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My LJ has gotten really boring
Jan. 22nd, 2007 10:11 pmMy LJ has gotten really boring since I started school back up. The photos are still okay, I suppose, and the CWUs I manage about once a week, but I used to write stuff for here and now I kind of don't. I spend all that time on botany instead. Now you're lucky if you get a bunch of links.
And I want to write something about this, too, but I really need instead to be working on botany or Japanese vocabulary and katakana, so I don't have time. I'll summarise a few things anyway:
I'm pro-choice, and I'm not "personally anti-abortion" as a codicil. I think legal abortion has been a net social good, period, and I don't think, from a rationalist standpoint, you can make a real coherent argument otherwise. I think laws stating that women need to be "informed about abortion" - usually meaning "lectured in theology masquerading as science" - before getting an abortion is creepy and paternalistic in the worst of senses. I think the idea that a zygote is a human being entitled to the rights of a child is benightedly stupid if sincerely held, and sophistic, at best, for the majority of people who claim such a belief. I think the idea that women should die or have their health ruined for someone else's religious beliefs - the "better two tragedies than one murder" school, as put pretty much into law in South Dakota - is obscene, and convinces me that the holders of such beliefs consider a woman to be less of a person than even a diploid cell floating in fluid which will die on its own 70% of the time.
I think enforced pregnancy is slavery.
And I think I should be able to have these opinions without being accused of hating babies, or having to append a codicil that I don't like forced abortions either. That's why it's called a choice, and why it's a freedom, not a mandate. If you can't tell those apart, you shouldn't even be talking to me, because you're some kind of reproductive Stalinist, and I'm certainly not interested in talking to you.
Anyway. Now back to vocabulary. Fun!
And I want to write something about this, too, but I really need instead to be working on botany or Japanese vocabulary and katakana, so I don't have time. I'll summarise a few things anyway:
I'm pro-choice, and I'm not "personally anti-abortion" as a codicil. I think legal abortion has been a net social good, period, and I don't think, from a rationalist standpoint, you can make a real coherent argument otherwise. I think laws stating that women need to be "informed about abortion" - usually meaning "lectured in theology masquerading as science" - before getting an abortion is creepy and paternalistic in the worst of senses. I think the idea that a zygote is a human being entitled to the rights of a child is benightedly stupid if sincerely held, and sophistic, at best, for the majority of people who claim such a belief. I think the idea that women should die or have their health ruined for someone else's religious beliefs - the "better two tragedies than one murder" school, as put pretty much into law in South Dakota - is obscene, and convinces me that the holders of such beliefs consider a woman to be less of a person than even a diploid cell floating in fluid which will die on its own 70% of the time.
I think enforced pregnancy is slavery.
And I think I should be able to have these opinions without being accused of hating babies, or having to append a codicil that I don't like forced abortions either. That's why it's called a choice, and why it's a freedom, not a mandate. If you can't tell those apart, you shouldn't even be talking to me, because you're some kind of reproductive Stalinist, and I'm certainly not interested in talking to you.
Anyway. Now back to vocabulary. Fun!
