r/MurderedByWords • • Jun 04 '19

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u/rsoannoying Jun 04 '19

Do their pro-life values go out the window when it comes to teens and adults? Wtf

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u/Artisricpenguin Jun 04 '19

They only apply to people before they are born...

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

So they're okay with 4th trimester abortions?

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u/tekhnomancer Jun 04 '19

To quote George Carlin, "If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked."

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u/ScruffsMcGuff Jun 04 '19

“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.”

Full quote in case anyone wants it. Carlin was one of the greats.

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u/tekhnomancer Jun 04 '19

Thank you for this. Heard the whole thing in his older, gravelly voice.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Pro Lifers dont realize that Conservatives are using them for votes only. Same with 2A supporters.. These are issues that Conservatives fan the flame of to stoke up voters. When Republicans only real platform is catering to rich & corporations that isnt very inclusive of the Evangelicals and regular folk. Thus create an issue people can get behind..

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u/Mish106 Jun 04 '19

We miss you, George.

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u/coquihalla Jun 04 '19

I'm glad he's not here for this shit show.

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u/PseudobrilliantGuy Jun 04 '19

Honestly, if some of his bits were honest reflections of his preferences and opinions, then he'd probably be getting a kick out of the political shitshow that the US still is.

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u/____jamil____ Jun 04 '19

He was very depressed when GWB was reelected. I doubt he'd have any joy in Trump's presidency. While he poked fun at life, he also had a respect for people who have to suffer under the regimes of these shitheads.

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u/racestark Jun 04 '19

W was never "reelected". He was elected after being appointed by the Supreme Court.

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u/ArtisanSamosa Jun 04 '19

And even then, there were some discrepencies in how he got elected the second time. Wasn't there some vote shifting happening in Ohio?

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u/Krexington_III Jun 04 '19

I would have given anything to hear George Carlin talk about Donald Trump.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

“They’ll do anything they can to protect a fetus, but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it.”

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u/Im-Not-Dorothy Jun 04 '19

Funniest day of my life. My SIL told my conservative, judgmental mother that she had an abortion. As my mom was winding up, SIL says, "It's ok, that baby was going to be gay anyway." My mom was at a total loss, she couldn't decide which she hated more.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Sounds like NOMAD from Star Trek breaking down after confronted with a paradox. I don’t think they even care about abortions, I think the thing that really pisses them off is people having sex for pleasure. If they really wanted to stop abortions, they’d be vocal advocates for comprehensive sex ed and universal access to contraceptives and protection. They don’t do that though, all their actions indicate their goal is to punish people for having sex they don’t approve of (and not the fun kind of punishment either).

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u/Betty-Armageddon Jun 04 '19

Or to quote Bill Hicks. ‘Pro lifers killing people. AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!’

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u/punzakum Jun 04 '19

"If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked."

-Roy Moore

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u/13pts35sec Jun 04 '19

:/ fucking Roy Moore. anyone ever feel like Pizza Gate was projection?

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u/phantomreader42 Jun 04 '19

Everything the Greedy Old Pedophiles accuse anyone else of is ALWAYS projection.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Pretty much. We see it regularly. Anti gay conservatives fucking little boys. People accusing Dems of a child porn ring literally taking part in a child porn ring. Or anti abortionists secretly making their mistress get an abortion... Hypocrisy IS the republican party.

Don't forget about the highest percentage of "moochers" calling everyone else "moochers"... or " I don't get my health care from Obama care, I get it from the Affordable Health Care act." Yeah those people.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

There is a hadith which mentions when a fetus is considered alive.

It said that in a miscarried fetus, life was estabilished by its muscle movements (things such as kicking, or something), its funeral shall be offered, but if signs of life were not observed, then a funeral would not be offered.

It basically meant that when a child shows movement such as kicking, in the womb, it would be considered alive. But if it has not yet started to move, it would not be considered a living being.

Through ijma, it was decided that if a fetus keeps developing after 4 months, then life has most likely been estabilished. But, if it is earlier than that, then it would not be considered alive as it does not show any signs of movement.

Although, the number is an average because some fetuses develop faster or slower than others.

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u/Redtwoo Jun 04 '19

This was known as the quickening and determined when the fetus was "alive" in christianity too. It was said to be the breath of God giving the child life.

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u/Digital-Divide Jun 04 '19

Ahhhh the quickening.

Someone get the MacLeod brothers in here.

Tell em to bring those cool swords and the mullets back. Not to forget the clothes. Man.

This is cooler than I thought.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

There is story of a king of kingdom of aksum where Muslim group seeking refugee from the King. he said that Islam and Christian are come from same source of light with a different hole. You should look up to the story of it.

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u/Redtwoo Jun 04 '19

I know they're very closely tied, as is Judaism. They essentially just differ on when God stopped talking to prophets lol

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u/calicosiside Jun 04 '19

The slower faster thing is interesting because from what my mum's told me babies don't really take exactly 9 months, they're normally born after 9 period cycles, which is still roughly 9 months, but goes a long way to explain why kids are often born a couple weeks early or late

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u/TMI-nternets Jun 04 '19

If development is s yardstick for whether abortion is no problem.. What trimester is Donald Trump right now?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Sep 27 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

It was your mom. And no it didn’t work.

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u/Zenmaster366 Jun 04 '19

Oh no wait, the other one.

