Have you ever been irked the right way? I have, it's amazing.

She's angry, and probably very hurt. She's not a superhuman who is immune to the trauma of having a mentally ill family member. But your sweeping judgment of her is of course well founded, and based on an intimate knowledge of her and her family. Congrats.

People don't come forward because they may not be immediately believed without question? I don't think it's quite that simple.

it's unfortunate that we don't have Internet security right now or the laws in place to protect people from pirating that stuff

......Go on?

That was really upsetting. I found myself feeling... violent as I was listening to it.

Shhhhhhhhh.

So organize a political party that promises to alter the constitution and dissolve itself and the entire government once elected. You won't win, of course, because nobody wants that. Even if you did win, it would lead to a power vacuum. Someone else would step in, and that someone would probably have selfish…

"My question to you is, why is it just for the state to use violence to coerce people to submit to their will, but not okay for me personally to use violence against you to get shit done that I want done."

The same arguments couldn't be applied to women, because the fetus is part of a woman's body and she therefore can choose to do what she wants with it. The fetus isn't part of the man's body, and so after the fact, his choices are limited. This fundamental difference means the same arguments don't work in both…

Jesus fucking Christ, abortion should not be illegal because no one has a right to tell you whether you can remove a part of your own body. That doesn't change the fact that IF A BABY IS ACTUALLY BROUGHT TO TERM AND BECOMES ITS OWN AUTONOMOUS PERSON, the parents are both responsible for it. WHILE THE BABY IS ATTACHED…

"Follow this to it's [sic] logical ends [sic], using the government to threaten men to force them to do work their body [sic] to subsidize your CHOICE is a violation of their bodily autonomy."

Bodily autonomy does not mean "the ability to avoid legal, moral, and financial obligations you willingly took on." Bodily autonomy means deciding what gets to touch your body, go inside your body, or (in a woman's case), live parasitically off your body. That's why women get to choose whether or not they're going to…

"So can you explain why women should have the choice to become parents but men shouldn't?"

You phrase things in such a skewed way.

No. You're trivializing the most important part of my comment. The baby (parasite) is growing in and living off of the woman's body. Everyone has the right to bodily autonomy. You cannot force someone to keep or remove a part of their body. That's why she gets to make the choice. It's all so very, very simple.

They had a choice already. Their choice came in the, ahem, early stages. This is a biological reality; it may be "unfair" but it's also unfair that women are burdened with so much reproductive responsibility.

You're not a woman, by the way.

"You realize pro-lifers make the same argument of "oh you had sex now you're responsible so abortion is bad" right?"

It's so simple. A man can help put a baby in a woman's body. His sperm is half the equation, and therefore he's half responsible. But the baby is growing inside the woman's body, living off of her - it is, for all intents and purposes, a part of her body until it comes out. Since it's a part of her body, she decides…