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Yes, I did. We've established that you can read. Now lets work on context. The word was appropriately used and not an insult, if that's what you are implying.
Right wingers have so much trouble with the concept of "context".
LML is a minion? Not according to websters...
Main Entry: min·ion Pronunciation: \ˈmin-yən\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle French mignon darling Date: circa 1500 1 : a servile dependent, follower, or underling 2 : one highly favored :idol 3 : a subordinate or petty official
I don't believe LML could be called dependent, follower or an underling of those that wish to outlaw birth control. She certainly is not highly favored by such an organization as she does not believe as they do and she is not a subordinate or a petty officer of said organization.
I'm afraid 'minion' is not a term you are all that familiar with - contextually or otherwise.
Perhaps you are more familiar with the term 'histrionic'.
Let's pretend for a moment that I accept that a fetus is "another human being." If that "other human being" is threatening my life, I am entitled to protect myself from it, up to and including killing it. I could even do that if it walked up to me on the street and pointed a gun at me. That's how I reconcile that with my position. It's perfectly logical, reasonable and legal.
If a woman can honestly feel that way about her own baby then she is a very, very scary person and I'd be afraid to meet HER on the street.
I wonder how many people....no matter what their circumstances of birth ....truly would wish they had never been born. Don't count teen agers in puberty who are mad because mom won't let them take the car tonight. Just seriously ask 100 people if they wish they had never felt the sun on their face, never listened to music, never eaten an ice cream cone, never laughed, never cried, never had the opportunity to make their own choice.
But you can't contemplate things like that if you never existed. And lots of people don't exist, and not just because of abortion. We don't spend time worrying about that.
Tell that to my cousin who damn near died giving birth, and still suffers from the damage caused to her body as a result of the trauma, including memory loss and paralysis. And that's not to mention the fact that she'll never be able to have another child due to the emergency hysterectomy they were forced to perform while they were trying to save her life.
You don't get to dictate that I should be forced to take that risk with my body and my life, regardless how small it might be. Period.
My cousin's wife did die. It wasn't a high risk pregnancy, there were no warnings, and yet she died.
If a woman can honestly feel that way about her own baby then she is a very, very scary person and I'd be afraid to meet HER on the street.
Honestly, you know many HER's, you just don't realize it. Probably women in your own family but at the very least women you know from work, church, the neighborhood, schools, etc.
I don't know why people try to demonize women who have had abortions. Many people wouldn't be alive today if their mother hadn't aborted a pregnancy earlier in her life. I know a couple of those people myself.
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