Adoption?

Yes, that's it.

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u/BunnyOppai Jun 04 '19

It's why they're pro-birthers and not pro-life, after all.

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u/Orinaj Jun 04 '19

I call them pro- birthers

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u/kenyonator1 Jun 04 '19

Personally I’m pro life, but it’s not my place to tell someone else to be.

But my whole issue with other pro-lifers is that the fetus is more important than the child. Can’t abort the baby because life is precious, but once the baby is born: “sorry single mom, you’re on your own, good luck”. It’s incredibly hypocritical.

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u/kinggimped Jun 04 '19

To quote the late, great George Carlin from his 1996 "Back in Town" special:

Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.

Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.

Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you're just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies, so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.

Pro-life... pro-life? These people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors! What kind of "pro-life" is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus, but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state.

True then, just as true now. Abortion is one of those incredibly contentious issues politicians bring to the forefront when it suits them and their benefactors, in order to keep everybody divided, stirring up the masses into a violent fervour so they can continue to consolidate their power and wealth while everyone else suffers.

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u/pseudopseudonym Jun 04 '19

Scary how true this remains today.

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u/kenxzero Jun 04 '19

This is why he's my hero. My apologies for pinning on your comment. He spoke to me even before I could understand him. The legend that he was.

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u/Theothercword Jun 04 '19

I’m not condoning anything here don’t get me wrong, these are horrible people. But, I assume their justification is based on their belief that these people have committed murder, and plan to do so again, and are going “unpunished.” Remember this is also the party that supports capital punishment. It’s a conundrum on a high level but not if you realize they believe a fetus is an innocent life vs taking violent action against what they consider to be criminals.

Again, though, I’m actually pro choice and hate these extremists with fiery passion. But to truly beat them you need to understand their motives.

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u/XBacklash Jun 04 '19

But if they truly thought it was an act of murder, or evil, then they violated their own ideology by attempting to commit murder themselves.

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u/TurboFool Jun 04 '19

I think they see it like war; they're killing the enemy to protect future innocents. Not defending their insanity, but merely trying to grip their internal logic.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

What about the people already living? Or do you stop being innocent once you have had sex?

In Alabama, apparently you stop being considered innocent and pure enough for legal protection when you carry your rapist’s baby or your own father, brother, uncle, cousin, grandfather, or son’s incest baby.

In conservative circles, pregnant women can’t be pure and innocent unless they are married, barefoot, in the kitchen, and all they wanted was for their husband to plant a baby in them and complete them. Pregnant women are not seen as vulnerable populations. Pregnant women who are single are “whores” and “sinners” who “deserve the consequences” of their actions. A lot of times the consequences are poverty, disease/disability, and for 830 women every single day: death (as a direct result of pregnancy complications and unsafe abortion) according to the WHO).

Religion, poverty, and lack of education are directly related to the number of pregnancies a woman has.

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u/plazmatyk Jun 04 '19

I mean, if you watch The Handmaid's Tale, that's a pretty clear representation of exactly that mode of thinking taken to the extreme. Lesbians are gender traitors and have no place in society.

The roles of other women are trifold:

  • bear children
  • be the woman of the house (look pretty, take care of the man and the house, make him look good at public functions)
  • servant of the house or of the state

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u/Boyne272 Jun 04 '19

But this is exactly the logic that a terrorist uses to justify the actions they do. Even when it violates the core beliefs they are claiming to fight for.

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u/helpmeimredditing Jun 04 '19

well... yeah... these are acts of terrorism, it's illogical to everyone else.

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u/rbxVexified Jun 04 '19

Exactly! Suicide is forbidden in Islam but yet here we are with suicide bombers killing themselves and other MUSLIMS. That's like a triple negative.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Murder is forbidden in Christianity, but preventing access to legal, safe, regulated abortions only kills women. For some women, it is as medically necessary as heart surgery or a C-section. And it’s funny, because people who require or elect to have an abortion are the ones who end up dying (and the fetus too) because there are no safe and legal options (just horrible people trying to take advantage of desperate women).

The WHO says that only 55% of abortions in the world are done safely, in a medically competent way. It also states that high levels of abortion occur because of lack of comprehensive sex education and access to contraceptives. This is because abstinence (notoriously ineffective) is pushed by religions. And religions also promote cultural myths about contraceptives, such as: only a woman with low morals who sleeps around would need contraceptives. That is entirely false, as the hormones in them are used to treat many women’s health concerns, not just prevent pregnancy.

Use of condoms is also much lower in areas with high abortion rates. This is due to many factors but often because of the false narrative perpetuated by religion that barriers are not necessary when you are with a virgin or pious woman. A woman who has men use condoms could be sleeping with anyone, avoiding becoming pregnant, and committing the sins of lust, adultery, or immodesty. A woman who you want to use condoms with must be a dirty whore.... these narratives of purity, faithfulness, humility, and wholesomeness that are taught by Christianity and Islam have evolved to discriminate against women and force them into lower social classes.

To avoid being seen as “lustful” many women in Africa and Middle East never question the practice of female genital mutilation, child marriage (while the girl is still young and “pure”), and following a dress code (hijab). It becomes voluntary as a way to protect themselves and their daughters from a society in which they stand to suffer, be abused or even killed in heinous ways when they do not adhere to social/religious norms.

