Absolutely nothing, grumpy! It's the bit where it was given "in jest". I mean. I can't even. In what situation do you have unprotected sex with someone in jest?
But surely, polly, you can get your genetic material back just as soon as she has the abortion. In fact, the sooner the abortion, the sooner you get your property returned to you!
Under the current law, babies* die. You want to change the law so babies and women also die. Therefore, you want women to die. I mean, I know that you don't think that it is what you want, but it is the logical extension of the action you want to take. ...
You've just said that, without exception in your experience, women undergoing late-term abortions were making difficult, rational decisions. So why do you think that if the law changed to reflect women's rationality women would suddenly become irrational?
This is nonsense though, which is part of the reason I'm bemused by Labour's stance on the issue. (Especially because letting this be an "economy election" is pretty much the same thing as "letting National win", because most people think National knows ...
"the lesbian “potential IVF recipient who might just want to change their minds” the men who donate the sperm to the above the men who will be hounded down for years to pay child support by women who took something seriously that was given in jest." Wait, ...
Nobody's obliged to listen to everybody in the world, Rosy, and nobody owes everybody in the world a thoughtful, polite, listening ear when they make a dramatically reductive comparison. But I will say that I made every effort to engage respectfully with ...
This wasn't a well-intentioned piece of legislation, though! The reverse. It's a well-intentioned set of medical professionals who are doing their best for it.
Blondie, are you aware that the number of abortions performed in a country is not correlated with that country's legal stance on abortion? In other words: the number of abortions is pretty static across countries with similar levels of things like sex ...
That'd probably better than jumping into a thread with a really ill-thought-out and dismissive comparison. What you said is like jumping into a thread where someone's talking about their mother dying and how it made them cry in the supermarket, and saying ...
Abortion on demand *is* illegal. It is illegal to have an abortion in New Zealand unless the pregnancy will have a serious affect on the woman's health, and the last time there was a review of the law it said that the present interpretation of "serious ...
Support women in your office who might be talking about it. Mention your support for reform if it comes up in conversation and it's at all possible for you to do so. Go along to meetings. Write letters to the newspaper. Above all, be visible in your ...
If you time-traveled to 1986, do you think you would have been involved in protesting for Homosexual Law Reform? Because THAT is the last time there was a *law* affecting what gay men could do with their bodies.
"And when Labour refuses to take a public stand on this and continue to waffle" Come on. That's not having a go: that's a statement of fact. Labour won't take a public stand on this - which alienates plenty of people within the party - and Steve Chadwick's...
Which is far, far too many, no? What makes you say that?
I also can't give blood. It's annoying. It's especially annoying for gay men because it comes from systematic prejudice and it's distasteful and upsetting to be confronted with that, especially if you feel (as I do) that giving blood is a social duty. But ...
The Sydney Olympic party scene was pretty decentralised among the bars and restaurants of Darling Harbour, although they did construct a temporary 'party place' creatively using tarpaulins and 4x2 under the western off-ramp where a lot of winning athletes ...
Will they have Water Police cruising around Key's 'Party Central' to fish out bedraggled drunks and celebrities who cannot keep it down after falling off the dock in a fit of patriotic over-enthusiasm ?
Banks has been clutching at straws ever since Len Brown overtook him in the polls. What's next, David ?
You mean, its taken you this long to figure it out ?
I heard him interviewed by Kathryn Ryan this morning. Impressive. How are the numbers stacking up ?
Santi: why so ? It might be ..
I read your post over at NRT and I can understand the sentiment, but are you seriously suggesting the CTU should just abandon all its other plans, carefully planned and developed through the proper democratic processes with its 39 affiliates, just to ...
@scribe: I looked at those photos and I'll tell you what, they sure look alien to me. (I say this because it appears no-one else is going to and you won't shut up until someone does.) Cute enough but hey, lambs are pretty cute too. also delicious. Dumb ox ...
I'm also missing the part where anyone explained - rather than assumed - how a nine month baby/foetus is counted as human life, while a nine week one isn't. Just as a start, a newborn baby isn't putting anyone else's life at risk in order to keep living; ...
@scribe. If someone is really pro-choice, then wouldn?t they want women to make an informed choice? You know, have them receive information about the development of the child in her womb. Apart from the clear elements of emotional pressure and guilt you ...
Yeah, no. Spock is cool! JKey is not worthy!
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