"Kids Aren't People!"

[DeadpanDoubter]

So saith anti-choice protesters:

Among other things, the injunction permits protesters, but only four at a time and they must stay on the other side of the street.

Yesterday, the clinic had to call the police (again) because the protesters had (again) violated the terms of the injunction. There were four women on the sidewalk and together they had three kids in strollers. In my world, four plus three equals seven. When told they were violating the injunction, they argued that "four people" did not include children.

[ironbite]

Oh...oh wow. My brain is on fire now.

Ironbite-that's just...wow.

[Jodie]

Of course they're not people. Once they are out of the womb they are nothing.

[MaybeNever]

Kids aren't people. They're a source of cheap labor in their later years, and inexpensive fertilizer in their younger ones. Then they hit 18 and they become soldiers, who are also not people.

[Aqualung]

....also, there goes another irony meter.

[Thejebusfire]

So, feti are people, but children are not.

Good to know that.

[Shane for Wax]

At least Soylent Green is people!

[MaybeNever]

Apr 26, 2011 14:30:45 GMT -5 Thejebusfire said:

So, feti are people, but children are not.

Good to know that.

Actually, this raises a point. If a pregnant woman is standing there, does she count for two? What if she's bearing quadruplets?

[Old Viking]

Feti my ass.

[foolishwisdom]

So...someone else's semi-developed child, which could have complications, is more of a person then your own children?

Though, to be fair, I doubt all anti-choicers are like this.

[deusmalum]

You gotta love the deep, rich irony in that.

[m52nickerson]

Apr 26, 2011 14:51:19 GMT -5 deusmalum said:

You gotta love the deep, rich irony in that.

Deep, rich, corinthian leather irony!

[The Lazy One]

OK, so a fetus is potential people.

I also acknowledge that a baby human or older is people.

So... they agree with the first but not the second?!

Ow. My brain hurts.

[Smurfette Principle]

The irony! It burns!

[discoberry]

Apr 26, 2011 14:32:37 GMT -5 MaybeNever said:

Apr 26, 2011 14:30:45 GMT -5 Thejebusfire said:

So, feti are people, but children are not.

Good to know that.

Actually, this raises a point. If a pregnant woman is standing there, does she count for two? What if she's bearing quadruplets?

If life begins at conception how was I charged with minor in possession of alcohol at 20?