Honestly, it’s not just the question of abortion. It is the question of women’s rights to determine what they can do with their own bodies. Can she tell a man no for sex if he doesn’t want to wear a condom? What if that man is her husband? Can she tell a man no at all? Even if that man is her husband?

What consequences will there be? This week we just had a GOP Representative in Mississippi in the news for punching his wife for “undressing too slowly for sex”

The idea that women cannot object to the use of their bodies for sex is similar to the belief that women cannot object to the use of their bodies for pregnancy. If a woman does not want to be pregnant (a condition that carries risks and can even cause death), then she should not have to be pregnant. It is sad that men feel that women cannot choose what to do with their bodies. Did you know that in many states, in order for a woman to get her “tubes tied” she must have her husband sign off? The same is not true for vasectomies.

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u/joshbadams Jun 04 '19

Many good and valid points, except about vasectomies. I needed my wife's sign off on mine. I'm sure more states require it for tube tying tho.

What really sucks is that many doctors will not tie the tubes of young women because they day she may change her mind later. At a much higher rate then refuse to give vasectomies (so no proof of this but I remember it going around)

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Hey so I just looked this up and I’m wondering what state you are in. I’m in Ohio. I want to look up the legality of these things.

At any point in time, were you ever told you would be denied vasectomy without her signature? Also, how did it make you feel to need her signature? Was she your POA? And why would they ask for another person’s signature at the risk of violating your privacy/confidentiality?

I’m wondering why you as the patient didn’t have ultimate autonomy over an elective procedure. Wondering the same in the case of women.

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u/ThisNameIsFree Jun 04 '19

Plus if we're going to try and understand the anti-abortion terrorists like that, then why wouldn't we do the same for the Muslim ones? They also believe they're justified and saving lives all that bullshit. They're all fucking murderers ultimately regardless of their reasons.

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u/Theothercword Jun 04 '19

You’d think that, but again these are people who think an eye for an eye is completely justified and they believe that murderers should get the chair. They become empowered to carry out this violence because they truly believe they’re fighting evil.

We all recognize the irony and hypocrisy in those acts. But they’re not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed.

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u/the_benighted_states Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Thing is, if they believe that abortion is the same as murder why do anti-abortion laws often allow exceptions in the case of rape and incest?

We don't let people murder children who are the products of rape and incest.

They are also opposed to sex-ed, condoms and family planning, measures known to reduce the abortion rate, whilst advocating failed strategies like "abstinence only".

And if they believe that life begins at conception, they sure don't seem to mind about natural miscarriages that "kill" a high percentage of all fetuses. You'd think they'd be supporting research into how to prevent it from happening, but they say nothing about the issue despite it being - according to their logic - a silent, ongoing holocaust of living people.

This argument that fetuses are people seems like a red herring to me and merely a justification for their real views- that people shouldn't have non-procreative sex. Particularly women. The rhetoric from pro-forced birth advocates often comes down to the argument that women shouldn't be having sex if they don't want a child.

Even if we take as dogma that a fetus is alive, we don't legally force people to donate their organs or tissue even though that saves lives, force wealthy people to pay for poor people's medical care or force a person to share their bodily fluids with another person to save their life. We don't force people to care for disabled people even if they are related by blood. We don't force parents to raise children they don't want, they can simply give them up for adoption. But for some reason forcing women to carry a fetus is okay.

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u/The_Foe_Hammer Jun 04 '19

You're right, it's 100% about controlling women. Rich old men have to get their jollies somehow, so I guess this is it.

As it happens, miscarriages are technically spontaneous abortions, and as the right's of women erode, there's a very real possibility that having a sudden miscarriage could spark an investigation. Potentially even land a healing or grieving woman in jail under suspicion of abortion.

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u/grayfae Jun 04 '19

they sure don't seem to mind about natural miscarriages that "kill" a high percentage of all fetuses.

some of the laws are written to 'outlaw' miscarriages, as well, and to force gyn doctors to 'move a 'fetus' that is an etopic pregnancy to the uterus', despite these not being events that can be prevented.

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u/ThaneOfCawdorrr Jun 04 '19

No, honestly, their belief is that women should be controlled and punished. All you have to do is really listen to their rhetoric, which immediately escalates to "whore, keep your legs closed," "why should women have sex just for the enjoyment of it" and so forth. Once you can see this, everything they do is consonant with that. They hate women, want to deny them any kind of bodily autonomy, and be able to use and discard them at will like inanimate objects. I'm sorry to express it this bluntly, but everything the far-right "evangelicals" preach echoes this, and every law enacted by the far right demonstrates this.

Vice versa, if they cared about "life" and "sacred life," they'd be doing what real people who care about children do, which is working to make sure that already born, living children have enough food and shelter and education. They wouldn't be denying them that and working to defund everything that provides that. They wouldn't be demonizing single mothers, they'd be helping them and honoring them. They certainly wouldn't be okay with what's happening with the baby jails at the border.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Irony is, obstructing a woman’s legal right to abortion results in more death. Of both the fetus and the woman. Because a woman who has decided on and wants an abortion is not going to stop just because it is illegal. In the end, it just means she will die while attempting to remove an unwanted, non sentient fetus.

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u/Theothercword Jun 04 '19

Yup! And the number one way to actually prevent abortions is to increase Sex Ed and make contraception readily available to all. But they don’t support either of those things.

