MY CHALLENGE TO DONALD TRUMP: An Open letter from a resistance fighter.

Hello Donald.

We haven't personally met, so let me introduce myself. My name is Leia. I am a 31 year old high -functioning autistic from the midwest who has been paying close attention to what is going on in my country. I recently came upon your speech saying that you wish to possibly try to " revoke" the licenses from media stations who you deem to be fake so that they cannot continue to speak out against you. To the best of my knowledge, you have not threatened to pursue any actions beyond that. I am writing this blog post for two reasons. One is to confront you and the other is a request to other writers here and abroad.

My message to you is rather simple and can be summed up in one sentence, You are free to come and get me if you so desire. I do not feel intimidated by your threats against free speech and I am not afraid to stand up and speak out against  you or any other injustices I witness, no matter the consequences to my person. I value freedom enough to publicly take this stand and say that anything you plan to do to those whom you perceive as defying your leadership is worth the price in order to keep democracy alive. I am not the first person in history to have to make a proclamation such as this and sadly I will not be the last. But I consider it an honor to be in a situation where I can do so. 

My second message is to all other writers here and around the world. I urge you to join me in making a blogpost such as this stating that you too are willing to sacrifice anything in order to ensure that freedom abounds wherever you are. Join me in sending a clear message that attacks on our civil liberties will not be tolerated as long as we are around. I look forward to seeing responses to this and to reading the blogs from others. Until then, in the words of my namesake, General Leia Organa Solo ,MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.

Lions and tigers and Arab migrants oh my....

So it is official. Donald J Trump is the 45th president of the United States. And may I say, it has been interesting. During his first 100 days in office he has issued numerous executive orders that have been met with much resistance by a plurality of the public. I would like to focus on just one such order for this blog post; his order to ban travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Since September 11,2001, and even before, the threat of terrorism has been an ever present possibility in the minds of most Americans, myself included. Hardly a week goes by that we are not bombarded with some news report of a militant group somewhere in the world wreaking havoc on civilization in the name of some bronze age misinterpretation of a religion. Donald Trump capitalized on this fear during his presidential campaign and promised the American people that he would be the " law and order" president that would rein in these terrorist groups. He has stated that this ban is an attempt to protect the American populace " until we can improve our vetting system enough to ensure we are safe." Let me start by saying that the threat of terrorism is a real and legitimate fear and that I am in full agreement that we should continue to improve ways of vetting people who want to enter our country from anywhere in the world. I must, however, object to many of the arguments made by Donald and his supporters for this particular order. I will cover some of them in this blogpost with my personal rebuttals.

