Did liberals forget that he was already president, once? That the things they said he’d do in first term, he never did?

If you are SO worried about the Courts being packed by one President, this 38% share for Obama should OUTRAGE you:

Who confirmed those justices? Take your time.

Also, you don’t believe for once single second that women should have autonomy over their own bodies. Not for a single second, so stop pretending that you care about women’s issues when you clearly don’t. You want to control every aspect of a person’s own autonomy from vaccines to health equity. In reality, you don’t care at all about women’s reproductive issues and are clearly just saying this to try and mock conservatives. Again, you do t believe for ONE SINGLE SECOND that women should have autonomy over their own bodies and I can easily prove it if you do t acquiesce.

You're projecting quite a bit onto me without ever having met me.

Ok. Thank god you don’t feel that women have complete autonomy over their bodies. I stand corrected.

Nobody has complete autonomy over their bodies, but I believe that women deserve the full range of choices in terms of caring for their bodies, including whether to carry a pregnancy to term.

Question: if you wake up tomorrow pregnant (ignore the how/why/et cetera for the moment) how would it change your life? Would you feel ready to deal with it? Would you feel scared? Excited?

To answer your question: while I’m probably the wrong person to ask because I already have kids in college. But if I woke up tomorrow pregnant, it wouldn’t change my life at all, except for the better because I believe it would be a gift from God. My personal belief. I most certainly would be scared raising a child now, too, because it is hard and expensive, and the world is so fast paced.

My question for you.

Do you really believe women deserve the full range of choices? That would mean you think it’s okay for a 7 month pregnant woman to be using heroin, alcohol, and/or smoking while she is pregnant. That she should be allowed to use fentanyl or meth every day of her pregnancy if she wants too, because it’s her body.

Second question:

Should a child be allowed to sue his mother if she didn’t properly care for the child as a fetus?

There are women who are 7 months pregnant and using heroin and alcohol. Just like there are parents with small children who have guns in the house, or smoke (both of which add significant risk to their children's lives.) If you're all about saving the children, then I guess you want the state to go into those parents' homes and take away their guns? Do they really "deserve the full range of choices"? I believe that they do, within the bounds of the law.

Doing drugs while pregnant is clearly the wrong choice, but I'm not locking women into purdah to keep them from making wrong choices.I think it's right to let adults be adults, rather than trying to step in between them and their doctors as they make their own medical choices.

And, here is an important issue to keep in mind: the debate about abortion is not about the abortion of 7-month pregnancies, where a normally-developing fetus would be viable outside the womb. 91% of abortions happen at or before the 12 week of pregnancy (the time when fertilization happened 10 weeks before, since pregnancies are counted from the last period rather than the fertilization date). At that point, the potential child is a blob of cells, not viable, and likely to abort naturally from a variety of causes some 20-30% of the time. There is a difference. If you ask the women you know who've been pregnant, most of them have had a spontaneous abortion in that first 12-week window. It's sad, but it's different than losing a child.

In your second sentence, you called a fetus a child. You just ended the debate. Thank you.

"potential child," I said. It's not really a debate, since you won't change your mind, and I would never cede the concept of millions of women's rights to your biases. May you be a woman in your next life, and experience the human decency of having the full measure of bodily autonomy.

Great. I look forward to being a woman in my next life. Do me a favor and tell me:

What is a woman?

How are you going to lie when I literally have your words right above your last comment - here is the screenshot. You said “ Both of which add significant risk to their children’s lives.” You didn’t say “potential child”. Again, how can you lie when your words are right there for everyone to see?

Not lying: that referred to children who have been born. Before birth, it's always potential: afterwards, we owe children a good deal more protection. Why is it that the right is so deeply concerned to see children in barely fertilized zygotes but so uninterested in their welfare afterward? (And controlling what their teachers can say and what books their libraries can have isn't about the children's welfare, it's about control.)