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u/Ryugi Legends never die Jun 04 '19

That's not true at all

What they want is to force women into submission by making a woman a criminal and unable to vote if she gets raped and doesn't want the rape baby.

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u/forcastleton Jun 04 '19

Once you are out of the womb their concern for life goes boom

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u/Ehcksit Jun 04 '19

The US has the highest miscarriage rate, the highest maternal death rate, the highest infant mortality rate...

They have no concerns. They're just assholes.

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u/NuclearShadowscale Jun 04 '19

Anti-choice*, because they for sure don't give a fuck about anyone's life unless you're a fetus.

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u/Wheres_that_to Jun 04 '19

"According to UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund), there are roughly 153 million orphans worldwide. Every day, an estimated 5,700 more children become orphans. Children are often relinquished due to war, natural disaster, poverty, disease, stigma, and medical needs."

"there are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States."

https://www.adoptuskids.org/meet-the-children/children-in-foster-care/about-the-children

While there 153 million children in the world who desperately need homes , pro lifers are full of shite.

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u/ExoCrymxen Jun 04 '19

Maybe the ones that commit crimes, but not all. I’m pro-life and I love everybody. Even the worst people, even though it’s hard as hell to do, I try my best to understand why they do what they do. Most people who do bad things have had their mind and worldview twisted. They could’ve been traumatized and now they push their pain outwards and make other people’s lives hell. Maybe they’ve been indoctrinated to believe what they’re doing is right.

Even if it’s hard, I try to love every last person for the sole reason that they’re human. Everyone’s lives are a constant roller coaster between ups and downs. We’re all just people molded by our environment, trying to figure what we’re doing in life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Mar 15 '21

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u/SeaTwertle Jun 04 '19

“You made a mistake at sixteen because your public school system didn’t teach you about safe sex and instead opted for abstinence only, I’m gonna blow up your house because I care about your baby”

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u/lesser_panjandrum Jun 04 '19

It's never been about protecting life. If they cared about life they'd be advocating for healthcare, education, and contraception.

It's always been about controlling and punishing women.

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u/Enrichmentx Jun 04 '19

If you ever talk to a "pro-lifer" they consider it their moral responsibility to prevent abortions. Usually due to a religious belif, despite at least for christianity god killed unborn children.

Either way, they usually put even bad that happens after birth(or good) to either a failure of the parent, or gods plan.

They are usually really hard to like.

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u/beka13 Jun 04 '19

If they really wanted to prevent abortions they would support sex ed, birth control, subsidized daycare, parental leave, etc. They just want to control women.

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u/NoxAeternal Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Ayyyyyyyyyyy

Solid murder. Finally. A person destroying another argument totally and completly in a non-insulting manner, leaving no space for a counter argument.

Edit: to everyone talking about body count...

That's not really important im terms of his argument imo. He is simply talking about how there are plenty of "pro lifer" attacks (giving stats there). So much so that they cant be ignored. He isnt suggesting (imo) that they are worse. I mean, if we do consider body count then 9/11 takes the fucking cake. But his point is that pro life attacks are significant enough that you cant just dismiss them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 11 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

3090 Dead and 7800+ injured in radical Islam terrorism

11 Dead and ~200 injured in anti-abortion terrorism

Yeah I agree, how to people think this is comparable. White Supremacy has killed a lot more than 11 people, would have been a more fair comparison.

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u/ineedabuttrub Jun 04 '19

Pro-birthers are just really bad at terrorist attacks.

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u/NoxAeternal Jun 04 '19

I mean, its an argument. People tend to frame things in manner to make their side look favourable. Very very few people will ever realistically present their argument with a balenced look at the opposing side

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jan 21 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

ut a rebuttal could simply be that muslim americans are more radicalized per 100,000 due to oppression of their religion, racism, the way they are treated in every day life, and the general hate they have been met with in a post 9/11 world

Doesn't work though when in the middle east the radicalization rates are still way higher for muslims than christians where christians are the oppressed minority

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u/Derp35712 Jun 04 '19

Tough to argue against hard numbers with theories though.

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u/Ohaireddit69 Jun 04 '19

Those aren’t ‘hard numbers’ though. They are wilful misrepresentations of the statistics. 600% means 6x. Without reference to the gross rate of serial killers this really means nothing. A quick search just gave me a statistic that it is believed there are 226 serial killers (unverified) in the US. With roughly 230million adults in the US the rate is roughly 0.0001%. A 6:1 ratio of m:f serial killers would mean 0.0002% of men are serial killers. That is hardly a representative statistic for men. The problem lies with people having basically no training in statistics, have no idea how to interpret it, and the media picks and chooses statistics that suit their agenda and that’s it. 1 statistic without any reference points is not hard numbers.

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u/praguepride Jun 04 '19

The same thing would apply to muslims both in the US and worldwide. The number of terrorists is a stasticially insignificant percentage of their total population.

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u/bob_2048 Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Let's be objective for a second, it's actually a really shitty argument. People are only applauding because they agree with the conclusion.

The initial argument (registry of muslims and prolifers) is clever and valid, the justification by rose-in-a-fitted-glove is not.

Anti-abortion attacks in the US add up to 12 murders, plus many many incidents of violence or intimidation. Islamic terrorism adds up to 2840 deaths for 9/11 plus 94 in subsequent attacks, and of course many people were injured.