One argument I hear is that the people who want to come into America from these countries would bring with them backwards ideologies and cultures since their way of life is diametrically opposite of modern western society. The argument goes that if we let in too many people from these lands  the human rights violations that are endemic in those societies will become tolerated and common place in our country.  I will say that I agree with the statement that people originating from the middle east in particular are coming from a very different world than one most Americans are accustomed to. I will also agree that there ARE problems with abuses, particularly of women, in those societies that the residents of those societies and the world at large need to address. Despite this, I do have some problems with this argument. First, the practices that are common in the 7 banned countries are widely practiced in other countries NOT included in the ban. So the ban would not ensure that we would not have people from that way of life coming here anyway, South Africa is called the rape capital of the world. One in four men ADMITS to committing rape in that country. There are places in New Guinea where rape is so prevalent that women do not leave their houses without first inserting female condoms. The MAJORITY of people in India think marital rape should not be considered a crime. Russia just decriminalized certain forms of domestic violence, with a 50% approval rating from the public. Should we also ban people from THOSE societies from coming here because their beliefs systems are too backwards and dangerous? Third, it is noteworthy that our own dear America has her own past sins to beg forgiveness for. There was a time when the majority of people thought slavery was a sound institution. Before the 20th century, there were few laws regulating child labor. Women could not vote until 1920. Contraception was completely illegal for everyone until 1965. Only 4% of white Americans approved of interracial dating in 1957. Should we look back on our ancestors and think that they should have been denied assistance, aid or entrance to other parts of the world because their beliefs systems were appalling? And what beliefs and practices do we CURRENTLY accept that generations from now will look back on and find barbaric?  Speaking on a personal note, there are MAJORITY opinions that Americans hold that I find hideous. Most Americans think we should ban Syrian refugees. Most Americans think the government should not pay for abortion care. Not to mention that there are small subsets of people, such as the Ku Klux Klan, that I have little to no common ground with. But I assure you that if some disaster were to befall our great republic and there was a need for us to flee as refugees, I would STILL want every last American, regardless of how deplorable I find their beliefs, to find a safe haven. Why? Because they are human beings and that automatically grants them a certain level of protection in my worldview. It is also worth mentioning that there are other WESTERN nations that are more progressive than we are that would and probably do find the American way of life a little bizarre to say the least. 85% of Swedes identify with being atheist or agnostic compared with 90% of Americans that believe in GOD. The right to abortion is practically an accepted fact in Norway. Their government pays for it and they are regularly performed in hospitals. Denmark bans corporal punishment of children whereas half of Americans approve of spanking children as a legitimate disciplinary action. Would most Americans be ok with these countries denying us entry due to the fact that our way of life is a " little behind the times" of theirs? This argument also fails to acknowledge that there are probably GOOD aspects of those cultures that could be an asset to ours. America is called the great melting pot for a reason. It is because we say that our strength is in our diversity. Or at least that is what we say.

The second most common argument I hear being made in support of this ban is that there is no way that we can absolutely ensure that the people coming into our country from these regions do not have harmful intentions towards us. They are right. Despite the fact that we have a very good system already in place to weed out the good apples from the bad, the system is not surefire in its security. I would like to point out though that we Americans regularly accept other flawed systems that result in grave injury and sometimes even death to our citizens without the level of sensationalist fanfare that this ban seems to be generating. Despite the fact that we have the government agency of the FDA to test all products for safety before they hit the market for public consumption, recalls happen. We have federal background checks for people entering professions that require intense interaction with children. Sadly, some predators fall through the cracks. We test automobiles and other heavy machinery for glitches before they are released to the public. Tragically, malfunctions happen and people sometimes die as a result. In regards to the death penalty, innocent people are sometimes convicted of crimes despite a " vetting process" by a jury of their peers. We have even executed innocent people. Yet a majority of Americans still support the death penalty. And to the best of my knowledge, no one is panicking over the fact that the other agencies I just mentioned are not error proof. As i previously stated, I am in full agreement that we should continue to develop ways of perfecting these systems to ensure better outcomes. Every death or injury is a tragedy. But just because a utopian ideal has not yet been achieved doesn't mean that I support shutting down all of it " until we can figure out what the hell is going on" as Donald Trump so infamously stated during his campaign run. Why is it that flaws in these other areas of our government are found to be tolerable by the vast majority of our citizens but for some reason vetting systems for groups such as refugees and immigrants are held to an immaculate standard? I suspect ulterior motives in that much of this rhetoric and fear mongering is motivated by a hatred of people from those regions. 

