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They’re not your property, they’re you’re responsibility. And if you shirk your responsibility, you loose the privilege of parenthood.
This statement constitutes proof that the infinite monkey theory is correct. Given infinite time, eventually Amarel will write something which is true.
In other words you are the descendent of an infinite monkey loop that never ends. You are not only your own grandpa monkey, but you are also your own monkey grandchild.
Yes, exactly. I "think" he's going off of when I said "My children are my own because they are my own. I am the primary provider for them, I am the primary person who supports and guides them. I act as the parent." This is speculation though but he did comment that I was essentially calling them my property. Which I disagree with. While they are my children, they aren't property.
Why do you shy away from calling children your property? According to those who vote for the Democrat Party (that supports no restriction abortions), and are pro choice, that viable unborn baby has no right to life, and is but the property of the mother who can choose to discard the baby.
People discard property all the time correct? People are discarding roughly 800,000 unborn babies yearly.
Sure. Property. But human's aren't property. Neither are children. The topic of abortion has been addressed enough by you and just about everyone else regarding concerns about forcing women and when a fetus is considered more than just cells. It's not worth addressing in this debate again. So if you are so against it, do you believe birth control should be free?
You keep saying the topic of abortion has been discussed enough. No, most choicer's never admit or respond to my abortion comments.
This debate is about children being property, and I realize choicer's hate to talk about an issue that shows their inhumanity of treating even viable babies as property.
Your question is trying to divert the issue of a woman having the right to kill her viable baby for any reason according to the Democrat Party, and the side issue of birth control.
That is no different than saying we should give our money freely to a would be thief so that he does not have to rob us. He has no right to rob us, so why should we give him money to keep it from happening?
A woman should have no right to kill babies if not for extreme cases, so why should we pay for their birth control? She or he can buy their own!
First of all, people could easily get access to free condoms if they do not have the money to afford them. Condoms are cheap, but your assumption that people do not use birth control because of the cost is ludicrous.
People choose to not use birth control because they don't like being inconvenienced by their use, or they don't like the feeling of condoms, etc. etc.
If you were a woman, and the man did not have a condom, would you still have sex with him taking a chance of getting pregnant?
I would gladly help pay for free birth control, if the Left would end convenience abortions.
You and every other choicer in this nation would never make that deal, so spare me. It has nothing to do with the cost of birth control.
Because free birth control for a normal bodily function that all women go through would not only help her regulate her periods, reduce pain, assists in many instances with other medical concerns regarding her reproductive system, and also reduces the chance of unplanned pregnancy. Most women choose not to use birth control because even with insurance it's expensive. For younger people who may only have a Part time job while they're in college, the cost WITHOUT medical insurance is astronomical. It's a shame that you're only thinking of condoms, it shows how short sighted you are.
What's a shame is that you ignore condoms because they shatter your entire argument.
People can get condoms for free!!!!! That's the facts but you want to be deceptive as always.
Talk about short sighted.
You are talking about universal healthcare when we go down this road of free women's health issues. Tax payers can not afford giving everyone free elective healthcare, regardless of the benefits.
A nation and it's people must always grasp the fact that a better quality of life requires hard work and effort. It can not be taken from one hard worker and given to an irresponsible person. This socialistic ideology dumb's down the entire nation and ends up with financial collapse.
Do you realize that Obamacare made it impossible for middle class workers to afford insurance for their own families? When you force universal healthcare on the workers, you are simply stealing from the fruits of their labors, denying them the ability to support their own families healthcare, and giving it to able bodied people who are content to live off others.
The only system proven to work over the centuries is a merit based system whereby you must work for what you get in life.
Before you waste my time, I'm not talking about disabled people or those who can not support themselves.
What a shame condoms are all you're thinking about. They are just a glove to protect. Actual birth control medicine befits the woman in more than one way. If you want to help reduce the amount of abortions than birth control for women is a double whammy to help that. It reduces the change of pregnancy and has other health benefits for the female that have been proven. If a woman is taking birth control that is the very OPPOSITE of irresponsible. It's honestly laughable that you would suggest otherwise.
I REPEAT... there are close to 800,000 abortions per years and you want to sit there and tell me that all these women were using birth control?
They chose not to use it before choosing to have sex. Then they want their cake and eat it too by choosing to end the life of the baby.
Why do bleeding Liberals such as yourself refuse to hold people accountable for their choices in life. Your bleeding heart compassion only leads to millions more broken homes and fatherless children. You are making it worse! I thought you cared about people?
Start using your brain and address the core problem instead of expecting tax payers to bail everyone out for the rest of eternity.
A woman has a couple choices. She can use birth control, she can demand that the guy uses a condom, or she can choose to NOT HAVE SEX because of the risk of getting pregnant. THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!
You are treating women like total idiots who have no control over their choices. I give women more respect than that!
People on the Left refuse to hold people responsible for their choices in life. Get a moral backbone and start shaming selfish people who refuse to live responsibly. It is the only way to stem the tide of broken families.
Your no fault social experiment has been an unbelievable failure. We have record numbers of broken families, record numbers of people living on food stamps, record numbers of people using medicaid since the Government decided to redistribute the working man's paycheck.
A child is not a piece of property. No human being is a piece of property. That is called slavery. To care for a child is not making it your property. Yes you have the right to instruct and redirect your child, but they also have the right to walk away if their parents become abusive.
According to the Left, children are our property to do with what we so choose.
Why would Democrats shy away from calling children their property? According to those who vote for the Democrat Party (that supports no restriction abortions) and are pro choice, that viable unborn baby has no right to life, and is but the property of the mother who can choose to discard the baby.
People discard property all the time correct? People are discarding roughly 800,000 unborn babies yearly.
By this incredibly stupid logic, if a diner serves me food everyday I therefore legally belong to them.
By this logic, you have to take care of a helpless human that you brought into the world, and if you don't the government, law enforcement, and society will crucify you, just as they would if you didn't take care of any other creature that you own.