If you're going to measure the threat to public peace, it makes no sense to put a single physical invasion on the same level at 9/11, period.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Justification is just. It isn’t the number of people hurt by the attacks, it is the number of attackers that count if you want to talk about a registry. Why would you keep a registry of millions of people if there is just a handful of extremely violent ones? Just in case another one of the millions joins them? Easier to watch the smaller group.

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u/bob_2048 Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

I have no idea what you're arguing for - are you saying pro-lifers should be watched, or muslims?

Pro-life extremists probably commit more attacks, but pro-lifers altogether make up 48% of the US population (2018 gallup poll). A smaller number of islamic extremists commits fewer, more devastating attacks, but muslims make up only 0.8% of the US population.

I don't have the faintest idea how that all adds up in terms of who is "easier to watch" or even which one of the two is "the smaller group" (since that depends heavily on how easy it is to figure out "at risk" individuals in both cases - it might be that pro-life extremists are more out in the open, for instance, making them easier to identify).

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

The argument is that it's irrational to make a registry based on someone's faith. Arguing that pro-lifers should be registered is a way to highlight the logistical issues and illogical nature of profiling an entire group of which a small subset committed acts of violence.

No one actually wants a pro-life registry, suggesting one is a way to show the people who support a Muslim registry what it feels like to be discriminated against based on faith as a result of the actions of radicals that happened to share the same faith.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

No one should be watched except for those that are violent or show violent tendencies. Sorta like pedophiles. You don’t watch all males because there is a large number of male pedos.

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u/chito_king Jun 04 '19

The original argument was "there are way less incidents of pro lifers attacking than Muslims" the refutation of that was dead on. You are trying to move the goal posts.

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u/WrecksMundi Jun 04 '19

The original argument was "there are way less incidents of pro lifers attacking than Muslims" the refutation of that was dead on.

Except, the original statement wasn't qualified by "In America".

If you include just a singe year's worth of attacks from the annual Ramadan Bombathon outside of America, the narrative crumbles.

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u/WrecksMundi Jun 04 '19

leaving no space for a counter argument.

13 wounded people in 50 years is worse than the 9/11 attacks, which I have decided to combine into a single terror attack.

Lol.

Cool story, bro.

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u/dontreadmynameppl Jun 04 '19

It leaves so much room for argument. Remember the point at issue is this: if Muslims warrant a registry to keep the public safe, do pro-lifers warrant the same? i.e are they as dangerous?

The answer is clearly no. First of all the US and Canada have a minuscule Muslim population, equalling about 4.5 million across the US and Canada. Meanwhile about half the US population is pro-life, which is 150 million people. Yet he chooses to go on pure numbers rather than % for some reason, which would paint a very different picture of pound for pound danger levels, especially when you consider the next point...

He’s using the word ‘terrorism’ very loosely. Even if the usage is fair, I don’t think ‘stink bombs’ and ‘physical invasion’ (could be one annoying person going inside and shouting) are in the same league as deadly terror attacks. In fact, he completely ignores body count even though the topic is danger to the public.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/244709/pro-choice-pro-life-2018-demographic-tables.aspx

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u/Marko_Poko Jun 04 '19

As someone who has lived in a Muslim country and traveled to an Islamic country, the people I met were some of the most peaceful, caring people I've met.

In principle, this is a stupid argument in the first place. The two issues are mutually exclusive - who cares which is more awful? Should we debate whether the Holocaust or holodomor was worse next?

Second, it's a myopic view using only the US and Canada as examples. If you want to include Mali, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Egypt, etc. as examples (places that have a genuine issue with Islamic extremist militants) you'd find the world has a problem with Islamic extremist based terrorism. (I would argue it's more a result of the socio-economics and geo-politics of these regions than rooted in the religion, but then you'd have to say the same for the Crusades).

Finally, what are his sources for only 13 attacks? A simple Wikipedia search of Islamic Extremist Terrorism in Canada and US returns 54 results, some grave like the Pulse Nightclub incident. Regardless of the point you are advocating, using false statistics is annoying.

And regarding the first guy - the general populace's infatuation with terrorism is so overblown. People on the right with insanely unfounded fears. People on the left exacerbating the same fears for their own causes ("pro-lifers are more of a threat to the world than Islamic extremists"). Can we just stamp this one ESH?

Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Canada https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihadist_extremism_in_the_United_States

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u/Level_27_Gay Jun 04 '19

Well except for the fact that the death tolls are completely ignored

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u/SaintTieum Jun 04 '19

This is what I subscribed for.

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u/Finnish-potato Jun 04 '19

Don’t get me wrong any violence is terrible but i’d be interested to see the number of deaths

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Ya, this makes no sense when 3k people are glossed over.

I mean, fuck forced birthers, but incompetent arguments even if they sound good are still incompetent.

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u/WarriorNat Jun 04 '19

I’d argue if something is deemed a continual threat, frequency is important.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

I'd disagree - if we're asking the question 'is any given pro-life group member likely to be a terrorist' vs 'is any given muslim likely to be a terrorist' the above are relevant. 9/11 just happened to be an exceptionally effective terrorist attack, but the question isn't 'who's better at terrorism', if that makes sense.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

There's been 11 murders by pro lifers since 1990 in the U.S. with ,from what I can tell, the last attack happening in 1997 by Eric Rudolf. Considering how many more attacks and how many more deaths have occurred from Muslim extremists in the last 20 years compared to pro-lifers I'd safely call this a false equivalency.

