Thinking about abortion now a crime.

Psy-4 wrote:

A bunch of pretentious shit.

You're continually missing the point. The woman was wrongfully arrested and accused of a crime she didn't commit. What part of that are you not getting?


Also, guys. I'm 99.99999% certain Ayezur's post was sarcastic. Really.

Why will no one weep for my lost appendix

Chaltab wrote:

...and you don't remember it in the slightest. Why are you whining about it now?

Dude. What. The fuck.

It is a PIECE OF THE BODY that DOES NOT GROW BACK*. That's like saying "Sure, your parents had one of your fingers amputated without your permission for purely aesthetic reasons, but you can't remember it, so suck it up." Best be trollan, Chaltab, best be trollan.

As far as the "don't BAAAAW about male circumcision because female circumcision is much worse" thing goes, don't. Just don't. It's apples and oranges, not because of the extent of the damage caused, but because of the extremely different reasons for the two problems. And yes, they ARE both problems. There's just no bloody point about making it into a pissing contest between the two because they are not related. They're separate cultural issues with separate cultural motivations and separate cultural backgrounds. Okay?

how the hell did we get from abortion wank to circumcision wank anyway KelinciHutan is going to be displeased

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*Yes, I'm aware that the skin can be coaxed into a kind of new foreskin, but it's not the same thing--if I understand it correctly, there are particular nerves native to the foreskin that can't be replaced or regenerated.

Mafiosa wrote:

Why will no one weep for my lost appendix

Because chances are if your appendix was amputated it was a danger to your health and well-being.

Chaltab wrote:

...and you don't remember it in the slightest. Why are you whining about it now?

I'd retort with some sort of roofie-ed rape victims or repressed memories of child abuse comment, but... nah. I highly doubt it'd matter.

And I'm generally anti-circ for the sole reason that it's just become so normal and so common to slice off a chunk of the penis, almost as if to not do that is so incredibly weird and revolutionary and is simply just not done. It really creeps me out.

TheHedonist wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

Why will no one weep for my lost appendix

Because chances are if your appendix was amputated it was a danger to your health and well-being.

I COULD CHANGE HIM!

Mafiosa wrote:

TheHedonist wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

Why will no one weep for my lost appendix

Because chances are if your appendix was amputated it was a danger to your health and well-being.

I COULD CHANGE HIM!

That will just lead you to a vicious cycle that I cannot condone or enable

I was kidding. STOP IT!

STOP IT RITE NAO OR GOD HELP ME I'LL TURN THIS FORUM AROUND!!1!!

The Alien from Uranus wrote:

You're continually missing the point.

I thought people around here knew better than to fling accusations of 'missing the point' at me. Yep, at no point was arguing the legal side, while keeping quiet about the ethical side intentional, nope.

The Alien from Uranus wrote:

The woman was wrongfully arrested and accused of a crime she didn't commit. What part of that are you not getting?

The part where you are so sure that "she didn't commit" the crime. Since the fall took place "after an upsetting phone conversation with her estranged husband" and she described her situation with "I was alone, pregnant with two young kids, with no family around or support", it could be argued either way.

Let's just admit that you have a problem with the law that enables this entire situation to be legally sound. You yourself posted more about your pro-choice views than the situation itself.

And no, I don't really feel like joining you in rolling around, spewing the same old tired pro-choice stuff I agree with, if for no other reason that I'm Canadian and my pointless internet rambling would have even less impact on Iowa's state laws than yours.

Mafiosa wrote:

>implying

Please don't spread 4chan memes. They're the internet form of herpes.

TheHermit wrote:

Please don't spread 4chan memes. They're the internet form of herpes.

Some are better than others. >implying is a good one because it works as wank shorthand, which we're in dire need of around here.

Cut wank?

Hey did you guys know that American condoms don't often fit on British cocks?

also circumcision really just grosses me out

seriously why would you cut bits off yourself

ew ew ew

I can't believe people are being arrested for their THOUGHTS now.

"AMERICA, LAND OF THOUGHT POLICE,
AMERICA, LAND OF ENFORCED PEACE..."

*continues to sing*

The Alien from Uranus wrote:

Also, guys. I'm 99.99999% certain Ayezur's post was sarcastic. Really.

They see me trollin', they hatin'. etc.

Yeah, I had a point hidden under my apparently subtle sarcasm, but that got missed in favor of moral! outrage! OUTRAGE I SAY.

and my point was basically that I've never seen circumcision wank come up except in the context of how men are totally oppressed because they get their foreskins cut off.

Sort of like it did now.



To the Dworkinmobile! AWAY!

Okay, here are my thoughts:

1. If this woman was merely CONSIDERING an abortion, there was no crime actually committed and therefore why the fuck was she arrested?
2. Getting upset and falling downstairs is an accident, not a crime.
3. There have been breaches of doctor/patient confidentiality.
4. All of the above apply even if ACTUAL abortion is illegal where she lives. The facts are the facts regardless of whether you're pro-life or pro-choice.
5. Circumcision is an unnecessary and risky procedure. It should only be done if the person wants it or for medical reasons. Nobody should make the choice for a person, and that includes children.

I love walking into a thread to see a bunch of women throwing e-fists at each other over whether a structurally superfluous piece of skin being cut off is an atrocity.

Dongs are serious business.

TheHermit wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

>implying

Please don't spread 4chan memes. They're the internet form of herpes.

I think you missed why that particular comment was aimed at Psy-4, king of the 15 year old /b/tards.

Ezri Dax wrote:

1. If this woman was merely CONSIDERING an abortion, there was no crime actually committed and therefore why the fuck was she arrested?

Given her mental state, the doctor suspected that the falling down the stairs wasn't an accident.

Ezri Dax wrote:

2. Getting upset and falling downstairs is an accident, not a crime.

While getting upset and throwing yourself down the stairs with intent to harm the fetus is.

Ezri Dax wrote:

3. There have been breaches of doctor/patient confidentiality.

No, there wasn't. Learn2read.

Wait, aren't you that shitty troll? Nevermind.

People do lots of stupid things when they're upset.

To arrest her for simply CONSIDERING an abortion is disgusting.

Penguin wrote:

I love walking into a thread to see a bunch of women throwing e-fists at each other over whether a structurally superfluous piece of skin being cut off is an atrocity.

Seriously, us British ladies look at a circumcised wang and go "er... but what do I do with this? How is this fun?"

Penguin wrote:

I love walking into a thread to see a bunch of women throwing e-fists at each other over whether a structurally superfluous piece of skin being cut off is an atrocity.

The necessity of the piece of skin isn't the point, the point is whether or not they have the right to do an unnecessary surgical procedure on a child that affects their sex life for the rest of their lives when they're too young to know the implications, speak, or protest. It's not what's getting cut off that makes it an atrocity, it's the fact that you're performing unnecessary surgical procedures on a child. In what world is that not fucked up?

Also, I'm not a woman.

Delcat wrote:

how the hell did we get from abortion wank to circumcision wank anyway

BECAUSE WE MUST TALK ABOUT STUFF THAT AFFECTS MEN