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  • Mamertine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’re putting themselves into an awkward position to have to accept that a fetus is a person and thus eligible to receive tax deductions, use the car pool lane, etc.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Republicans will do anything to avoid admitting they were wrong.

      The closest you’re going to get is when they stopped talking about W after it was clear he was a dangerous dipshit in over his head.

      Now they won’t even do that, since Trump is twice the dipshit and a hundred times more incompetent.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      I think they’d gladly accept those changes. I agree that men should be financially responsible from the point of conception but the language of calling it “child support” is definitely intentional and nefarious. They want zygotes to be looked at socially and legally as people to legitimize total abortion bans and the harsh punishments that follow.

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        It also gives the father power over the mother. Just wait for: He pays for it, so he should have a say in whatever the mother does.

          • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@lemmy.world
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            I find incentivizing rape a bit out there. Rape is a crime of violence usually perpetrated with no thought to whether or not their would be a child. This is more nefarious. It continues to erode women’s self autonomy with the end goal to eventually reduce them to little more than breeding stock.

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              If you scroll through incel forums or read the research papers regarding their communities this particular kind of rape and forced birth revenge is an outright fetish in those communities supported by a shameful amount of anime porn that services that particular fantasy.

              Rendering women to breeding stock is definitely the more widespread concern but I am not sure calling it further insentive for rape is actually all that off base.

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              Rape is a crime of violence usually perpetrated with no thought to whether or not their would be a child.

              No, but forcing their victim to go through pregnancy would be an additional “bonus prize” that they could “win”. We see this already in states that are still fucking retarded enough to say that a rapist has paternal rights. These people routinely use that power to further traumatize their victims by trying to assert those rights even from jail. They don’t actually care about the kid – the entire point is to either waste everybody’s time with frivolous lawsuits because they have nothing better to do, or to continue the victimization because the twisted joy they get in making her life miserable gets them off (sometimes, literally).

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      They’re also putting themselves into an awkward position because this impacts men. Reactionaries only want the bae things to happen to other people.