Quantum Windbag
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What an out of touch ignoramus he is!As soon as Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his running mate, the common wisdom coalesced around the idea that Romney was trying to shore up support with the Tea Party base on economic issues. But Ryan's extreme social conservatism likely had something to do with the pick as well. As Michelle Goldberg notes at the Daily Beast, Ryan runs far to the right even of most Republicans on the issue of choice. Indeed, his statements and votes on the issue start to seem like Ryan sincerely believes that a fertilized egg has more rights than an actual woman with a real brain and feelings.
Goldberg looks over this lengthy piece written by Ryan explaining his views on reproductive rightsa piece where he never even bothers to mention womenand she concludes, "To him, a womans claim to bodily autonomy or self-determination doesnt merit even cursory consideration." Just in case he's left any doubt in the reader's mind that he simply doesn't acknowledge women as people, Ryan concludes that the reasons liberals are pro-choice is because we find children repulsive:
.At the core, todays pro-choice liberals are deeply pessimistic. They denigrate life and offer fear of the present and the futurefear of too many choices and too many children. Rather than seeing children and human beings as a benefit, the pro-choice position implies that they are a burden. Despite the pro-choice label, liberals stance on this subject actually diminishes choices, lowers goals, and leads us to live with less. That includes reducing the number of human beings who can make choices
This paragraph makes no sense unless you approach it with the assumption that the categories "women" and "human beings" are mutually exclusive. In order for the system of mandatory childbearing that he proposes to not decrease choices, women must be creatures who can make people but cannot be people. Of course, his belief that support for abortion rights is about child-hating instead of support for women is easy enough to disprove with the facts. More than 60 percent of women having abortions are already mothers, and most of the rest wish to be someday. When women offer their reasons for having abortions, "I dislike children and don't want to be around them" doesn't even rate high enough to make it into the data. Mostly the women fear that it's not a good time in their lives, and about half of them don't want to end up as a single mother.
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Damn, you are even dumber than I thought. Do you honestly believe your opinion counts more than anyone else?