The third most common argument I hear is that we cannot let people from these places into our country because of what has played out on the European stage in regards to the deluge of people from Arab nations arriving either as refugees or residents. There have been numerous attacks, the most recent being in December in Berlin, of people from these nations who have committed attacks in the name of ISIS. On new years eve in Cologne Germany in 2015, a group of men of Arab descent sexually assaulted a group of German women, sending a shockwave through the world. Many groups roundedly condemned the feminist community at large because most were too afraid to speak out about the incident for fear of enticing violence against arabic people. I strongly condemn the silence of this attack by my sisters in the movement and it is my sincerest hope that the perpetrators of such barbarity were apprehended and punished to the fullest extent of the law. What I have noticed though, is that there is few, if any, mention of the fact that many people from Arab nations have and are currently being the recipients of hate crimes against them BY EUROPEAN citizens. There was a case recently in England of a pregnant women who was beaten so severely that she miscarried both of her twins. There are also reports of unattended Syrian refugee children who have become prey for human traffickers, many of whom are also European citizens. There is good and bad in EVERY group. We could spend all day cherry picking anecdotes to demonize the other side but in the end, we must remember that just because some peoples of these nations mean us harm does not mean they all do. There are also many stories coming out about Syrian refugees who are spreading random acts of kindness to their European counterparts. The day after the sexual assault attacks in Cologne, Germany , a group of Syrian refugees went around the city and handed out free flowers to passing women in an attempt to say how sorry they were for what happened to their city. There is a Syrian refugee boy in Berlin who is now volunteering for free at a soup kitchen in order to give back to Germany for taking him in.

The fourth most common argument I hear is that this is not a "muslim ban" because 85% of muslims around the world live in countries where they are not barred from entering the U.S. in this order. I must disagree. Donald Trump even said during his run that he wanted to create a muslim ban, that he would not role out forming a muslim registry, that mosques should be monitored and that Islam was incompatible with the west. He also has yet to speak out against terrorism directed at muslim communities both here and abroad. Former mayor Rudolph Guliani also let it slip during an interview that Donald Trump called him up and asked him how to form a muslim ban through any legal loopholes he could find. 

The Statue of Liberty famously states " Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I still believe these words to be true and that they should set the standard for American as to how we should treat foreigners. It remains to be seen if Donald Trump will follow suit. 

Dear Trump Voters: Here is what I need you to know

Anyone who has been following my blog for any amount of time knows that I always start my post with the preface that I in no way intend to cause discord among the people viewing it and that I respect all viewpoints equally. 

 

But not this time. Not this time.

This post is to anyone who voted for Donald Trump but it will mainly be aimed at my family and friends, who I hold dear. Here is what I need you to know.

 

I love you. You are a valuable person in my life and you are my friend.  And nothing will ever change that.  Not even this election. I hold no hatred in my heart for you OR Donald Trump and I wish neither of you harm. The night before the election I stated that no matter who you voted for I would remain by your side, and I meant it and still mean it.  If any of you decide to remove me from your life, either temporarily or permanently, because of what I am about to say, I will not blame you and I will not hold it against you. I will be ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED to see you go. But I will respect your choice and will believe that you had valid reasons for doing so. I will pray for Donald Trump and for our country.  But the world that you and I built our friendship upon has changed. I HAVE changed as a result of this election. I am not the same person I was before Tuesday night. My eyes have been opened to an America that I didn’t want to believe existed but, I suppose deep down, always knew did.  People forget that when they go into that voting booth they are not just voting against something, they are voting FOR something.  Always.  And what Donald Trump is “for” is fundamentally opposed to everything I value about human life. So, in honor of his election, here is what I need you to know.

 

I no longer consider you an ally with me in the fight against sexual violence. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who has been accused by 13 women (not including a 13 year old girl) of sexual assault. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who bragged about being able to grope women’s pussies  just because he was powerful.  You forfeited that right when you elected a man who, when confronted about these comments, dismissed them as locker room talk and gave an insincere apology. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who bragged about going into pageant locker rooms unannounced so he could check out the women. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who when confronted with the accusation of sexual assault by one of his accusers, responded with “ trust me, she would not be my first choice.”  You forfeited that right when you elected a man who, upon seeing a 10 year old girl, said “I will be dating that in 10 years.” You forfeited that right when you elected a man who, when somewhat laughingly called a sex offender on the Howard Stern show, literally laughed and shrugged it off.  You forfeited that right when you elected a man whose ex-wife once accused him of rape. 