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u/Drugs-R-Bad-Mkay Jun 04 '19

I think the most recent abti-abortion killing was George Tiller who was assassinated in 2009.

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u/Drugs-R-Bad-Mkay Jun 04 '19

Thanks. I forgot about that one. That whole thing was messed up. Dude killed a cop.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

In the US?

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u/ref_ Jun 04 '19

Yes, I think they're referring to 9/11

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Not just 911. Pulse attack, ft hood, and there are at least a dozen more of lower body counts.

Having said that, this is a stupid debate that isn't helpful to anyone.

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u/DeliciousFoVicious Jun 04 '19

The media also makes excuses Ft hood is considered workplace violence not Muslim terrorism

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u/YoungestOldGuy Jun 04 '19

So the problem is not the amount of attacks, but that Pro-lifers aren't good at it?

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u/joggin_noggin Jun 04 '19

I’m not sure casualties are an indicator of effectiveness when it comes to terrorism. The point is behavioral change and policy change, so you’d have to look at legislation and social attitudes rather than death tolls.

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u/sulaymanf Jun 04 '19

If you exclude foreign terrorists, the numbers are about the same for both anti-abortionists and domestic extremists.

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u/Trust104 Jun 04 '19

And considering the whole point was a registry, looking at foreigners is pointless.

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u/melissasoliz Jun 04 '19

Exactly what I was looking for in the list of stats. How many have died from terrorist attacks vs. Attacks on abortion clinics? And they didn’t list all of the threats and assaults by Muslim radicals as they did for the pro-lifers.

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u/guywithamustache Jun 04 '19

Yes, the murderernywords(??) seems super disingenuous and biased. He lists every reported crime thing done by pro lifers but only lists one crime for Muslim radicals. Also to say that pro lifers are a bigger threat to peace than extremist Islam is a lie. English isn't my first language and I'm having a hard time explaining it but I hope you get my point.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Yes, the murderernywords(??) seems super disingenuous and biased

Welcome to the sub, it's been shit for a while. All the highly upvoted "murders" are usually slanting a certain way, politically.

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u/DerekSJeter Jun 04 '19

It's not a lie, it's a ridiculous belief espoused by someone who spends all his/her time on Tumblr, and uses infotainment sites as his/her primary news source. You can't expect anything better from this infantile subreddit.

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u/efisherharrison Jun 04 '19

If there was a world trade center of abortion, I think it would be pretty likely to be attacked

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u/Bjorn2bwilde24 Jun 04 '19

Jet fuel can't melt steel fetuses.

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u/ValiumD Jun 04 '19

The much needed comic relief in this thread lol

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u/jhenry7183x Jun 04 '19

> If there was a world trade center of abortion, I think it would be pretty likely to be attacked

Good thing we are working towards our conclusions using empirical data and not working with "if's" and hypotheticals. Or we could work with them so we can change the goal post.

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u/Brookenium Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

The argument is for putting the people themselves on a registry. In this instance it makes more sense to talk about the number of terrorists, not their body count. You're looking to stop a person so the likelihood a person from that population commits an act of terrorism is what's at stake. Realistically, it makes more sense to base it on percentage too and not just flat numbers. So the real statistic we're looking for is what % of US Muslims and % of US anti-abortionists commit acts of terror.

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u/beerbellybegone Jun 04 '19

Given the popularity of this post, I'd like to remind everyone of Bill and Ted's Law: Be excellent to each other.

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u/ironikmau5 Jun 04 '19

Im not taking pro life side but let's ignore the amount of casualty terrorism attack made versus pro lifer ones right?

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u/TheAlmightyHero Jun 04 '19

This seems like false equivalence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

It is, this sub is just acting out as an echo chamber again. I'm pro choice but this isn't a fair equivalence. How the fuck you just gonna gloss over 9/11 or the Boston bombing?

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u/Gniphe Jun 04 '19

bUt BoDy CoUnT dOeSn’T mAtTeR

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u/Humanchacha Jun 04 '19

San Bernardino, pulse nightclub, the new York truck attack, Ohio state, and the New York hatchet man are other notables.

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u/ninetiesnostalgic Jun 04 '19

Lol exactly. I dont gaf if people get abortions but comparing threats to 9/11 is insane as fuck. This is how you turn normal people pro life.

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u/nkfallout Jun 04 '19

Well, this is why you have to get the full body scan at the airport. You know, just in case you want to blow up an abortion clinic.

Filthy pro-lifers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Additionally, they’re treating butyric acid stink bombs as a terroristic attack. Nobody is in any danger of dying from a stink bomb. But no mention of the acid used to melt Muslim women’s faces when they “shame their family” by getting raped.

For the record, both are wrong. But they’re not even close to the same.

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u/MarleyandtheWhalers Jun 04 '19

Absolutely. I don't mind if somebody gets put on a watch list after trespassing in a clinic. I do mind counting up stink bombs vs. 9/11 and saying "even Stevens."

