Comments on: “Responsible Adults”

By: kate

kate — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:20:28 +0000

wow when I posted my guesses last night, I was #2, now I’m down the line from those who knew the right answer.

May seem trivial, but to salvage my pride, I wouldn’t have written that had I seen the other, more knowledgeable posts.

By: Magnus Malmborn

Magnus Malmborn — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:37:11 +0000

Scorpio, they are not being forced to breed, they are being
punished for having teh sex.

Simple, isn’t it?

By: Scorpio

Scorpio — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:13:43 +0000

And so therefore the irresponsible and the juvenile should be forced to breed? What kind of logic is that?

By: Kyra

Kyra — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:39:32 +0000

They’re stupid.

“Unborn bayybeeees are human too, so let’s make them entitled to stuff that no other humans are entitled to. For equality!”

*is mildly sick*

Sorry. Am sort of spoiling for a fight just now, and not finding anything good to rant at.

Because the right sees Roe as judicial wack jobs denying fetues the full rights of citizens they draw a direct analog.

Full citizens get the right to other people’s bodies?

*considers the conviction rate for rape*

Oh.

By: kate

kate — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:10:26 +0000

Well I’ll make two guesses:

1)That as the Dred Scott case has been considered a horribly historic miscarriage of justice and bad rulings. So the wing-nuts and pro-liars like to think Roe v Wade to be the modern century’s great miscarriage of justice that all right thinking people want overturned.

2) That the Dred Scott case was but one reflection of what many southerners and wingers like to think the civil war was all about: state’s rights over big gubmint intrusions in good people’s business. In that the wing-nuts see the way to overturn Roe v Wade is through state by state legislation – a winger rallying cry for years, that the big gubmint keeps good (in control groups) people from running things right.

By: spiiderweb™

spiiderweb™ — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:09:29 +0000

They really did blow it on that one. Instead of being being invisible, the words might as well have been flashing in neon.

By: Beylita

Beylita — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:09:03 +0000

It declared Dred Scott to not be a person. It denied slaves as having full citizens’ rights. Because the right sees Roe as judicial wack jobs denying fetues the full rights of citizens they draw a direct analog. Dred Scott is code for Roe, so when he talks about America moving past its prejudices and law making the Dred Scott decision irrelevant he is directly calling for lawmakers to ignore Roe and just let it all get sorted out again when there’s a new court which there is now.

By: Mighty Ponygirl

Mighty Ponygirl — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:06:43 +0000

Kyra: It’s a belief that embryos and fetuses are just as human as the rest of us, just like we believed that slaves weren’t human at one time, we will come to understand that the unborn are humans too. Or something. I dunno. I haven’t had nearly enough alchohol yet tonight to start trying to untangle anti-choice rhetoric.

As for the birth control thing–I think it’s the weather-balloon so that they can start talking about putting age requirements on contraceptive purchases.

By: Kyra

Kyra — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:31:38 +0000

What the bloody blue blazes does Dred Scott have to do with abortion?!