if I were a rhetorical question, I would look like this

[the_siobhan]

Is it possible for somebody who is pro-life and somebody who is pro-choice to be friends?

Is it simply a matter of difference of opinion? Or is it more than that? Is there an underlying difference in values that makes it impossible to be friends?

What do you think?


What I'm listening to right this second: Stromkern

Comments

[panic-girl.livejournal.com]

Is it preferable? (I really don't have the answer. Still mulling it over.
Reading that article, yeah I think it might be. Sociopaths hurt their own children, other people's children, people who aren't children. Clearly these are people who are a danger to others. Tough call though, for sure.

There needs to be a serious system of checks and balances there.

That's one of the scariest things about the condition that Sio posed, and it's the same reason I'm against the death penalty: they are wrong too often. What if the partner was the abuser, but pointed the finger at the mother and she was sterilised? In a zie said/she said situation, how can we ever be sure? I'm not even sure it's fair to do the the mentally challenged, but I have no qualifications to speak in that area.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I'm talking about repeat offenders. If the children a woman is bearing are repeatedly abused by another partner to the point where they have to be removed from custody, then she is not capable of protecting them, and I have no problem with her not being allowed to have any more.

Given that adults have almost absolute power over their children, I very much look upon child-raising as a privilege.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

I very much look upon child-raising as a privilege.

Absolutely. I have always contended that having children is a privilege, not a right.