Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.
  • silence7@slrpnk.net
    37·
    2 months ago

    It’s almost like the decision to make the lives of actual people less important has consequences.

  • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    Opinions on abortion are strong indicators of psychopathy. Nobody against legal abortion has a functional moral sense. Some are just incredibly morally stupid. Others are religious zombies. But they’re all dangerous and fundamentally animalistic. We can coexist with these creatures, obviously — we already do. But the widespread delusion that they’re just like us has been incredibly dangerous and possibly world-ending. It’s no coincidence they’re the same “people” who support pollution and celebrate ecological depredation.

      • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Do you dehumanize bears when you acknowledge that they lack certain abilities? I like bears. They’re great! Doesn’t mean I have to pretend that they’re civilized or intelligent.

        • Drusas@fedia.io
          2·
          2 months ago

          Do I dehumanize a creature which is not human? No, dehumanization doesn’t work that way.

          • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            By “human” you might mean

            1. an animal whose DNA falls within a specific probability distribution, or
            2. an animal that embodies various virtues or transcendental capacities, etc.

            We should acknowledge that countless creatures meet condition 1 but not 2. So what?

    • punkaccountant@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

      Out of pure curiosity, is your statement linking abortion opinions and psychopathy based on any studies you can link?

      • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’m not sure if that research’s been done, but it would be highly surprising if psychopaths were not the ones in favor of limiting women’s reproductive freedom.

        What I can tell you is that abortion rights are an “easy” moral issue. Every year or two there’s a survey among professional philosophers, who of course disagree on basically everything. However, the item with the most consensus is abortion. That’s because there are simply no good arguments against abortion rights. The only reason someone might be against reproductive freedom is… well… moral imbecility.

        We already know that moral reasoning exists on a spectrum of competence. That some people are so bad at it that it’s pathological, and that some percentage of these people are also narcissistic enough to be called “psychopaths.” It’s a disorder; it’s on a spectrum, and anti-abortion zealots are on that spectrum.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    I’m a practicing Christian. I also believe in abortion and birth control like I personally invented them. I worked with a gyne who performed them and it’s such a nothing of a procedure. Every pathology report said the same thing “spongy hemorrhagic tissue with no fetal parts”. The fuss is literally over a tiny bit of tissue.

    Nobody should have to be pregnant if they don’t want to, ever.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    Its only a problem if influential white women die though.

    Keep Texasing, Texas. You’ll get there.