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It seems that pro lifers dont understand the car crash/organ donation analogy so allow me to explain.

The car crash is the sex. That is the physical activity you've taken part in to create the situation.

The injured driver who needs an organ transplant to live is the fetus. They, in this scenario, are relying on you to give up part of your body to keep them alive.

The decision to donate that organ to the injured driver is the pregnancy.

If you choose to give the driver your organ, they live. That would be childbirth.

If you refuse, and the driver dies, that would be the abortion.

A further explanation: in order for a conceived embryo to survive, it requires the use of your organs for nine months. This is a requirement. The embryo will not survive without this.

Which is analogous to giving an injured person one of your organs to save their life. You allow them the use of your organ, and they live.

What happens after the surgery, in this analogy, beyond the life or death of the injured driver, is irrelevant. That is where the analogy ends. Similar to how the medical procedures for both childbirth and abortion are completed once the goal has been met: the goal being to end the pregnancy.

So when pro lifers say the car crash analogy doesn't represent the argument correctly, what they're actually saying is that they've misinterpreted the analogy. Perhaps deliberately.

And of course, its not a perfect 1:1 example, but that's sort of the point of an analogy. By any measure, its better than their "you wake up attached to a celebrity" routine.

I hope this makes sense. Now will you stop claiming it isn't a fair analogy?

br1ttn1b1tch

Controversial opinion?

I love how "anti-maskers" are all about "my body my choice" when it comes to wearing a simple face covering to potentially protect others from germs...but not when it comes to allowing access to contraceptives or safe, legal abortions.

I also love how these same people easily see how making guns illegal won't eliminate them...yet think that making abortions illegal will somehow prevent them...

Cause you know, there's this thing called a black market. And black market abortions were...scary to say the least...

I could go on about how the idea that "life begins at contraception" is actually quite a new interpretation from updated translations of key bible passages, and until 50 years ago, evangelicals believed that life began at first breath...but maybe that's enough for today...

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/religion-dispatches/2019/09/27/when-the-biblical-view-for-evangelicals-was-that-life-begins-at-birth/

friendlyneighborhoodstreetmedic

Chemical weapons aftercare Avoid entering the house with contaminated clothing. If possible, remove contaminated clothes and put in a plastic bag. Avoid touching other people, pets, furniture, etc. Take a cool or tepid shower. Use soap. Wash clothes through a machine twice with strong detergent Your liver is helping break down the chemical irritants You can support your liver by not drinking alcohol for a few days after the event. Herbs like dandelion and milk thistle will support the liver, too. Take care of yourself emotionally. What helps you deal with pain, grief, and anger? Talking to some trusted friends (who were with you or not) can be a helpful way to process. If you can, avoid watching footage of the event (at least for a few days). It can be retraumatizing.

anarchapella

In the shower, make sure you’re using a very gentle soap like dove, nothing activating with mint, tea tree, or any other herbal agents that are usually tingly.

wadey-wilson

twoofcups

gordon ramsey: is the food good here?

underpaid server:

My favourite thing about that show is how he treats servers. It was also the source of some very intense fantasies when I was a barista of him busting into my cafe, calling my boss a fucking idiot, then taking me against the broken dishwasher.

Perfection 100

Please yall add the source. The yellow and pink suits were both handmade by thredcountt.

Yellow is @thredcountt on insta

Pink is @peachieteas on insta

White is @tricksterkarkat on insta

Black is @cinnabara on insta

Cosplay is a form of art too so please don’t repost anything without credit. Its disrespectful.

goddessofwaifus

Reblog this version please! It has the credits owed to the user who made them.

modernsuperhero

THESE ARE SICK!!! I LOVE THEM!

relentless-endurance

@darthimperius

atheostic

If you think that life starts at conception but don’t think abortion should be illegal you’re pro-choice.

If you think people shouldn’t get abortions after the baby has a heartbeat but wouldn’t want to force people to follow your stance you’re pro-choice.

If you wouldn’t personally ever have an abortion but wouldn’t want anyone to be forced to stay pregnant either you’re pro-choice.

