The US Supreme Court

[Sean Hayden]

...brilliant reasoning that

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, surely it was merely an oversight that a duty to rape inmates wasn't in the prison guard's terms of employment.

[Sean Hayden]

It's hardly surprising in a country where the courts have ruled the state/police don't have a duty to protect citizens.

...recognize which party uses protecting citizens from criminals to whip up support...

The duplicity is evil.

[Svartalf]

That ruling is pure dreck. Sure, the guard acted completely beyond and outside of his duties, but it was within said duties he had access to the inmate, so the crime was indeed also a matter of the county that employed him although he was unsuitable, I mean, he WAS guilty of similar offences and HAD been convicted of felonious conduct in public office, which proves that his criminal behavior was indeed a matter of his duties. I don't know if that decision can still be reversed, but I hope it can and does.

As for ACB, I hope she gets nominated chief trash bin emptier in Podunk Wi.

[Tero]

[Sean Hayden]

Drove by the abortion clinic today. I can't understand why we allow protestors to setup shop there 24/7. Christ, worse, the last time I drove through Florida every other billboard was calling women murderers. Why do we put up with this shit?

[pErvinalia]

Because God.

[Sean Hayden]

It's insane, and cruel. But that's the norm here.

"Responsible parents don't take their children to church"

"Never leave a child unsupervised with a priest"

"Every day a child is born into an abusive religious family"

...mild by comparison to the harm they do, I know, but still totally UNACCEPTABLE!!!

[Svartalf]

:like:

[Brian Peacock]

It's a kind of industrial scale Stockholm syndrome wrapped around rampantly institutionalised sexism.

[Sean Hayden]

I'm afraid the pro-life argument may just be easier to present and accept. I'm curious if any research has been done about that ie does the pro-life side have an advantage owing to our history?

[laklak]

I don't know why we do most of the shit we do. I used to worry about it, now I just drink and smoke weed.

[L'Emmerdeur]

I'm afraid the pro-life argument may just be easier to present and accept. I'm curious if any research has been done about that ie does the pro-life side have an advantage owing to our history?

And yet ...

[Sean Hayden]

That's good to see, but I'm skeptical. The majority of Americans may not know what it is.

What do they say about abortion specifically?

According to Gallup some 47% think it is morally wrong. More interesting to the question raised by my post though is the difference between educated vs uneducated. The more education one has the less likely they are to view abortion as immoral.

To me this speaks to the possibility that pro-life arguments may indeed be easier to present and accept.

[JimC]

Pro-life arguments are essentially emotional, tying normal human emotional responses to babies to an early foetus...