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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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YOU ARE THE REASON
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@squirrellyfries
These are from a character design class I took years ago. We had to come up with some kind of story pitch and then design characters based on that. Mine was steampunk in which the main character was an inventor with a pet kinkajou. Kinkajous are adorable, google them.
Had some fun designing a keyblade for myself. The first in a possible line of art/animation inspired keyblades. Not sure yet what I’m going to name this one. Possibilities include “Rough Draft,” “Work of Heart”, and “Spirit Forge”, though I might save that last one for one that looks more epic.
One of these days I’m gonna get my nuzlocke comic together..
civil war spoilers: tony stark wins but steve rogers catches the snitch
laughing so hard right now.
A few of my favorite things.
So do I have to tag this with EVERYTHING in it?
After the newest Civil War trailer came out, I bought a subscription to Marvel Unlimited and binge-read a bunch of Spider-Man comics. And then last night I went to sleep while watching my DVD of The Spectacular Spider-Man series. I’m not letting this mini-obsession pass without getting some good action pose practice in. The webhead has the best dynamic moves.
Combine the spiritual warfare of The Exorcist, the biological horror of Alien, the medieval romanticism of Braveheart, and you have THE BOUND. The film tells the story of a veteran Knight and his precocious Squire, who, while traveling on pilgrimage to Rome, suddenly find themselves waging spiritual and terrestrial warfare against a malevolent demoness dwelling in the woodlands of medieval France.
Hey guys! I did the storyboards for this crowdfunding pitch. Give it a watch and support the final product!
Religious Followers
I am curious about your opinions about an issue. My husband and I have very similar political/social views. Sometimes we disagree on minor details though. Today we were on the topic of abortion. We are both very pro-life. However, I’ve developed the belief that if a doctor tells someone that they will die or is highly likely to die during childbirth, they should have the option to abort. I think that belief is still heart breaking and would be a situation that I would have a hard time choosing myself.
My husband on the other hand believes that the option shouldn’t be there at all, even if the doctor says they will die. His reasoning is that it’s nobody’s place to play God, and that God decides who lives and who dies.
I’m just curious on the thoughts of my religious followers.
I’m not one of your followers, but I hope you don’t mind me throwing in my two cents. Your husband is right in the sense that abortion - as we define it - is never alright in any circumstances. That means that the direct, intentional ending of the child’s life in the womb is never a moral action to take. However, you are right in that this doesn’t mean we ought to sit idly by and let the mother die. Medical professionals are indeed morally allowed to do what they can to save the woman’s life, even if it means the child will, unintentionally and tragically, be killed in the process. The key here is to treat the unborn child with human dignity, and all medical procedures should target the medical problem, not the child. Two lives are at stake here. The child deserves to live just as much as the mother does, and both should be saved if possible. Unfortunately, however, it is not always possible. I can’t claim to be an expert in everything that can go wrong during a pregnancy, but one example I hear quite often is that of an ectopic pregnancy; where instead of implanting in the uterus walls, the zygote ends up implanting in the fallopian tube and growing there instead. This problem can (but doesn’t always) become life-threatening. If this is the case and there’s no other feasible options, it is certainly morally licit to remove the child from the tube (or with the tube), carefully and respectfully. If we happen to have the technology to save the child’s life after he/she is removed from the womb, then hurrah! They both can live. But if we don’t and the child dies, it is a tragedy rather than a murder. Same goes for a cancerous uterus: you can remove the uterus and the child inside it because it needs to be done, even though the child will most likely die. Or if a mother’s life needs to be saved by means of a heavy dose of drugs that will end up killing the baby. So in other scenarios the same core values should apply. Target the medical problem, not the child, and save the child’s life if possible. I’m not going to pretend these aren’t very difficult moral problems to navigate. Kind of like those “sinking airplane, 12 people going to drown and only room for 8 in the lifeboat, who do you pick?” sort of scenarios. But you’ll notice none of the possibly proper answers to that scenario include “put eight people in the boat and then dismember the rest with forceps.” Some links: http://americanrtl.org/life-of-the-mother-exception http://www.feministsforlife.org/what-about-the-life-of-the-mother/ http://www.abort73.com/end_abortion/is_abortion_ever_justified/
Tumblr: ableism is a huge problem
Tumblr: it's ok to abort your child if it has Down syndrome.