I no longer consider you an ally with me in the fight against the bullying epidemic sweeping our nation. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who criticized women for their weight and made disparaging remarks about women’s breasts. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who made a joke about Megan Kelly about bleeding out of her whatever. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who, when criticized twitter, lashes out at others in the most juvenile of ways. 

I no longer consider you an ally with me in the struggle for LBGT rights. You forfeited that right when you voted for a man who chose as his running mate a man who supports conversion therapy for gays and who signed off on a bill in his state that would allow private businesses to refuse service to a member of the LBGT community based upon personal beliefs. 

I no longer consider you an ally with me in the struggle for human rights. You forfeited that right when you voted for a man who said we should kill the innocent family members of SUSPECTED terrorists. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who said he wanted to bring back torture even if, and I quote “it doesn’t work.” 

I no longer consider you an ally with me in the fight for international diplomacy. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who is so thoroughly disliked across the world that even the Pope spoke out against him.

I no longer consider you an ally with me in the fight for environmental preservation. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who denies climate change and has already stated that he intends to nominate a man to the EPA board who believes the same. 

I no longer consider you an ally with me in the fight for religious liberty. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who wants to ban an entire religious group, Muslims, from entering the country

I no longer consider you an ally with me in the fight against racial prejudice and belief. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who referred to a man at one of his rallies as “My African American.” You forfeited that right when you elected a man who has been endorsed by  the The Klu Klux Klan and other white nationalist groups. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who had people at his rallies yelling “ fuck that nigger” when speaking about Obama and yet remained silent about such rhetoric. 

I no longer consider you an ally with me in recognizing the bravery of our amazing military family. You forfeited that right when you elected a man who when speaking about John McCain, a POW survivor and hero, that he would rather elect the man who got away.

I can only imagine how this blog post of mine has offended you. But I suppose for those of you closest to me, you know it is not in my nature to stay silent when I perceive an injustice happening in my presence. To do so would be to betray the core of my being. I have made it a point all my life to surround myself with people from all walks of life. I do not regret that decision. I get it. I really do. Few people liked the choices we were left with this election cycle, including myself. If you dislike or even detest Hilary Clinton, you have valid reasons for doing so. But Trump is not a stupid man. Demagogues rarely are. He was counting on using the frustration and fears of average citizens to cause enough of a backlash that he could use it to his advantage and get elected. His strategy worked. It often does, as history continues to show us. You might be of the opinion that this blog of mine is too divisive. You are right. It is divisive. I intend it to be so. But perhaps before you ridicule me for writing such a blog, you should have considered that you elected a man whose ENTIRE platform was about causing division, not inclusion. You voted for division. You got it. Here it is. I do not know what the next four years have in store for us and the rest of the world, but here is what I DO know. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Two Americas have emerged this week. Two polar opposite visions of what America should look like and stand for are now before us. Both sides have their strengths and their weaknesses as no movement or ideology is perfect. But I have decided to pick a side. I have decided to pick the side that I see as being the most loving, most just, most inclusive, most humane as these are the values that I hold dearest and which guide my life.  I am ready to fight for my side, are you ready to fight for yours?

 

