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Jennie's avatar

Interesting discussion, MK. Thanks.

In that vein, I have long thought that if we called embryos and fetuses "unborn teenagers," the forced birth movement would collapse.

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Apple Pie's avatar

Sophia is far out - or maybe her work is rather a relic of more interesting times.

Ultimately conservatives are less comfortable with processes, blends, and intermediate transformations than liberals are. It's either the baby or the mother; it's either an ape or a human; it's either a drug or a medicine. Transitions from child to adult, unmarried to married, and even alive to dead are often ritualized and legalized with a ceremony so that one can clearly say whether a person is one thing or another without having to accept the interstitial or intermediate.

Two-and-only-two is the conservative's favorite number: https://thingstoread.substack.com/p/how-many-genders-are-there

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Spike Gillespie's avatar

Excellent. Thank you.

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John's avatar

human life has its own value, not because of what we do

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Apple Pie's avatar

Interesting; why?

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