I’d like to quote your entire post on FB. Shall I just attribute it to your handle?

If anyone ever told you that the left is easy to take offense, please take note of the thousands of offenses which the political right believe absolutely require governmental intervention. Count the thousands of times you didn’t see a gay relationship on TV—for fear it might offend someone—even though at least 10% of…

Here goes my rant!

I’m watching my country lose its ever loving mind

I think I’m much more scared of one of my kids shooting the other than I am of strangers breaking in. The choice is very clear to me. It's strange to me that so many fearful people are afraid of burglars but not accidental shootings. I'm guessing these are the same people who are afraid of Muslim neighbours but not…

Not true!

You’re not. I didn’t do the Santa myth with my kids even when we were a Catholic family. It always seemed creepy to me. “Here, sit on this strange man’s lap and tell him things you want and he’ll sneak into your house late at night and bring them to you.” Um, no thanks. This elf on the shelf thing takes it to a whole…

Yeah but I think if you’re a doctor, you have to be really clear on what “do no harm” means, and personally I think that sometimes the worst - and most harmful - thing a doctor can do is keep someone alive who has no hope of any quality of life.

Euthanasia, for babies as well as adults, is part of ethical medicine. A good article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/mag…

Listen, I’m going to stop engaging here, because I don’t feel like people are being particularly logical about this.

independently existing in the world and outside this woman’s womb

I agree with you, yes.

Yeah, I guess the whole thing goes back to the point that it never should have gone this far. I don’t believe most politicians (particularly men) really care one way or the other on abortion. They just know they can count on a particular set of votes depending which way they go, which terrifies me. That abortion…

I’m conflicted, so I don’t have a problem with your position. It really never should have come to this. The Right is ruining this country, and it has a role in ruining two lives now. This whole thing is just tragic. There is nothing good in this, anyway you look at it. I think Rick Santorum or some other grandstanding…

I was just objecting to the notion the complications in this case are the same as the ones all preemies potentially face.

I suppose we will have to agree to disagree. I guess I don’t really see a baby with so many medical problems as a person who’s life wouldve been ended. Their life had never begun until the doctors intervened. It’s kinda like reverse playing God. If left to his own devices the baby would not have survived outside the…

Right? Maybe my xmas gifts to people this year (because I have not started shopping) will be donations to PP. I’m not even being flippant—I’m kind of on board with the idea of, “Uncle Steve, great news—I donated $100 to Planned Parenthood in your name. And it is earmarked for abortion, you fucking tool.” That would be…

You make a good point that no one knows for sure, but if the woman had access to the abortion services she obviously needed at an earlier point in her pregnancy, this wouldn’t have been an issue, right? This is still a result of denying women access to health care that is vitally important.

Legally, they had to resuscitate.

I’m sure she tried to get an abortion earlier on & because the rules were so restrictive she couldn’t have. People logically wouldn’t put their lives in dangers & at a later stage if the abortion care was more accessbile. Poor woman, living in a place with backwards-ass politicians. :/