Only people who think forcing people to remain pregnant is a moral thing to do are pro-life anti-choice.

lagonegirl

Bishop Curry V may be young (10 years old, to be precise), but the little kid from Texas has some big ideas. He’s currently working on a device that could help prevent children from dying in hot cars.

The number of children who died in hot cars increased across the country last year, and Texas had the highest number of cases. Sadly for Bishop, the issue also hits close to home because a baby died in a minivan last summer outside a home near his own family’s home in McKinney.

Bishop was inspired to create a device he calls “Oasis,” which would attach to a car seat and detect if a child is left inside the vehicle, prompting it to blow cool air until parents or the police are notified.

“It would be a dream to have lots of inventions that would save many lives,” the precocious 10-year-old told the news station.

source

A lot of people don’t realize how easy it is to leave something in a hot car. It’s easy to forget something when it’s not in your daily routine, especially if it’s asleep or under a blanket or something. This is a nightmare. I don’t have kids myself, but I can absolutely understand how this could happen- everyone’s sick so you’re probably kind of out of it, you run in thinking you’re just going to be a minute, get distracted with the task at hand… and then your child dies in a horrific way because of it…

I’m all for any methods or technologies that can help prevent it from turning tragic.

#BlackPride #BlackInventors

soofyanstevens

THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST WAY TO WAKE UP holy shit I am so proud of this child I wanna give them a huge hug

lagonegirl

His GoFundMe is here: https://www.gofundme.com/endhotcardeaths

tundrakatiebean

He only has raised $2,950 as of 2/2/17

Let’s boost the hell out of this

whitepeopletwitter

heyheyrich-deactivated20220813

This is actually a fascinating concept called the marginal propensity of consumption. It BASICALLY means that each additional dollar to a poor person (Like someone on minimum wage) is comparatively more valuable than each additional dollar to a wealthy person (like a millionaire or billionaire) because the poor person is more likely to go spend it on a good or service whereas the wealthy person will stick it in an offshore account.

With the poor person, it will continue changing hands within the economy and get spent more often, leading to higher economic output. The wealthy person takes that dollar out of the economy by sticking it in a bank account to grow their wealth, and the dollar effectively becomes useless and stops changing hands.

twitblr

Very Normal behavior in a Very Normal country

forcedfarce44

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

yes 2020 has sucked like a ravenous kirby but in november we finally get to vote that hateful orange turd out of office so eyes on the prize ya’lls

you-cant-expect-me-to-adult

Ok but.. who are we voting in??? Both candidates suck. Gaud help I’ve never voted before.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

ffs will someone PLEASE explain why voting in another shoddy white male liberal is VASTLY DIFFERENT from allowing a fascist republican to remain in office?

basically you’re voting for the ADMINISTRATION and the PARTY not the person. also: Biden is crummy. Trump is actively killing hundreds of thousands of people. There is a fucking difference. Not recognizing that difference is what got us Trump in the first place. It’s the difference between a landlord who refuses to perform repairs, and one who ACTIVELY SETS YOUR HOUSE ON FIRE. Do not let let the republican propaganda machine convince you they are the same.

prince-atom

Biden believes in the system. He’ll staff the State Department and release his tax returns and listen to his daily briefing.

He won’t send anonymous stormtroopers to snatch people off the street and hold them for hours.

He won’t spend all his time every day on Twitter and react poorly to every single word that isn’t glowing with praise.

There are SO MANY differences between them.

lyricwritesprose

If your choices are half an onion in a baggy that’s been in the fridge a bit too long and developed some mold, and a napalm-filled flaming dumpster that is barrelling at ninety miles an hour towards an elementary school playground, you have the moral obligation to vote for the moldy onion.