Reblog if you are a woman and pro-life
To show that we aren’t a bunch of old white men
Come on, bud!
Pro-life Master Post
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of repeating myself when it comes to debates about abortion. I’ve created this master post to provide links that refute the most common pro-choice arguments.
But the fetus isn’t even a life. It’s a clump of cells. It doesn’t matter.
3 reasons why a fetus is a human being
Straight from the embryology textbook:
A zygote [fertilized egg] is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.
Even more proof that life begins at fertilization
What is the unborn?
Okay, it’s a human, but it’s not a person.
The shockingly bloody history of legal personhood
From Personhood:
A criterion for personhood that depends on certain functions of human activity implies that individuals who perform the chosen function more excellently should have higher human value. Individuals suffering from severe Alzheimer’s disease or under general anesthesia, who may not be self-aware or able to create future expectations, could no longer be considered persons. We know, however, that the human under general anesthesia retains his personal identity despite his temporary lack of self-awareness, so his personhood must cohere in his underlying nature. Legally speaking, “persons” are guaranteed the fundamental rights of individuals, including the right to life. Historically, abuses of personhood have led to the genocide of groups deemed “non-persons” by more powerful political or social groups. For example, up until the 14th Amendment, African-American slaves were legally considered three-fifths of a person. Native Americans were exploited because they were treated as less than full persons. The racial distinctions used to label these groups as “non-persons” were conveniently invented to justify the violation of human rights.
Justifications for abortion are inherently ableist
What makes human valuable?
But it’s basically just a parasite!
Why the embryo or fetus is not a parasite
You’re just against it because you’re (religious, Republican, conservative, etc.), but I’m not (religious, Republican, conservative, etc.).
Secular Pro-life
Life Matters Journal
Feminists for Life
Pro-life OBGYNs
Pro-life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians
Democrats for Life
Pro-life Humanists
New Wave Feminists
Pro-life Pagans
Pro-life Socialists
Why should non-Christians care about abortion?
But if you make abortion illegal, women will die! Haven’t you heard of back alley abortions?
The truth about back alley abortions
More about the coat hanger myth
Refuting the back alley myth
But what about cases of rape or incest?
Rape and incest victims reject abortion
Hard cases, exceptional choices
An honest look at the rape and incest exceptions
A pro-life answer to the rape question
Answering the rape exception
Inside the world of anti-abortion activists who were conceived in rape or incest
While on the topic, the pro-life community must rally in support of the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act
What if the woman is going to die?
Is abortion ever necessary to save the life of the mother?
What about the health of the mother?
What if the child is going to have a short life anyways?
Hard cases: Jeannie Wallace French
Hard cases: Tracy Haugen
Hard cases: Diane Simoni
Hard cases: Angelica Talavera
Abortion is needed to prevent overpopulation.
Simply stated: no. It’s not.
Women don’t regret their abortions!
Silent No More awareness campaign
Testimonies from post-abortive women
Abortion Recovery
Abortion workers regret their experience in the industry
Well, if you’re against abortion, why aren’t you against [insert other human rights injustice]?
We are against all forms of aggressive violence. That includes, but is not limited to: unjust war, abortion, euthanasia, slavery, torture, rape, embryonic stem cell research, human trafficking, abuse, sexism, racism, police brutality, suicide, etc.
Check out organizations like Life Matters Journal (read the most recent issue here!)and Consistent Life to find out more about this consistent approach to human rights issues.
That being said, not every pro-life organization is against all of the above. Dismissing their arguments against abortion because they happen to not be against some other form of injustice is an ad hominem fallacy.
