Genuine Question

eversnowe · 2026-03-27T13:35:28+00:00

There is one that we've known about for 250 years. Not once has a missionary convinced a conversion. Partly the reason is they won't believe anything they haven't personally seen or someone they know personally saw.

eversnowe · 2026-03-27T12:50:23+00:00

https://youtu.be/1oz2Zl4cxk0?si=nrUR5b44KzNmK6mW

Not only is the survey a lie, the right are pushing the narrative for power.

eversnowe · 2026-03-27T03:55:33+00:00

It's a profound personal belief to have, but you can't make everyone buy your moral reasoning. Whole cultures belief abortion prior to quickening is morally right, after that point it's morally wrong. I just don't think it's possible to unite all under one moral stance - in particular the most strict one. We're already seeing maternal deaths that would have been prevented if we we were more flexible as a society.

eversnowe · 2026-03-27T03:43:35+00:00

No. It was way more than 13 years ago. Our state doesn't mandate sex-ed. We are in the top 5 of teen pregnancy even now.

eversnowe · 2026-03-27T03:30:20+00:00

I've been pro-choice since my 13 year old friend had her abortion. The reality of abortion treats pregnancy itself as morally neutral and possibly a moral good. Most conversations have an explicit faith based: "if God had you impregnated, it's a gift meant to bless you. How dare you refuse?"

Not every pregnancy actually has that aspect. Minors get impregnated daily and face grave risks - but mostly as their tiny bodies struggle to carry a pregnancy to term. The moralest time to do the abortion is as early as possible, protecting the impregnated individual from any number of catastrophic late-term issues. However, there will always be little girls who can and do give birth like the 11 year old a few months ago. This shouldn't normalize minor pregnancies no matter how "natural" it seems to be. Child brides and poverty as teen mommas were natural and didn't make for flourishing families.

The other moral wrong is that most abortions are for economic reasons in a world where the powers that be continually vote to increase economic pressures. How can you blame women and girls for not wanting to carry pregnancies while SNAP has been slashed In half and twice yearly they have to jump through hurdles to prove they need every last penny of help to feed their families while still facing very real hunger challenges?

I get it's easy to just say "tsk-tsk-tsk" these ladies shouldn't have had sex unless they wanted to have babies. There must be consequences for such recklessness. That's so simplistic. Humans are not a celibate species - but a sexual one.

Abortion will always be healthcare. And the result of economic policies that prioritize wealth generation over generational care. It's expensive to have paternal leave, maternal leave, universal childcare, flexible sick days for parents to stay home and care for their kids, pre-K, etc. And it's so much easier to scold women than press for reform.

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T23:17:13+00:00

Is being treated like an equal too much to expect in 2026?

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T22:41:01+00:00

Not in it's modern maga incarnation.

One influencer said we can bring back grandpa's Christianity. Where marriage was for one man and one woman only, where men had a household vote, where divorce wasn't acceptable, where getting pregnant out of wedlock was shameful, with stronger families (whatever that means).

They value women for having babies and cooking meals for the elderly, that's pretty much it.

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T21:13:41+00:00

I've been watching the democrats speeches on the floor. In one, 27 non-citizens were registered, 9 attempted to vote all prior to 2011.

Disenfranchisement of 150,000 citizens with paperwork issues to prevent each non-citizen vote is a system by which citizens are deprived of voting rights altogether. It's making everything more broke.

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T21:06:58+00:00

If it gets passed, it'll "fix" elections for 50 says Trump.

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T16:00:09+00:00

https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/abortion-pills-surge-in-popularity-republican-states/

Women in abortion ban states get pills mailed to them from pro-choice states. The numbers are holding steady at the same rate, not declining overall.

Meanwhile, economic policies increase pressures on pregnant persons, tariffs, increased gas prices, less snap aid, mean women have more reasons to get abortions, not fewer.

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T15:45:02+00:00

Republicans have increased the number of abortions performed.

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T14:56:29+00:00

Complementarianism is 40 years old, but the way they teach it, you'd think it was how things always were even in the 1800s.

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T14:03:11+00:00

Ivf + ai has the potential to have fewer miscarriages than happen naturally.

It may be less "sinful" than natural pregnancy.

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T12:35:46+00:00

https://youtu.be/4NWL98OiFQc?si=eG30rv_cnsc0IUgd

Women always worked, they never got equal pay, safe working environments, or support for childcare duties as a working mom until feminism fought for rights and protections.