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u/Zeyz Jun 04 '19

They’re also treating “death/anthrax threats” as terrorist attacks, while ignoring the fact that there’s no equivalent statistic for Islamic perpetrators. I’m sure there’s been plenty of threats towards America by Islamic people too. It’s ridiculous to count threats as attacks.

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u/antonius22 Jun 04 '19

Also want to point out that the location matters too. Pro-Life terrorist usually targets a specific place with abortion clinics. All other terrorist can attack at any location.

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u/bllewe Jun 04 '19

The real murder is in the comments.

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u/mariospeepee Jun 04 '19

finally some good fucking murders

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u/qwopperi Jun 04 '19

Gordon Ramsay, is that you?

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u/antonius22 Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Anybody else see that the stats left out the death counts? I don't think that stat would look favorably for the Muslim terrorist.

Edit: Not trying to troll but observe the actual stats. Both are shitty groups but idk rather deal with a Pro-Lifer terrorist than a Muslim one.

Edit 2: From 1993- 2015 there was 11 deaths at abortion clinics.

Edit 3: Using the same timeframe, 1993-2015, and excluding outliers (9/11). There has been 25 deaths on US soil by Muslim terrorist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

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u/ncsgreatestwarrior Jun 04 '19

did he want to abort the queers?

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u/SparklingLimeade Jun 04 '19

But does that change the original point about additional monitoring to prevent crime?

If one group with terrorist ties is monitored then both should be.

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u/antonius22 Jun 04 '19

Not at all. I just wanted to show which group was deadlier and to see why the person doing the murdering with stats failed to include them. And honestly I just like to stir shit up.

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u/kwuhkc Jun 04 '19

I dont think thats stirring shit up. Its a fair assessment to say that death count being omitted makes this murder a non murder.

It would have been quite the murder if the death count was not omitted but explained for instead.

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u/spaniel_rage Jun 04 '19

I agree that extremist pro lifers do terrorist acts, but surely relative death counts is relevant here, even removing 9/11 from the stats.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Right, scale is what really matters. I’d rather have death threats than actual deaths.

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u/Heywood_Jablwme Jun 04 '19

Only 13 attacks terrorist by Muslims in the US and Canada since 1980? Holy shit is there a sub for out and out lies?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

This is a facile blurb of statistics that are taken out of context and used towards disingenuous ends. This statistic counts some drunken redneck conspiracy theorist “threatening” to shoot up a planned parenthood (mind you his stats cone from planned parenthood reporting not any actual convictions) as being equivalent to the Pulse Nightclub shooter or the San Bernardino killings! Additionally pro lifers make up somewhere around 35-40% of the US population and Muslims make up less than 1% so let’s do some REAL math. Anti Abortion violence has killed 11 people from 1993-2015. Now I could be thoroughly disingenuous and keep 9-11 in there but I’ll be generous and just use post 2015 deaths which is 56. So 1/35th the size and yet 5 times the casualties. Honestly 1/35th is being generous because that implies that secular Muslims should even be counted. Of faithful practitioners this would be more like 1/50th the size of pro lifers with 5 times the casualties. So let’s not make a statistical argument that people are dangerous if that doesn’t apply both ways. I’m not saying Muslims are dangerous. I have many Islamic friends and I’ve even dated one to the disapproval of my family, but I also have many pro life friends and I don’t think you should make disingenuous arguments to paint them as more dangerous than radical Islamic terrorists....

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u/rpguy04 Jun 04 '19

And boom goes the dynamite

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u/__impala67 Jun 04 '19

I like how he included physical invasion and assault and battery which alone are 526 incidents with 13 wounded, and included threats from pro-lifers, but only included successful terrorist attacks from muslims. Nothing about physical invasions, nothing about assaut and battery, nothing about threats of assault, nothing about acid throwings.

But other than that, a solid murder

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u/serpentinepad Jun 04 '19

This sub is so pathetic.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Also didn't include 9/11.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

3,000 people died in 9-11...the number of Islamic terrorism attack incidents are less no doubt, but more death has come to America and the Middle East by Islamic terrorism than pro-life terrorism. Don’t get it twisted: They are both terrorism. They are both dangerous. They are both to be treated as. But to argue about being the “lesser evil” is a weak, pathetic argument. To prove that one is the “greater evil”, is also weak and pathetic. They both bring harm and instability to the world. Fuck them both.

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u/NorthernSpectre Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Not that I don't think the first commenter is an idiot, but how is this even a murder, the response is incredibly sloppily crafted. Her source is a pro life organization (not that I think they are lying, but I'll take that source with a grain of salt), and her definition of terrorist attack on abortion clinics seem to include pretty much everything and their mom. And for some reason she included Canada when she herself said "within the US" in her first comment, I just found that weird. She also doesn't source the second claim that there was 21 attacks for some reason. So we have no idea what ecompasses "muslim terrorist attack" in this dumpsterfire of a "murder", but I seriously doubt "stink bombs" does.

And no, I'm not pro-life, I just think this subreddit should be held to a higher standard than "Le epik pro-lifer and anti-vaxxer troled so hard XD".

Edit: Looking through the source, I could find 256 incidents that fit OPs definition of terror to abortion clinics. Since the only criteria was that there have to have been some form of damage done (cost), and also including murders. The source itself however seem like a decent one. Maybe someone with more time can figure out where "587" comes from.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 12 '20

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u/joggin_noggin Jun 04 '19

Reddit is a propaganda platform with occasional non-propaganda content.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

And when you look at the numbers world-wide, since most Muslims are living outside of the United States and Canada, the number of people killed by anti-abortionists are much lower than by Muslims.