Why ad hominem fallacies derail conversations
If you’re gonna be against abortion, you better be doing [insert some charitable action].
This is similar to the previous argument. Dismissing someone’s argument because you feel that they aren’t “doing enough” is another ad hominem fallacy.
That being said, pro-life organizations do a whole lot to support those in need:
Catholic Charities USA (which is obviously against abortion) is #13 on the Forbes list of the 50 largest US charities.
Pregnant on Campus supports pregnant or parenting students and provides them with resources.
Abortion Recovery helps men and women who have been affected by abortion.
Project Rachel also helps post-abortive women.
Option Line provides free counseling for pregnant women.
Pregnancy resource centers provide free ultrasounds, pregnancy tests, STI screening, parenting classes, and material assistance.
Pro-life organizations also assist in the adoption process.
You can’t be a feminist if you’re pro-life! Being pro-life is anti-woman.
That’s a straw man argument. Straw men make for poor arguments.
Besides, try to tell that to our feminist foremothers who were anti-abortion.
And finally, the most popular pro-choice argument:
My body, my choice!
Why “It’s my body, I can do what I want!” won’t do
De Facto Guardian and Abortion
Why pregnancy is not comparable to forced organ donation
Again, you can’t compare pregnancy and forced organ donation
Dismantling the “bodily rights” argument without using the responsibility argument
From secularprolifeprofamily:
When you realize why the political pro-life/pro-choice divide truly exists, the whole “bodily autonomy” argument falls apart.At its core, it’s not merely about protecting fetuses or not. It’s about whether abortion should be a legally sanctioned medical procedure.And the right to bodily autonomy doesn’t guarantee any sort of medical procedure no matter what.In most jurisdictions, no practitioner will legally give breast implants to an underage girl. Surgeons refuse to amputate the limbs of BIID sufferers. Are those infringements upon bodily autonomy? Of course not. Nobody is fundamentally entitled to procedures that may be irresponsible or unethical.
The False Strength of the ‘Bodily Autonomy’ Argument for Abortion
From this
Aw man I love this :’)
Why abortion is not considered murder?
Because the life of a fetus is considered the responsibility of the person carrying it. If they choose to abort it, then that’s their lawful right to do so. Only a person can be murdered. The unborn is not considered a “person” - a fetus does not have equal status with the person carrying it until it can exist outside of the womb.
The shockingly bloody history of legal personhood
From Personhood:
A criterion for personhood that depends on certain functions of human activity implies that individuals who perform the chosen function more excellently should have higher human value. Individuals suffering from severe Alzheimer’s disease or under general anesthesia, who may not be self-aware or able to create future expectations, could no longer be considered persons. We know, however, that the human under general anesthesia retains his personal identity despite his temporary lack of self-awareness, so his personhood must cohere in his underlying nature. Legally speaking, “persons” are guaranteed the fundamental rights of individuals, including the right to life. Historically, abuses of personhood have led to the genocide of groups deemed “non-persons” by more powerful political or social groups. For example, up until the 14th Amendment, African-American slaves were legally considered three-fifths of a person. Native Americans were exploited because they were treated as less than full persons. The racial distinctions used to label these groups as “non-persons” were conveniently invented to justify the violation of human rights.
Justifications for abortion are inherently ableist
What makes human valuable?
The worst part about parents who don’t vaccinate is an underlying prejudice against the autistic; they’d rather risk a dead child instead of an autistic child.
Bill Nye the Strawman Guy talks abortion and fails miserably
He’s done it with the Constitution, he’s done it with economics, he’s done it with global warming and now he’s done it again. This time, with abortion. That’s right, everyone’s favorite washed-up-children’s-entertainer-turned-nutty-left-wing-activist, Mr. William Nye, has yet again tried and failed to use his apparent vague familiarity with “science” to advance a hot-button political issue. Oh joy.
Evidently the world simply couldn’t wait another minute to find out just where he stood when it came to abortion (I know I sure was waiting with bated breath) so, thankfully he made a video subjecting the world to his opinion telling us. Because #science.