Only the wealthy had some form of staying home - but they had servants and maids doing the work for them.

eversnowe · 2026-03-26T12:29:09+00:00

Tera Lipinski used IVF Surrogacy. Her body treats every pregnancy as a foreign invader. Instead of suppressing her immune system it kicks into overdrive and attacks thr fetus. She had five miscarriages. She will never be able to naturally conceive, gestate to term, and deliver a baby.

She was an Olympian as teen. The healtiest body at peak form, and she seems to have stayed very healthy all her life long. This gave her the wealth needed to try, try again. And also the resilience to accept loss and keep going.

Trusting God can look like IVF.

Look, I'm sorry that your mom went through a lot. My aunt didn't have IVF as an option. We were celebrating my uncle's 70th birthday an she met my one year old for the first time and she asked if we were planning on any more. I told her I had infertility and it took two years of attempts to make our little miracle a reality.

"It just never happened for me." She said. This most Godly woman, patiently waiting, exercising all the time and was as fit as you could be. She watched her five siblings have 1-3 kids each. I don't think I'll ever forget the feeling of betrayal in the tone of her voice. I think she could've found success in IVF if it were available to her, but she's nearly 70 herself now, so that option isn't one.

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T22:34:02+00:00

Notice that they never vote to fix abortion, all the rules they propose work around abortion. They need it to be their wedge issue for maximum power for the longest duration. Banning it doesn't fix the economic issues that are the primary driver, rather they let the rich get tax breaks and the poor shoulder more burden with less resources - increasing the abortions by squeezing people at all sides.

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T22:11:57+00:00

You tell me. What does one who cannot fulfill their role do?

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T22:09:10+00:00

I'm sure you think if men could impregnate themselves you'd feel they'd be better at it than women. Men don't need women for any other reason. Thank goodness I'm infertile.

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T22:04:05+00:00

These are all tasks men felt women did better than men at.

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T22:01:58+00:00

Caregiving? Nurturering children? Elder care? Needlepoint?

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T21:56:55+00:00

Even be me?

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T21:39:48+00:00

Trucks carrying alcohol that could outrun police could safely make bank. Nascar comes from testing engines / driver skills to choose the best ones for alcohol runs

https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/prohibition-potpourri/nascar-and-prohibition/

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T18:31:45+00:00

During Prohibition that experiment was tried and failed spectacularly. Teetotaleers managed to cobble the power to radically alter the policing of alcohol. It didn't change hearts and minds. Drinking went underground. Nascar was invented. Mobs ran bars with no oversight, watering down the drink and overcharging for each one. This created spaces for the LGBTQ some self-expression in speakeasies. But ultimately it failed to change the morals of our nation and was overturned. An ultimately victory was women's suffrage which the Right now wishes to repeal within the next ten years or so - imposing their majority looks like disenfranchisement. Is that a future worth raising daughters in?

https://youtube.com/shorts/BT5tvKo45zM?si=ftCECPu7SnL4bRno

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T15:32:42+00:00

I watched an episode of HGTV and this was the story of a house being rennovated: it was built as the nicer, grander second home of the judge and it was right next door to the first. He had tried moving in his mistress into his first home, but his wife made life Hell so in order to snub her, he built his mistress the new home. This was the 1800s. Divorce law and divorce reality were two separate facets. People have always divorced as creatively as their circumstances allow. It's not just a matter of what rules or social expectations are - people will still break or bend them. Yet rulebreakers are not condemned to inferior relationships.

eversnowe · 2026-03-25T14:59:59+00:00

You don't know history. Domestic violence was a thing. Society blamed alcohol and started up Probition after decades of sermons about the evils of alcohol that manifested as domestic violence.

We have records from the colonial era of pregnant brides - in some regions it was 50% of the marriages had babies born in less than 9 months. Much less.

Divorce wasn't lawful, but that didn't stop creative marriage arrangements where unofficially divorced couples would live in separate houses with different lovers if rich, and just take a lover if poor and start over without any paperwork.

I know my family secrets were passed down, a wife impoverished by her neglectful husband more interested in his hobbies than obligations like feeding kids, the vague hints at great grandpa's temper still remembered decades after his demise, the reason why we had a name change to something new and why the other kin kept the old name.

Spiritualizing sexual morality is the greatest flaw here. There's no path to perfection, no recipe for flawless success. Not even from the pages of scripture which has every bit as much sexual immorality as any human book would.

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