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Lyft, Uber lash out at legal threat from strict Texas abortion law

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Re: Lyft, Uber lash out at legal threat from strict Texas abortion law

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Yes. I literally drew the Texas congressional lines in 2000 that set all this in motion and the primary goal of everything the state party does is to purge the state of people that don't vote Republican.

Wait what -- is this for real?

Afraid so.

Re: Lyft, Uber lash out at legal threat from strict Texas abortion law

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2. Or it will just cause the women to get abortions elsewhere, or let the kids grow up in homes that can't support them. Not to mention the extra loads of single moms (or dads). No one will be "saved". What it's more likely to accomplish is to make Texas even more republican, and to make the US appear even more crazy to the outside world.

Adoption is an option, and you have no idea who that child could become. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption because abortion wasn’t legal at the time.

We can only begin to judge people as individuals once they have gained agency and self-awareness. If we're going to turn the argument into a contest of silly clichés, then how do I know whether a given fetus is going to grow up to become the next Jobs or the next Hitler?

You can't define a clump of cells as "good," "evil," or, indeed, as "human." Your own holy book makes no attempt at doing so. If you insist on enforcing your unsupported opinion at gunpoint, it can only happen at the cost of our own free will... just as seen here.

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