Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Emotions Run High Following Supreme Court Decision Striking Down Roe V. Wade" video.

Does allowing each individual to make up their own mind early in pregnancy translate into being "for" abortion? I thought it meant being for a measure of freedom and respect for others' rights to their own beliefs. If anyone were to ask me if they should have an abortion, and I was absolutely sure they wanted my opinion, I'd say no -- if you have misgivings, don't do it.
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You mean like a lot of AK-15 owners? That seems to be a thing.
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@Kehvan It was a response to your non sequitur. No self-awareness, huh?
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I'm going to enjoy seeing America's claim to global cultural hegemony further eroded. Most people will enjoy that. Most people in the world, I mean.
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Which is likewise the basis of a number of other rights, including the right to birth control.
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Oh I get it. You don't know stuff.
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Which "rulings" do you speak of? The Supreme Court never ruled that abortion should be illegal, nor did it do so now.
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@gregjames9875 Can you be serious? Abortion was legal in several states, notably New York, long before Roe. Women were going to New York to have abortions. Ginsburg believed abortion rights should have a different constitutional basis, not that there was none.
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@gregjames9875 Take a few weeks and study logic. Let A mean "x is a constitutional right." Now negate A. ("It is not the case that x is a constitutional right") Does x become a criminal offense? BTW, what happened before the 1860s? Curious timing, over 80 years after the founding of the Republic. I'll have to go back and check Roe. It does have a lengthy historical section.
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@ThnkDfrnt Strawman. No one said they did. Give me a list of Western democracies that have no elective abortion. Roe never stood for the proposition that elective abortion was a protected right throughout pregnancy.
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@ThnkDfrnt Who is "we?" I live next to two states that just banned it.
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@GoSlash27 Who do you think you're talking to?
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@Saxxin1 I don't care how Americans live. I don't plan to stay here.
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@Saxxin1 You must have missed my very first post -- or it is being hidden from your sensitive eyes. 😂
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@GoSlash27 Far be it from me to deny a sliver of Schadenfreude. Make further fools of yourselves on the global stage, please. You cannot get most of Asia, Africa, and Latin America to condemn Putin for something that is clearly wrong, because they see through you.
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@GoSlash27 I didn't cry over a "dreaded" diagnosis, or a burglary soon after. I'm non-Western. 😉🤣🤣🤣
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@GoSlash27 "Who do you think you're talking to" is a question only you can answer, whether construed as literal or, quite obviously, not. I guess you're not too up on reading and logic yourself, huh? But repeating some nonsense cliche about popcorn presents no challenge at all.
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For the same reasons they think there is a constitutional right to, for example, birth control, or to decline a vaccination . . . oops.
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@Kehvan It made laws that prohibit birth control unconstitutional. You didn't know?
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@Kehvan Who said differently? See how that case is related to both abortion rights and privacy rights. That was the point. Or maybe you're unaware that some forms of birth control do allow a zygote to form, but prevent implantation? You never heard of such methods referred to as abortifacients? Well, in the coming weeks, and assuming you're paying attention, you will.
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@briansutton7764 You don't seem to understand. The right to have access to certain contraceptives, which can medically cause a zygote/early embryo to be expelled, and fertility treatments, which contemplate creating more embryos than will be implanted, are intertwined with abortion rights as well. It's a more complicated issue than you think. Cases of this natural will undoubtedly have to be relitigated at some point. Don't think fertility clinics in the most right-wing states aren't scambling, and calling up their lawyers for advice. It's not just the 13 year old with an appointment next week who has a problem.
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@briansutton7764 Just out of curiosity -- we don't know whether any of Jeffrey Epstein's victims ever got pregnant, but let's say they did.
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@briansutton7764 “Roe isn’t really about the woman’s choice, is it?” Ginsburg said. “It’s about the doctor’s freedom to practice…it wasn’t woman-centered, it was physician-centered.” --- Ginsburg at the University of Chicago. She actually took a case of a woman in the Air Force who was told to have an abortion or quit the Air Force. Ginsburg fought for that woman's right to choose not to abort. The Air Force backed down before the case came to court.
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@briansutton7764 I do grasp all of these things. I also grasp that I have better things to do than engage with a bad faith or uninformed interlocutor. It is later in the day than I had thought.
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@briansutton7764 You don't understand how certain forms of birth control work, OR why states have been unable to ban them.
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@briansutton7764 Spell better.
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@briansutton7764 There is one tiny, tiny good thing about the new activist Court: at least it is helping to erode further America's claim to global cultural hegemony. Small consolation, clearly not worth it, not even close . . . but maybe some people, somewhere, will have slightly better lives thanks to that. The hope is not entirely vain.
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@briansutton7764 I decided to emigrate in 2019, and the pandemic disrupted and postponed those plans. (If you knew how little I care, then you'd really hate me. 😉) However sick I think this society has become, I just can't keep up.
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@briansutton7764 You know everything. I know you must be why t. 😂😂😂 see how I got that right?
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@briansutton7764 I see you need to think I care much more than I actually do. Thinking about why you do might be amusing but I have Ukraine news and a Sebald novel to get back to. The bottom line is you support removing constitutional rights and I do not. You support putting a whole slew of questions up to a majority vote -- a vacillating majority -- and I do not. If popular sentiment were the standard, Brian Laundrie's parents could have been arrested and imprisoned for invoking their Fifth Amendment rights, Amber Heard could be committed to a mental hospital for filing an appeal in her case, and god only knows what might have been done to anyone who declines a COVID shot -- or what might still be done to them after the midterm election (but not now). The rights you squander will be your own. That much I am sure of.
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@Kehvan 1. Look up non sequitur. It has a broader definition than you think. 2. Your response to wry, ironic humor is extremely poor.
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