In this video, he uses several straw men talking points that I thought I should probably rebut (although it’s pretty much like shooting fish in a barrel). The folks over at Red State put together the list of the straw men talking points he uses in the video:
A large number of humans in the blastocyst stage of development fail to implant in the uterus and subsequently die.
And? So what? It is completely illogical to suggest that just because some people die at a certain stage of life, that it should be legal to kill all those who don’t die during that same stage. That’s insane. Lots of people with cancer die. Should it be legal to kill cancer survivors?
If we respect the dignity of blastocyst humans, it follows that we need to imprison men and women whose babies fail to implant.
It follows that we should imprison parents whose children die from health problems? What is he even talking about?
The typical pro-life advocate is a man of European descent trying to tell women what to do.
Is that why 57% of *women* consider themselves “pro-life”? And this glaring incorrect statement aside, again I say so what? If a person or group of people are right (or wrong) about an issue, who cares what their gender or skin color is?
Pro-life laws are based on an interpretation of a book written 5000 years ago.
This is so hilariously predictable. The Bible doesn’t mention abortion. It does, however, mention murder. Does Mr. Nye oppose the murder of innocent, autonomous adults (I assume he does)? If so, why does he oppose it? Is it because of a book that was written 5,000 years ago? If so, he’s a hypocrite. If not, then he’s admitting that it’s possible to find things morally repugnant independent of the Bible. Furthermore, the entire crux of the issue revolves around the question of when life begins so that we can determine whether or not abortion is murder. Regardless of one’s religious views, if one is opposed to murder and also believes that life begins at conception, that person must be opposed to abortion if they are to remain intellectually consistent.
Pro-life advocates believe that every act of sexual intercourse should result in a baby. Legislation to restrict abortion is based on this unscientific belief.
Where is he getting this stuff? I have literally never one time ever heard a pro-life advocate say that they believe that every act of sexual intercourse should result in a baby. It’s as if he’s just making crap up as he goes along.
You can’t tell someone else what to do.
Excuse me? This is coming from the man who wants the government to regulate virtually every aspect of the lives of its citizens.
Abortion is needed because a woman might not like the man who impregnated her and might not want anything to do with his genes, especially if she has been raped.
So the answer is kill the innocent child. Seems logical.
There are more important issues than abortion.
Not if abortion is murder.
Science has taught us a lot about life before birth. Pro-life advocates are not scientists and do not know what happens after an egg is fertilized.
Umm…He’s not a scientist either. He’s a freaking mechanical engineer turned children’s TV star turned far-left political shill. Oh and he’s absolutely right. Science has taught us quite a bit about life before birth. It has taught us that unborn children have DNA that is different from both their mother and their father. It has taught us that unborn children can feel pain. It has taught us that unborn children can think and dream. It has taught us that unborn babies can learn and remember. It has taught us that unborn babies are autonomous and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It has taught us that life begins at conception.
Teaching abstinence is ineffective. Closing abortion clinics and not giving women access to birth control will not lead to a healthy society.
And the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. And the Earth is roughly 8,000 miles in diameter. See? I can throw out random information too. #irrelevant
I understand that you have deeply religious beliefs that give you respect for what you perceive as unborn people, but look at the facts and don’t tell women what to do.
This is a purposeful mischaracterization. First of all, as far as the government is concerned, I could not care less what a woman does with her body. In fact, as a libertarian, I’d bet I have a more “liberal” view of what people should be allowed to do with their own bodies than Mr. Nye does (Hint: They should be able to do *whatever* they want to do so long as they don’t infringe upon the rights of someone else).
Pro-life laws are in nobody’s best interest.
Except for the babies who are, you know, being murdered.
We have other problems to solve.
Indeed. But abortion is our most glaring moral failure, and it’s time to fix that. That doesn’t mean we don’t also work on other problems, but we can’t continue pretending like unborn life isn’t life when we know that it is. How do we know that?
Because of actual science, something Bill Nye really needs to brush up on.
