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<\/a><\/p>\nI was soooooo tempted to go back and make a better chart \u2013 one that really disproved this flippant comparison. \u00a0You know, how protecting sea turtle eggs had no future consequences for the mothers who lay them; how laying the eggs and leaving to go on with their sea turtle lives could not with any intellectual honesty be compared to the medical and emotional issues that must be weighed when a human female gets pregnant; the financial implications of helping a sea turtle hatch as opposed to forcing a woman to go through a pregnancy, birth a child, give the child up for adoption OR keep the child and raise him or her through adulthood; how a sea turtle mommy is not at risk for the emotional trauma that a human mommy is no matter WHICH decision she makes regarding pregnancy, birth and parenthood \u2013 because in my zeal for intellectual honesty, I must NEVER minimize the heartbreak and guilt that goes along with the decision to TERMINATE a pregnancy.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t, though, because when I set out to write this, I vowed to treat this chart with the same level of complex thought as anyone who would seriously try to make the argument in the sign the guy in this picture is holding.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Full disclosure \u2013 I did not take this picture, nor do I know who did. \u00a0I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s new, or if it\u2019s been around for a while. \u00a0I don\u2019t even know if this is an argument any actual thinking human being is attempting to make, or if this guy is being filmed as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[12,147,161,177,214,341,349,350,386,465],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-liberty-genderpoliticsreligion","category-c-happiness-humormemoriesrandom","tag-abortion-rights","tag-endangered-species","tag-federal-protection","tag-gender-issues","tag-intellectual-honesty","tag-politics","tag-pro-choice","tag-pro-life","tag-sea-turtles","tag-womens-rights"],"yoast_head":"\n
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