                                                                                                                                                        Love to you all,

                                                                                                                                                                Leia Peison

The most terrifying part of Donald Trump's abortion comments? They make sense

Unless you have been living in an underground lair for the past week( or maybe just Amish) you would know abortion has been in the headlines a lot, particularly in regards to our potential presidential candidates and and what policies they would like to see enacted nationwide. One candidate, Donald Trump, did s,etching I have never seen an anti-abortion rights candidate ever do. He took responsibility for the fallout that would logically follow from his ideological stance. He has since retracted his stance, but the damage is done. He single handedly exposed perhaps the BIGGEST   Inconsistency of the anti choice movement. He stated on a tv show during a forum that if abortion becomes illegal, there should be s,e sort of punishment for women who acquire them despite the law. Pro choice groups justly and rapidly condemned his outrageous comments as archaic and misogynist, which they are. But the response from the anti abortion community? Well that is where things get interesting. I wish I could say I was surprised by the responses but alas, I was not in the slightest. Major figures in the anti abortion rights movement swiftly and soundly condemned his comments saying that they have no such intentions of punishing women and that women who abort are victims of a predatory abortion industry that preys upon their vulnerability. To those of us in the reproductive justice movement, this rhetoric is nothing new.  Indeed it is standard. The anti choice movement relies upon the caricature of a scared and desperate woman who just doesn't know better in order to pass their paternalistic laws that women must be "protected" from abortion and thereby must undergo such things as mandatory ultrasounds and also forcing clinics to close due to imaginary threats of abortion clinics not being up to par with safety even though they do not insist on such safety measures for medical procedures that are far more dangerous than abortion. But spend any amount of time on an abortion debate forum, or better yet, spend time escorting women into abortion clinics as I have and you will see pretty quickly that such sentiments are a farce. Anti choice protestors routinely harass women entering such facilities and even sometimes perpetrate acts of violence against employees of such institutions. The truth is that anti choice organizations are not upset with the idea of imprisoning women for abortions as Donald Trump espoused. They are upset that Donald Trump exposed their true motives. If anti choicers sincerely do not wish to see women punished for abortion, they don't have to wait for abortion to become illegal in the country. There have been several cases within the last few years of women being punished for self aborting, which raises another thorny question that I wish Donald had been asked. For the sake of argument I will accept the mainstream anti choice movement's position that only those who perform abortions should be punished and not the women who undergo them. What then happens to women who self abort? Also if anti choicers do not want to imprison women for abortion, then why do they do so in countries where abortion is illegal?

To go on a Segway here, I feel compelled to take a moment to address a particular argument I have often encountered when conversing wth people within this movement. In regards to the topic of abortion concerning rape induced pregnancies, a common defense for banning abortion for these victims is that when a woman is raped, she is a victim but when she aborts any resulting pregnancy, she then becomes a perpetrator. Yet now the same people who use that argument are now saying that women who undergo abortions are not culpable for doing so. They can't have it both ways. Indeed, they can't have it both ways on the topic of punishment either. When has there ever been a law against something without a legal consequence for anyone who breaks it? Donald Trumps comments were awful, but not be use they were illogical but because the entire mission of the anti choice movement is awful. It is difficult if not impossible to berate women who abort as filthy baby killing whores ( yes an actual term I have heard used) and then to coddle them as helpless victims of their own stupidity in the next and seek to excuse their behavior instead of punish it. The anti choice movement has two choices. They can accept the current legality of abortion and leave women who procure them the heck alone both socially and politically or they can follow their own medieval logic to its logical and misogynist conclusion and ban it while simultaneously imprisoning women who have. It remains to be seen which one they will choose.

How do you solve a problem like Syria?

I am writing this on Friday November 20, 2015, exactly one week from the terrorist attacks in Paris. Like most of the world I have been in a daze the past week over the shocking level of brutality committed by radicals in the name of some misbegotten interpretation of their religion. Perhaps some people are numb from hearing reports such as this considering how common they are in the word. For whatever reason, I am not. I want to preface my following statements by saying that I respect differing viewpoints and fully understand that there are valid opinions other than my own. This blog is just MY PERSONAL stance on the subject of the ensuing Syrian refugee crisis and how the world, and particularly the United States, should respond. Over the past week I have seen several arguments for and against allowing Syrian refugees to enter America. I would now like to cover a few of them and give my rebuttals with a conclusion of what I think needs to happen regarding this crisis.

One argument I keep hearing is that we should not allow them in because we " already have people here in need of assistance." I get it. Our country is a mess with rampant unemployment and  homeless veterans. These are issues we can and do need to address. My problem with this sentiment though is that prior to this crisis it did not seem like there were so many people who found the state of our country intolerable. I honestly wonder how many of the people who are using this argument call their congressional representatives regularly to demand better treatment for our underprivileged citizens. It is also worth noting that EVERY country in the world has poor people in it. Should every country in the world reject these refugees because they have not yet made their own lands a utopia? While I am on the subject, why not cut off immigration altogether until we have completely eradicated poverty?

