @Stanzi18  And thus demonstrating their lack of credibility and honesty. They're disingenuous.
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  9.  @candace8412  Not this again... It's not a question of species. Obviously, human embryos and human fetuses are human. I'm referring to personhood, the characteristics that make killing wrong: sentience, the will to live, biological autonomy, and everything else that is taken away when a person is killed. In a rudimentary way, babies have that. Embryos & fetuses don't. There's no harm in not being born.
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  10.  @candace8412  That seems like a lot of hassle, but in any case, I don't really care.
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  11.  @Raine1990  It should be available on demand, and without apology.
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  12. Bad move.
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  13.  @ScottCleve33  I'm not playing any words games. People often say things like "if you had been aborted, you wouldn't be here!" It's so silly. I just wouldn't exist. I would have never even had the capacity to think/know/mind/care. There's no harm in it. (In fact, there's a school of thought that holds that never being born [conceived or not] is the best possible outcome, but that's off the subject.)
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  14.  @christsdaughter9569  Embryos & fetuses don't have personhood. They're in a quasi-parasitic state. Rights go to the pregnant woman, the host organism.
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  15.  @Ohwowamazing  True, and irrelevant.
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  16.  @candace8412  No, that comes later.
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  17.  @CM-zl8iu  That's one option. Abortion is another, among many.
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  18.  @ScottCleve33  No, personhood consists of the characteristics by which we judge killing to be wrong- sentience, the will to live, biological autonomy, and everything else that's taken away when a person is killed. In a rudimentary way, babies have that. Embryos & fetuses can't and don't. They're in a quasi-parasitic state. Nobody minds not being born.
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  19.  @ScottCleve33  Fetal pain, to the extent that it exists at all, does not arise until long after this, and certainly after nearly all abortions occur. The cardiac activity referred to in legislation like this isn't a heartbeat (according to OB-Gyns), and no, there's nothing approaching brainwave activity.
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  20.  @christsdaughter9569  That depends on how it's translated, but so what? "Sex" is Latin for "six." As for the Bible, again, so what? What difference does that make?
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  21.  @christsdaughter9569  That's a canard. I would include a link but comments with those tend to disappear, so I will just recommend Dr. Jen Gunter's up-close-and-personal explanations of the situations you're referring to.
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  22.  @christsdaughter9569  He's not the host organism. The mother is; it's her body that's being taxed (sometimes quite horribly) by the process of pregnancy and childbirth. The decision is up to her.
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  23.  @christsdaughter9569  I don't know what you're replying to, and your comment is word salad, but in any event you won't have to "tell God" anything, as there is no such thing. All deities are made-up.
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  24.  @Raine1990  Having an abortion is one way to "take on the accountability," as you put it. It's also not simply a question of rearing a baby, but also going through pregnancy and childbirth itself.
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  25.  @Raine1990  What exactly do you mean by accountability, anyway? Regarding consequences, the consequence was pregnancy (nobody is pretending anything), and one subsequent choice is to have an abortion. That's what choice means.
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  26.  @Raine1990  Having an abortion is one of the ways to take responsibility.
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  27.  @Raine1990  How so? Someone who has an abortion took responsibility for an unwanted pregnancy.
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  28.  @Raine1990  Again, that's one way to take responsibility.
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  29.  @majesticslug3399  Yeah, but if they think that there's murder going on, they don't act like it. Compromise wouldn't seem acceptable, right? That, and it's also incoherent.
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  30.  @matthewemmick  I would have said that they're being horrible, but consistent.
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  31.  Yahayra Who?  Since you brought it up- if one crushes an acorn, did one cut down a tree?
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  32.  Yahayra Who?  Stepping on acorns has never been tantamount to deforestation.
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  33.  Yahayra Who?  There's no depravity, and no murder. There's no harm in not being born.
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  34.  @isgamer-8732  You really need to learn some political science, among other things.
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  35.  Yahayra Who?  How so? Judging by your other replies, I should tell you to not give me a religious answer.
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  36.  Yahayra Who?  No offense intended, but you're really babbling here.
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  37. Embryos aren't babies.
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