And then you support the fresher onions in the Onion House and Onion Senate, and do activism to make the moldy onion scrape some of its mold off, and by the way the fact that people were supporting fresher onions in the onion primary is already paying off in that the moldy onion’s policies have noticeably less mold than they might have a few years ago … look, this analogy has thoroughly gotten away from me, but I hope the first part was clear enough. Moldy Onion 2020, let’s go.

virgomoon-caregiver

Moldy Onion 2020

antique-scarecrow

Moldy Onion 2020

biglawbear

Friendly reminder that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 87 years old and has cancer for the fifth time and whoever wins in November will likely get to appoint her replacement who will sit on the Supreme Court for the next 30-40 years

Biden has committed that he will appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court

Trump appointed a rapist who wants to overturn Roe v Wade (among other things)

Y'all want a badass Justice like Sonia Sotomayor or another rapist who wants to destroy your rights?

You’re not just voting for a President for four years, you’re voting for judges for the next forty

bemusedlybespectacled

“oh but my PRINCIPLES demand that I don’t vote for anyone who’s the lesser evil! I shouldn’t have to vote for any evil!”

if your principles don’t involve harm reduction (or involve INCREASING harm in the vain hope that one day maybe people will realize they’re being harmful and change things), then your principles are crap

if your principles allow for stuff like armed coups but not for voting for a moderate, then your principles are crap and you’re also a hypocrite

katarh-mest

PLEASE VOTE BIDEN FOR HARM REDUCTION 2020

beeftea78-deactivated20200113

Throwback to the time my poor German teacher had to explain the concept of formal and informal pronouns to a class full of Australians and everyone was scandalised and loudly complained “why can’t I treat everyone the same?” “I don’t want to be a Sie!” “but being friendly is respectful!” “wouldn’t using ‘du’ just show I like them?” until one guy conceded “I suppose maybe I’d use Sie with someone like the prime minister, if he weren’t such a cunt” and my teacher ended up with her head in her hands saying “you are all banned from using du until I can trust you”

deflare

God help Japanese teachers in Australia.

languageoclock

if this isnt an accurate representation of australia idk what is

derinthescarletpescatarian

Australia’s reverse-formality respect culture is fascinating. We don’t even really think about it until we try to communicate or learn about another culture and the rules that are pretty standard for most of the world just feel so wrong. I went to America this one time and I kept automatically thinking that strangers using ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ were sassing me.

Australians could not be trusted with a language with ingrained tiers of formal address. The most formal forms would immediately become synonyms for ‘go fuck yourself’ and if you weren’t using the most informal version possible within three sentences of meeting someone they’d take it to mean you hated them.

hollowedskin

100% true.

the difference between “‘scuse me” and “excuse me” is a fistfight

fozmeadows

See also: the Australian habit of insulting people by way of showing affection, which other English-speakers also do, but not in a context where deescalating the spoken invective actively increases the degree of offence intended, particularly if you’ve just been affectionately-insulting with someone else.

By which I mean: if you’ve just called your best mate an absolute dickhead, you can’t then call a hated politician something that’s (technically) worse, like a total fuckwit, because that would imply either that you were really insulting your mate or that you like the politician. Instead, you have to use a milder epithet, like bastard, to convey your seething hatred for the second person. But if your opening conversational gambit is slagging someone off, then it’s acceptable to go big (”The PM’s a total cockstain!”) at the outset.

Also note that different modifiers radically change the meaning of particular insults. Case in point: calling someone a fuckin’ cunt is a deadly insult, calling someone a mad cunt is a compliment, and calling someone a fuckin’ mad cunt means you’re literally in awe of them. Because STRAYA.

beben-eleben

For future reference.

mollimassacre-deactivated201408

Thank you.

fuckyeahifightlikeagirl

For those who would ever need it. -C

rapeculturerealities

reblogging here because i can see this being relevant to anyone who’s ever tried to get out of an abusive relationship

directorlazard-deactivated20171

Reblogging because that last comment made me reread the whole thing in a new light and realize this could be vital information. So, putting it out there for everyone, and hoping no one ever really needs it.

omghotmemes

I laughed way too hard at this

mezimraky

in case anyone is looking through the notes trying to find the original artist it’s will mcphail !! feel free to check out his site but also here are some other things he made too !!