• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Does learning about count? If so, that I learnt about a belief that claims clumps of cells hold more value than y’know, actual people.

    They don’t give a shit about life, all they want is control, they seek control over people’s bodies, even if it means for the latter to die.

    I never understood how some people can be so warped that they believe it’s wrong to remove a clump of cells to help a woman’s wellbeing, but a-OK for that clump to either:

    a) die anyways and have the pregnant person murdered due to lack of legal access to abortion
    b) or become a child that then gets shot to death a few years later
    c) and if they survive childhood; possibly grow up in a country where they don’t even have full say over their body, nor have affordable living, nor free and universal education & healthcare, nor walkable, safe environments in a landscape free from reactionary media empires. It sows terrible mental health and obesity.

    A certain country has often striked to me as a country of oxymorons in that regard. Vast as it is, there is a wide disparity. Despite the long way they still have to go, the northeast and west coast are much nicer in these regards; but the midwest and deep south have long faced deliberate neglect by wealthy folk.

    It’s something to address, and I believe we can together do that.