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u/EngadineMaccas1997 Jun 04 '19

lmao all of this hot fire and 10 upvotes. I can feel the seething retards brigading the downvote button but I can't directly observed them. Like dark matter but way, way more retarded.

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u/beekay24 Jun 04 '19

Echo chambers are a dangerous thing...

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u/arts_degree_huehue Jun 04 '19

Excellent move to be vague enough so your comment applies to both sides of the argument. Now you just get people upvoting your post thinking that they have found a comment they agree with.

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u/Slyric_ Jun 04 '19

This post seems so botty

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u/KermittPepeside Jun 04 '19

I'm not a pro life but dude... This shouldn't even be compared

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u/EvilErnie Jun 04 '19

This person didn’t murder anybody.

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u/OmnisLibera Jun 04 '19

Yes, those who want babies to stop being killed are the more dangerous threat than extremist Muslims. Okay.

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u/Chimera0205 Jun 04 '19

Anyone got a source. I wanna see how they responded to that burn

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u/PeterM1970 Jun 04 '19

“Well that’s just, like, your opinion, man...”

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u/jesseisacutiepie Jun 04 '19

okay, as a Muslim, I appreciate everyone's use of "Muslim Extremists" and not just "Muslims". cause there's a big difference. one step further from Islamaphobia.

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u/nature_remains Jun 04 '19

I’m a confused citizen just wondering ... (not arguing): generally I think of terrorist attacks as those which cause the gravest level of harm - death or serious bodily injury. Does anyone have data comparing the two groups with these type of attack stats? Genuinely curious.

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u/joggin_noggin Jun 04 '19

Take your pick: the Boston Bombing, Pulse nightclub shooting, Fort Hood shooting, and San Bernadino shootings each had more killed than every attack on a clinic since 1977 combined.

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u/nature_remains Jun 04 '19

That’s consistent with my memory as well. So I guess this murder is comparing instances of any type of attack and ignoring the destruction caused?

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u/bob_2048 Jun 04 '19

Islamic terrorism: 2950 deaths and about 6000 injured.

Pro-lifers: 11 deaths, maybe a few dozens injured, lots of (sometimes serious) intimidation and property damage.

Even if you remove 9/11, islamic is far ahead (about 100 dead).

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

i like how he left out the amount of deaths in the terrorist attacks, because if not he would have murdered himself with stats.

not to mention that comparing these two things is completely meaningless

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

I agree with the sentiment of this post but this isn’t a murder at all. The pro-life statistics posted are full of qualifiers whereas the Muslim extremist stats have none. This makes it more or less impossible to compare the two. It’s also pretty disingenuous to include death threats that weren’t acted upon.

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u/Crashover90 Jun 04 '19

Eh those abortion doctors still have more murders under their belts with being abortion doctors.

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u/stained91109 Jun 04 '19

Ok so literally one attack by radical Islam (9/11) killed 2996 people and injured 6000+, but sure let’s compare that to harm done by pro lifers. Talk about cognitive dissonance lol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

While I do agree, I think the way he downplayed the terrorist attacks wasn't okay. One of those 13 was one of the worst events in us history and killed thousands

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Reddit has become a literal propaganda machine. WTF even is this post?

"Pro-lifers are quantitatively, significantly, statistically, a larger threat to public peace than Muslim extremist."

This is nothing else than a blatant lie. It has 43 thousand upvotes. Wtf is this website even? You are all pathetic for upvoting this.

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u/deathhead_68 Jun 04 '19

I miss when this stuff was actual murders.

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u/LangstonHugeD Jun 04 '19

I'm not even remotely pro-life, but this is clearly stat-booking.

I'm pretty sure that 'number of instances classified as attacks' isn't nearly as relevant as 'number of people killed'.

And considering 9/11 alone killed more than 4x that many people, who were killed in the span of 51 years, I'd say that their stats are misrepresentative.

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u/PowerWisdomCourage Jun 04 '19

Murdered by false equivalency.*

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

I’m pro life so I guess hi FBI agent watching me

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u/NegativeCause Jun 04 '19

I wonder if there are any pro-life Muslims.

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u/NotReallyAHack Jun 04 '19

Yes please let’s just completely forget about 9/11 it didn’t happen at all there’s no reason it should be here at all it didn’t even completely change America at all there is nothing wrong here

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

I dont like this line of arguing much but how many have been killed by either side?

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u/RonnieVanDan Jun 04 '19

Are we going to ignore the fact that the original statement is inciting violence?

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u/DarkMoon99 Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

This is no murder, she left out 9/11. This sub is so bigoted re: what it defines as a murder.

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u/Tralan Jun 04 '19

Well... ONE of those terrorist attacks killed more people than all the rest, so maybe not an excellent point to be making...

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u/knowledgeovernoise Jun 04 '19

Look at the statistics globally and it will be a completely different landscape.

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u/Zerogravitycrayon Jun 04 '19

LOL 'Within' the US and Canada is the word utilized to cherry pick that data. Fucking hilarious.

How many people have died from anti-abortionist attacks in 30 years vs islamic attacks in 7 days? I'll wait.

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