Anderson Smith

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain Not at all. It simply means I believe it’s the state’s role to protect civil rights, not to enforce morality in every social domain. And that I believe the right to bodily autonomy supersedes any claims a fetus might have on a person for life-giving support

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@ponyfaceddog @PYeerk Reminds me of this

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain If a woman is raped by a family member you genuinely don’t think she should be able to get a very early, first-trimester abortion?

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain That’s not moral relativism. Idk what you’re talking about

No one’s denying lots of women use abortion irresponsibly

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain Of course they might. But it just is a fact that miscarriages have led to medical emergencies and even death because of these bills, and there are any number of women who’ve died bc they couldn’t get timely care bc of docs wanting to avoid legal risk

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain nothing, but I’d never call that a person

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain reasoning ability, the ability to have preferences etc. Now, if your view stems from Christianity - fair enough. But from a rationalist PoV, a zygote or embryo lacks everything that’s important about personhood except genetic material & potential for personhood. That’s not

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain their organs for 9 months

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain regularly delayed well past the safe point to accord with heartbeat bills.

There are ofc other good reasons oppose abortion bans beyond medical emergencies. I also don’t want the state dictating to anyone that they’re required to sacrifice their bodily autonomy & donate use of

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain What do you mean? It’s morally wrong to kill lots of things that aren’t people

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@MadderomMichael @gate_captain Obviously not if my position is totally uncorrelated to my other political views on the conservative/liberal spectrum

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@MadderomMichael Putting aside the fact that “baby” is not a formal medical term, but a lay term—and is almost always defined as a post-birth newborn/infant—the point is that using the word baby could just as easily be a rhetorical, manipulative of the sort OP is describing

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain Not a moral relativist. I certainly don’t believe abortion is generally moral, and I would never have one, but I also don’t trust the state to dictate when someone should have to risk their life in the case of a high-risk pregnancy

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain We don’t all regurgitate the approved platform of positions dictated to us by thought leaders

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain Annnd an 11th time he flees lol

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain Annnd a 10th duck lol

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain haha annnd a 9th duck

[Anderson Smith @johnofgauntlet]

@gate_captain Annnd a 7th duck! Going for the record?