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

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    “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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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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        And it makes me wonder why more conservative women aren’t being more Karen-like against their husband.

        Commodification of relationships means rich people are always in a buyer’s market. If you’re not subservient to your boyfriend’s every whim, some other more committed social climbers will be.

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    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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      It doesn’t seem that inconsistent to me. Natural pregnancy often ends in spontaneous abortion (usually before the woman knows that she’s pregnant) but pro-life people aren’t against getting pregnant. I suppose that as long as the goal is to have a child, God makes sure no souls are harmed.

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        There’s no getting around the fact that IVF ends with discarding some embryos.

        And if you think life begins at conception, that’s murder.

        Edit: Just read this in a NYT article:

        More than 120 Republican members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of the Life at Conception Act. Among them is their leader, Speaker Mike Johnson, an evangelical Christian who has called abortion “an American holocaust.” The bill provides that “the terms ‘human person’ and ‘human being’ include each and every member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.”

        That’s ironclad. You CANNOT support both IVF and believe life begins at conception.

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          That’s just your perspective. There are plenty beleif systems allowing “souls” to check on their physical bodies but not actual reside permanently till up to 4 years old. So yea that’s is your opinion of life based on your definition of life contingent to a concept of a permanent soul.

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        Wait, so God can make sure no souls are harmed??? So why doesn’t he just always do that regardless if it’s an abortion or not? Instead he’s actively picking and choosing which child’s soul is harmed and which isn’t?? What an abhorrent monster your God is.

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          Well, God has to draw the line somewhere. It would be weird if people who were going to live tragically short lives were instead born as soulless husks. The pro-life Christians defending IVF presumably think he draws the line at successful implantation.

          (Also, can people not tell by my tone that I’m an atheist?)

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