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“They were attacking my faith. It bothered me to the core,” said Sara, a Southern Baptist who identifies as pro-life. “Because I had never viewed [IVF] as wrong, as anything other than beautiful and bringing another life into the world. … I’ve actually had a lot of friends pray for me and encourage me and help me along in the process.”

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did they not realize that the womens rights that the left have fought for also included conservative women?

[–] [email protected] 135 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"I never thought the leapords would eat MY face" says member of the Leapords Eating Peoples Faces party

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only moral abortion is my abortion!

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

"Because I had never viewed [IVF] as wrong..." is not a justification. I rarely swear, but from the bottom of my heart fuck the people of any religion or political ideology who believe they have some special pipeline to absolute truth. And an extra helping if they believe that gives them the right to legislate their beliefs onto everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Honestly I don't think one can be against abortion and for IVF without doing a whole bunch of mental gymnastics.

How can you ban "aborting" embryos that are in the womb but support IVF which results in way more "aborted" embryos.

It's either be against both or support both.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

How can you ban “aborting” embryos that are in the womb but support IVF which results in way more “aborted” embryos.

The exact way they are doing here: insist that they're somehow different and avoid thinking about the logical result of their beliefs in order to escape cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You may be overestimating how familiar they are with the specifics of IVF. It could be perceived as simply as "IVF means more babies, which is good, because I want babies. But abortion means less babies, which is bad."

If those people like that perception, they will resist or deny any further detail that would jeopardize those perceptions to remain willfully ignorant, especially if they have utilized IVF themselves. The cognitive dissonance would be too strong otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Feels like an old variant on the trolley problem.

I'd guess their view is something like, with an abortion, if you don't, there's a baby, but with an unimplanted embryo, if you do nothing there's no baby. Essentially absolving people for not taking an action, even though the outcome is the same as those they condemn when an action is taken in a similar situation. But it's also weird and telling how they're now arguing that just having more babies be born is some kind of implicit positive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

They don't see mental gymnastics as a problem in my experience. They make all these rules for how everyone should live and then naturally it sucks if you actually comply 100%, so they find ways to make the things they want ok (usually only for them though). They want babies, so actually it's totally fine to dispose of unused embryos. See also: modesty standards, gender roles, social programs, and so on.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 9 months ago (2 children)

These are the very same people who also get abortions but insist that their circumstances are somehow different.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

This can be reposted a thousand times and it would never be too much

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

One of the greatest blog posts of all time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This highlights how little empathy people have for others

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can't believe that a fertilized egg is a human being and also do IVF. Because typically 15 harvested eggs will lead to 12 fertilized eggs will end up with a few viable eggs which will end up with one pregnancy (if you're lucky). That's 11 murdered "children" by their definition.

They want to have their cake and eat it too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Man wait till they learn about masturbation…

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Dude shut the fuck up... seriously... don't give them ideas lol! Pry this dick from my cold dead sticky hands

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 9 months ago

Hard "it effects me, so now it's a problem." energy here

[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The "I never thought they'd come for me" crowd appears to have fucked around and, subsequently, found out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How much of that innuendo was intentional?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Too bad these conservative Christian women will be flatly ignored by the conservative Christian men in charge:

1 Timothy 2

11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.

12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.

15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At my last job, my manager was a conservative white Karen. She invited my wife and I over for dinner, and I'm guessing he was not prepared for me to be a person of color in a mixed marriage. And the dude has some real conservative opinions that she agreed with half the time, and the other half, clearly looked uncomfortable and refused to confront it.

Where my wife and I go at it all the time with conflicting views and find a middle ground.

And it makes me wonder why more conservative women aren't being more Karen-like against their husband. I mean, I know why, but still.

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[–] Mouselemming 58 points 9 months ago

If it's God's will the woman who didn't want to be pregnant got pregnant, then it's also God's will the one who wanted to get pregnant couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Leopard eating faces?

Say it ain't so!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

and then they came for me...

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (10 children)

How long until they realize they can’t square the circle of being pro IVF and still believe life begins and conception?

I guess being consistent was never a worry for conservatives in the first place anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago

"When we supported the face eating leopards to eat peoples' faces, we didn't think it would be our faces!"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oops, be careful, you might end up admitting your stance on abortion is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The stance is "Making more white babies is good" / "Making more rich babies is good".

IVF is outrageously expensive. It's exclusively for the segment of the population that's got $50k to spend up front on having a kid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The stance, "a fertilized egg is a perosn."

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Either:

Embryos are people and they should never be destroyed, so IVF and abortion should be illegal.

OR

Embryos are not people and your right to choose what happens to your body is paramount. Therefore, abortions and IVF should be legal.

Which is it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Neither. IVF is just like abortion...when they do it, it's OK because they had a good reason. When someone else does it, it's because they're going against God's will and deserve to be judged by both their neighbors and the government.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

So it is almost like those women have a right to do what they want to do to their bodies.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They should defend it at the poles along with the right to keep all their medical issues between them and their doctors.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The best way for them to do that would be to stop voting for conservatives.

[–] crazyCat 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The best way for conservatives to drive forth a common sense conservative agenda is by voting for the Democrats!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They almost did it after they lost to Obama again in 2012 iirc. The Republican leadership put out a report that the GOP should soften it's views on immigration reform and court Latino voters. And then the Tea Party crazies took over.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tea Party was just embryonic Trumpism

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Hey, they’re welcome to involve their church in their medical care. They just don’t get to force their church into everyone else’s.

(and: it’s “polls”)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I too would like to see conservative women defending women's rights at the poles.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

It's a great way to get pregnant without having sex!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Why can't she just adopt?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Doesnt matter since conservative white women arent allowed to speak anyway

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