Posts by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #AJ5C9kaNsN6pLaURsG by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
       2022-05-03T18:02:18Z
       
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       @realcaseyrollins Legally, murder is "The unlawful killing of another human being without justification or excuse." So no, it's not murder. The essential question is whether the equal protection rights of a woman to control her own body and not be made a slave by her pregnancy are overridden by the equal protection of the fetus. The fetus, being unborn, doesn't enjoy equal protection under the 14th amendment. The rights of the mother supersede.
       
 (DIR) Post #AJ5RAqAW6TNwGQMvD6 by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
       2022-05-03T20:50:43Z
       
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       @realcaseyrollins Go talk to some women who have had abortions. The way the world works in your mind is not always the way the actual world works. Also, look up the legal definition of murder. It's a thing. The question is, does the state have the right to arbitrate between the rights of a woman and her unborn? Not all pregnancies are at all intentional and some are forced. Enslaving women is not the answer. Abortions should be safe, legal, and Rare.
       
 (DIR) Post #AJ5VTIi37y6RoL6y1o by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
       2022-05-03T21:38:51Z
       
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       @realcaseyrollins So it does come down to the legal definition of a person in the constitution. I refer you to the 14th amendment which established equal protection under the law. Please note the first sentence. A fetus is neither naturalized nor born. Our laws were not made to intercede between a mother and her unborn. We may believe in the personhood of the unborn, but it is not law, nor should it be.
       
 (DIR) Post #AJ5XOwg5IaB2ENF8qG by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
       2022-05-03T22:00:09Z
       
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       @realcaseyrollins If the goal is to have less abortions, an amendment and a law will not do it. Education and social system work better. Abortions used to be illegal and women had them anyway, only some of them died in the process. Some of these women were victims of rape, or already had children who lost a mother when sepsis took her in an alley. So, I don't share your view of an amendment to say citizenship begins at conception. All it does is take away equal protection away from women.
       
 (DIR) Post #AJqaSlU3pA8ldgxZ7Q by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
       2022-05-26T14:45:40Z
       
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       @stux Universal background checks, licensing and insurance, close the gunshow loophole, ban assault style weapons again. It will not stop mass shootings, but, as the example shows in other countries, it will slow it way down.
       
 (DIR) Post #AJqasclAslIw6yIMqW by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
       2022-05-26T14:48:28Z
       
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       @stux Gun buyback programs work too. They turn them into manhole covers. (peoplehole covers? (hmm, maybe something else))
       
 (DIR) Post #AJqeVtnZlZAk71q0C8 by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
       2022-05-26T15:30:41Z
       
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       @stux the Guardian in the UK? These are well known and highly popular bills in the US congress. The NRA controlled Republican block keeps them from passing. This is not news.
       
 (DIR) Post #APrPMrpMrxhkOSoWLw by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
       2022-11-22T11:28:02Z
       
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       @stux you mean my cugino?
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ85xSPVdZ1ssmCvgG by jiminfantino@mastodon.social
       2022-11-30T12:41:43Z
       
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       @stux he’s a hype man.