Twin Reduction Abortion

[Ideologue]

When looking at these types of issues I have a process, which starts by an initial assessment of my "gut feeling" and continues to examine the evidence before coming to a conclusion. Clearly, the gut is going to present a strong bias initially, and without burrowing deeper in this my gut is currently screaming "savages!  ".

The concept of "removing" one twin simply doesn't feel right.

OMFG IS IT RIGHT BECAUSE YOU SAY SO?

[Malthus]

When do you tell the kid, anyway?  Over dinner after soccer practice?  "Pass the lasagna--hey, this looks like your brother!"

Learning a few years back that I was supposed to have another older brother whom my parents aborted two years before I was born was pretty uncomfortable.

The rest of us are unhappy about your parent's choice as well. 

[Slargos]

When do you tell the kid, anyway?  Over dinner after soccer practice?  "Pass the lasagna--hey, this looks like your brother!"

Learning a few years back that I was supposed to have another older brother whom my parents aborted two years before I was born was pretty uncomfortable.

The rest of us are unhappy about your parent's choice as well. 

I have no doubt about that. Your heart is blackened not just with typical jew greed, but also with hatred. 

[Razgovory]

When do you tell the kid, anyway?  Over dinner after soccer practice?  "Pass the lasagna--hey, this looks like your brother!"

Learning a few years back that I was supposed to have another older brother whom my parents aborted two years before I was born was pretty uncomfortable.

The rest of us are unhappy about your parent's choice as well. 

Think about how they feel?  If I told my parents I was going to runaway to Norway and sell cabinets I'd be right back in the booby hatch.

[Slargos]

When do you tell the kid, anyway?  Over dinner after soccer practice?  "Pass the lasagna--hey, this looks like your brother!"

Learning a few years back that I was supposed to have another older brother whom my parents aborted two years before I was born was pretty uncomfortable.

The rest of us are unhappy about your parent's choice as well. 

Think about how they feel?  If I told my parents I was going to runaway to Norway and sell cabinets I'd be right back in the booby hatch.

Take responsibility for your failures instead of lashing out at me, you tit.

[Malthus]

When do you tell the kid, anyway?  Over dinner after soccer practice?  "Pass the lasagna--hey, this looks like your brother!"

Learning a few years back that I was supposed to have another older brother whom my parents aborted two years before I was born was pretty uncomfortable.

The rest of us are unhappy about your parent's choice as well. 

I have no doubt about that. Your heart is blackened not just with typical jew greed, but also with hatred. 

You assume I possess such an organ. Other than in a jar somewhere. 

[Slargos]

You assume I possess such an organ. Other than in a jar somewhere. 

Granted, given you're a jew and a lawyer it was a bit presumptuous of me. I apologize. 

[Razgovory]

Take responsibility for your failures instead of lashing out at me, you tit.

You being a disappointment to your parents is hardly my failure.

[HVC]

When do you tell the kid, anyway?  Over dinner after soccer practice?  "Pass the lasagna--hey, this looks like your brother!"

Learning a few years back that I was supposed to have another older brother whom my parents aborted two years before I was born was pretty uncomfortable.

i can kind of beat that. i had a older brother who was still born (like a week or so before term). Given that i have my fathers name i've known since a young age that i basically have my dead brothers name.

[Ideologue]

I used to do so, and I was pretty obligated to oppose abortion.  If you don't, as I now don't, then the obvious outcome is that abortion is fine for any reason or no reason. 

Disappointing. Not only because you no longer agree with me, but it makes the overall tenor of your beliefs much more conventional.

That's not quite true.  Few leftists are as pro-war as I am.

[Razgovory]

I used to do so, and I was pretty obligated to oppose abortion.  If you don't, as I now don't, then the obvious outcome is that abortion is fine for any reason or no reason. 

Disappointing. Not only because you no longer agree with me, but it makes the overall tenor of your beliefs much more conventional.

That's not quite true.  Few leftists are as pro-war as I am.

Hitchens.

[Ideologue]

I used to do so, and I was pretty obligated to oppose abortion.  If you don't, as I now don't, then the obvious outcome is that abortion is fine for any reason or no reason. 

Disappointing. Not only because you no longer agree with me, but it makes the overall tenor of your beliefs much more conventional.

That's not quite true.  Few leftists are as pro-war as I am.

Hitchens.

I didn't say none.  And so far as I've seen, he's an excellent human being.

[Eddie Teach]

I said more conventional, not completely conventional. 

[Slargos]

Take responsibility for your failures instead of lashing out at me, you tit.

You being a disappointment to your parents is hardly my failure.

"I know you are but what am I?" 

My mother didn't leave me. 

[11B4V]

Under federal law, anyone who injures or kills a "child in utero" during a violent crime gets the same punishment as if he had injured or killed "the unborn child's mother,"

And that's just retarded. Killing a fetus (outside of a consensual abortion procedure) should carry a penalty, but equating it with a proper murder is simply wrong.

As with any discussion about morality, it's difficult to carry a conversation without first agreeing on definitions.

Certainly, an argument could probably be made that killing a fetus is not murder per se since the fetus hasn't lived enough to become a person any more than a fish or a plant. But then, we end up in the entire Potential argument, and that slope is pretty fucking slippery.

When looking at these types of issues I have a process, which starts by an initial assessment of my "gut feeling" and continues to examine the evidence before coming to a conclusion. Clearly, the gut is going to present a strong bias initially, and without burrowing deeper in this my gut is currently screaming "savages!  ".

The concept of "removing" one twin simply doesn't feel right.

Learning a few years back that I was supposed to have another older brother whom my parents aborted two years before I was born was pretty uncomfortable.

Couldn't agree more.