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It's probably not as effective an argument as it should be, since ostensibly the key point of their position has to do with fetus, not the woman. … Continue reading “John Scalzi on rape and abortion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,134,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-care","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32315,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/abortion-as-felony-evidence-tampering.html","url_meta":{"origin":30900,"position":0},"title":"Abortion as felony evidence-tampering","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Jan-13 2:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In a sane world, this would be a reasonable, even important piece of legislation, New Mexico HB 206, creating a felony penalty for tampering with evidence in a rape or incest case:'Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49317,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/the-anti-abortion-factions-problem-with-rape.html","url_meta":{"origin":30900,"position":1},"title":"The Anti-Abortion Faction's Problem with Rape","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Jan-15 4:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I get it. I really do. If you really believe that abortion is the killing of a little baby, then the origin of that baby (including via rape or incest) is not germane, and having those sorts of exceptions in anti-abortion bills is, itself, saying that it's sometimes okay to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":139078,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/alabamas-draconian-abortion-law-made-one-unanticipated-demographic-happy-rapists.html","url_meta":{"origin":30900,"position":2},"title":"Alabama’s draconian abortion law made one unanticipated demographic happy: rapists","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Jun-19 6:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And the state's done the minimum amount to fix that.","rel":"","context":"In "Church & State"","block_context":{"text":"Church & State","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/church-state"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/alabama-capitol-dome.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/alabama-capitol-dome.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/alabama-capitol-dome.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/alabama-capitol-dome.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/alabama-capitol-dome.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/alabama-capitol-dome.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":29908,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/shifting-the-overton-wiindow-on-rape.html","url_meta":{"origin":30900,"position":3},"title":"Shifting the Overton Window on rape","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Aug-12 6:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, it's all \"Look at that crazy Republican extremist and his bizarro attitudes\" today ... and then \"There's certainly room for discussion on the matter in a democracy\" tomorrow ... followed by ... (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overton_window) And, oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about Akin's (and Paul Ryan's) co-sponsorship role in the \"forcible rape\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29988,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/a-consistency-right-or-wrong-of-approach-on-abortion.html","url_meta":{"origin":30900,"position":4},"title":"A consistency (right or wrong) of approach on abortion","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Aug-12 6:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Ryan is being consistent. 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Of course, what he says he meant was \"forcible,\" which doesn't help any:- Forcible rape victims can (and do) get pregnant, despite what Akin (who's on the House\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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