Perhaps the most common argument I hear is that it is just plain unsafe to allow the refugees in because there may be secret ISIS members that have infiltrated them. I understand the fear. I do not want to relive the horror of 9/11 over again anymore than anyone else does. It is true that as long as America allows refugees or ,indeed, even tourists or immigrants from any land into the United States, there WILL be bad apples in the bunch. No vetting process can completely screen out evil intentions as no scanner can survey the human heart. This is also true of our own citizens. As long as American citizens keep having babies, some of them will grow up and either commit extreme acts of violence against other Americans or possibly even other nations. The only way to stop this would be to get the human race to become antinatalist and that is a blog for another time. There is an old saying that history repeats itself. This past week, I have seen that truth unfold right before my eyes. During world war 2 Americans overwhelmingly rejected the idea of allowing European refugees fleeing the Nazi regime to enter America due to fears that some might be Nazi spies or sympathizers. As a result hundreds if not thousands perished in the concentration camps after being denied asylum in the states. Going back even further to the Titanic, the people in the lifeboats were afraid to go back to rescue survivors in the water for fear that they would swamp the boats. Make no mistake, taking in refugees WILL cost the citizens of the United States. It will cost Americans because it would be an act of heroism and heroism always costs the hero something. What makes heroes different from everyone else is that they are willing to put their own welfare in jeopardy for the sake of someone else. History is a terrific teacher. We the people of the United States have made grave mistakes in the past regarding our treatment of not only our own citizens but those who wish to come here. We have a chance to make a different choice with this current situation. You can sit in the lifeboat if you want. As for me, I am grabbing an oar.                                                      REFUGEES WELCOME

Open letter to a movement

Cosmopolitan Magazine recently had an article on the annual crisis pregnancy center conference. In it one of the leaders stated that it is their job at crisis pregnancy centers to “protect” women from abortion just like “ an adult teaches a small child not to touch a hot stove.” This type of rhetoric is of course nothing new to us who work for reproductive justice. Laws all over the country disguised in the cloak of “wanting to protect women” have been passed in order to save women or so they say. Everything from TRAP laws designed to close down clinics to bans on telemedicine or forcing doctors to lie to patients about the risks of breast cancer from abortion even though that has been thoroughly debunked. In a way I am very glad that this woman said this. She did my job for me by exposing what is at the heart of the anti- choice movement: a paternalistic worldview that sees women as helpless individuals incapable of making their own decisions who need someone to make them for them because they do not have the intelligence to do it themselves. Never forget folks what these people are really about. In response to this insane ideology I have only this to say.
ANTI-CHOICERS: I do not need to be rescued. I am a grown woman with the life skills necessary for making decisions and accepting whatever consequences good or bad might come from them. I have stated before that should I ever become pregnant abortion will be my choice although I hope to never need one. If my life ever goes down that path, I will accept any fallout from that decision whether it be positive or negative. And the women of this world do not need you to lead them like wandering sheep about to fall into a creek. We are a strong capable people who own our choices and none of those choices concern you.

More strawmen to light a cornfield with

http://bluecollarphilosophy.com/2012/01/if-casey-anthony-was-raped-then-pro-choice-logic-dictates-caylees-life-had-no-value/

:IF CASEY ANTHONY WAS RAPED, THEN PRO CHOICE LOGIC DICTATES THAT CAYLEE'S LIFE HAD NO VALUE"

It is a bad sign when the very TITLE of an article is a strawman. NO ONE SAYS THAT! Pro choice people have adopted children born of rape as well as raised them. It is pro-CHOICE, as in women have a choice to abort or not.

