RT @bquinnjcmo@twitter.com
So the state can mandate that a 14 year old girl carry the pregnancy forced upon her by a rapist to term and endure delivery at her age, BUT the state CANNOT mandate that same girl wear a mask at school, because that's too great a burden for the state to impose. WHAT?
@wjmaggos Pretending to be an extremely pro-life person I would say that the state isn't imposing anything on the girl, the rapist is. The state is just enforcing the "don't murder" law.
would you save the fetuses over the baby? what should be the punishment for the girl? should miscarriages be investigated? can we place legal limits on pregnant women's possibly dangerous activities? wouldn't questions of exposing oneself to COVID or the vaccines (however you want to define that) count?
to leyonhjelm is my handler.
@wjmaggos @leyonhjelm This is the fedi drama I've heard about
@valleyforge
I like the simple mental experiment of asking people whether they'd save a baby or thousands of fetuses. As the fetuses get closer to viability, honest answers on all sides change. So it's murder kinda. Doesn't rape also change what burden we think the state can impose on the girl? Isn't that worse than a mask? Isn't a mask (or even a vaccine) a reasonable imposition on our freedom to help protect others? Life is not made of the black and white that ideologues love to paint with.