tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post6223505311485199707..comments2022-11-12T06:19:52.363-05:00Comments on Rants from the Hormonally Challenged: Women Are People TooLolamousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12508347229501155001noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-62455328436653935372011-10-31T21:43:05.717-04:002011-10-31T21:43:05.717-04:00I read a comment on a forum that I think is a fant...I read a comment on a forum that I think is a fantastic protest: Every time a woman is late she should trot down to vital records to apply for a birth certificate. When she gets her period go back for a death certificate. I think they should take it a step further and try to claim a first trimester fetus as a dependent on an income tax form. We should be as ridiculous as they are being.Henri B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00892218291117471971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-24875278511674378842011-10-31T15:24:54.544-04:002011-10-31T15:24:54.544-04:00Truth Seeker: Depends on how far the "Personh...Truth Seeker: Depends on how far the "Personhood" folks want to take things on the birth control pills issue. Generally, if they work as they should and if they're taken as they should be, they prevent ovulation and/or fertilization. However, in theory they could also prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. There would be no way of telling whether there is a theoretical "person" or not. Do theoretical persons have rights? Theoretical rights? Ugh. Pass the Advil!Lolamousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508347229501155001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-67281270071510476962011-10-31T14:50:25.133-04:002011-10-31T14:50:25.133-04:00When I heard about the ballot initiative a few day...When I heard about the ballot initiative a few days ago, I was wondering if you were going to rant about it. The proposal takes things to a frightening extreme, although not necessarily as far as you say. For instance, standard birth control pills prevent ovulation, meaning that fertilization doesn't occur so there is no "person" (see http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control/birth-control-pill-4228.htm). Also, the measure wouldn't ban IVF but it would make it potentially riskier, because all embryos would have to be transferred into the woman. IVF would also be much less effective, because doses of drugs would have to be reduced to ensure fewer embryos and consequently less risk. Also, PGD, the prevention of genetic diseases by inserting only the embryos that don't have the genes for the disease, would be illegal. <br /><br />All in all, it's frightening for the significant percentage of the population who can only have children through IVF.Truth Seekernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-33340547321867045562011-10-31T14:36:28.396-04:002011-10-31T14:36:28.396-04:00nene: Well, if the threat of blindness doesn't...nene: Well, if the threat of blindness doesn't get those self-gratifiers to stop, then laws will just have to be put into place!<br /><br />Fireblossom, Eric "Bubba" : If the homosexuals would just go visit Michele Bachmann's husband, he could cure them of their affliction and then they could be "persons" too!Lolamousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508347229501155001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-23198303467210608372011-10-31T13:47:30.402-04:002011-10-31T13:47:30.402-04:00Apparently you're only a 'person' unti...Apparently you're only a 'person' until you discover you're gay.Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-30465566927807194852011-10-31T13:03:08.273-04:002011-10-31T13:03:08.273-04:00Without intending of being perversely crude in the...Without intending of being perversely crude in the strictest puritanistic sense of this view and to further extremes that these zealots will go to in their inimitable way and on a moral basis (the right wing tea party), male masturbation will be outlawed. On the basis of the potential seed of life being wasted for personal gratification (Reference "Labels: embryos and other people, idiots give me migraines, keep your laws off my body"nenehttp://nene-lifewhispers.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-57360198369041985812011-10-31T11:48:02.575-04:002011-10-31T11:48:02.575-04:00"When the term “person” is applied to a parti..."When the term “person” is applied to a particular class of human beings, it is an affirmation of their individual rights. In other words, to be a person is to be protected by a series of God-given rights and constitutional guarantees such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."<br /><br />Unless you're gay, in which case, amendments should be written into state and local constitutions in order to deny you your rights and pursuit of happiness. Go figure.<br /><br />"Pre-born" persons. Is that like a "pre-owned" Toyota? Can I ask for the Kidfax? I mean Carfax? Oh, I'm so confused.<br /><br />And "unalienable"? That's ingrammatical! :-P Maybe the simple act of having to type a-l-i-e-n made them go cold with terror at the thought of brown people pouring across the border with their pre-born persons squirreled away inside them, who would then expect "unalienable" rights and so forth, which we simply shouldn't give them!<br /><br />Gawd, now I have a headache, too!Fireblossomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com