"What is the cry of the pro-abortion Left in regards to abortion?"

More strawmen. It is pro-CHOICE not pro abortion. You refer to us as such in your title. Why the change now? And it is our "cry" for very legitimate reasons. Rape is about power and NOTHING would make a rapist happier than to know he can literally choose any woman he wants for his own personal breeding machine. 32,101 women in America ALONE every year become pregnant through rape. 20% of teen pregnancies are a DIRECT result of rape. Not to mention in 31 states rapists have the SAME PARENTAL RIGHTS as other men to any children they sire. 

" No woman should be forced to give birth to a child she does not want, but even more so if that child is the product of a rape."

Yep, truth right there folks. Thanks to modern contraception and abortion techniques, we can make sure that children are born only when their parents truly want them. It is called progress.

 " Liberal blogs regularly attack any attempt to restrict abortion, and if you oppose abortion even in the case of rape, you are some sort of moral monster in their eyes"

We attack such restrictions for good reason. The situations that lead women to abort are too complex for any legislator not personally involved to know what is the right course of action. And yes, opposing abortion in cases of abuse is beyond the pale to most people for reasons that should be obvious. To take away reproductive choice from a person who was ALREADY forced into said situation is exponentially increasing the abuser's control over them.

" If we allow the means of conception to substantively impact the value of the thing created, then at no time can the value of the thing change."

It isn't about devaluing anyone based on conception circumstances. It is about recognizing that to give rights at conception is to devalue the BORN.

  "I have previously argued that Casey Anthony should be considered a feminist heroine since she essentially had a late-term abortion. In this case I am referring to the life of Caylee Anthony and her possible conception through rape."

I know people in your camp LOOOOVE to exploit late term abortions even though over 90% of abortions take place in the first trimester, but the truth is this doesn't even come close! Abortion involves pregnancies. There was NO PREGNANCY INVOLVED in the crime of Caylee's death. And where in the heck do you get off saying that women who abort are automatically heroines? There are plenty of women who have not aborted that are respected within the pro choice community. And her possible conception through rape? So we arn't even sure if that is the truth. And considering how Casey is a chronic liar, I would not be too surprised if she was lying about this.

" Upon conception, there is nothing added or subtracted from the developing baby."

Bullcrap! If that was true it wouldn't take 9 months to come out. And the point is that you can't give human rights to an embryo without stripping the woman of her humanity in the process. Contraceptives fail, rape happens, birth control sabatoge happens. These are realities and abortion is the medical procedure to help minimize the damage done by these tragedies.
  

"It is a continuous process where a substance, a person, grows in a non-degreed sense. Meaning that from conception to death one is fully human at all times."

A continuous process? I thought you said everything was complete from the beginning? 


"If we adopt the Left’s view of personhood, then it can be degreed and the power to decide that is with the mother or the State."

Or the state? I am not sure why the state would really be involved in the final decision as it rests with the woman.

"Not only that, her mother, Casey, was well within her rights as the mother to take Caylee's life anytime she saw fit."

More strawmen. NO ONE is advocating infanticide. Ironically, countries that have outlawed abortion have HIGHER rates of infanticide and child abandonement than countries with legal abortion. 


"One would also have to tell others who came into existence through rape that their lives were not valuable as a result."

There are pro choice individuals who were born from acts of rape. Next....

"The pro-choice position, which is really a pro-abortion position, requires that infanticide and filicide be accepted."

Sigh. I think I defeated this argument in the above remarks so I will just let this one slide.

 "The only way to prevent this slide is to adopt and argue that personhood is non-degreed and that it fully present at conception."

Look at countries where abortion is legal. Are they sliding into anarchy? NO they are not. Quite the opposite. 
  
"Otherwise as we have seen in the world’s history, unimaginable evil results."

And we have seen in world history that banning abortion does incredible harm to the lives and welfare of women and their ability to participate fully in society.

YOU FAIL.