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A government that is powerful enough to force you to continue a pregnancy (Original Post) TomDaisy Dec 2021 OP
Or forcibly harvest your organs. RockRaven Dec 2021 #1
exactly. Supreme Leader needs a kidney. You are a match. TomDaisy Dec 2021 #4
After death that wouldn't be so bad. PTWB Dec 2021 #5
If the Supreme Court wants to legalize postmortem-forced-gestation, they can go fucking ahead. RockRaven Dec 2021 #6
And then you run into this... jmowreader Dec 2021 #13
That's right! Walleye Dec 2021 #2
Agree! Tumbulu Dec 2021 #3
Tell the shortsighted Republicans C_U_L8R Dec 2021 #7
Yup Bayard Dec 2021 #8
A government that is powerful enough to force you to... keithbvadu2 Dec 2021 #9
Eugenics - Many women were involuntarily sterilized by state gov't policies. keithbvadu2 Dec 2021 #10
Many men were too ... just saying ... Hugh_Lebowski Dec 2021 #11
when the government decides who is fit to have children and who is not TomDaisy Dec 2021 #12
 

PTWB

(4,131 posts)
5. After death that wouldn't be so bad.
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 12:11 AM
Dec 2021

I think organ donation should be mandatory. We can start with making all state level organ donors opt out instead of opt in.

RockRaven

(14,988 posts)
6. If the Supreme Court wants to legalize postmortem-forced-gestation, they can go fucking ahead.
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 12:16 AM
Dec 2021

I don't care about that. Not least of why because it is absurd, but also because it harms no living person.

C_U_L8R

(45,015 posts)
7. Tell the shortsighted Republicans
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 12:47 AM
Dec 2021

that their efforts pave the way to forced vaccine inoculations. That might freak them out.

keithbvadu2

(36,871 posts)
9. A government that is powerful enough to force you to...
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 01:24 AM
Dec 2021

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist=

keithbvadu2

(36,871 posts)
10. Eugenics - Many women were involuntarily sterilized by state gov't policies.
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 01:32 AM
Dec 2021

Eugenics - Many women were involuntarily sterilized by state gov't policies.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
11. Many men were too ... just saying ...
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 02:00 AM
Dec 2021

And in 1927, SCOTUS approved the state's right to do this in Buck v. Bell.

The Nazi's actually borrowed the idea from the USA.

Fun Facts.

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