Ok, this is pretty funny.......Indiana women calling the Govenor regarding their periods......

[21st Century Poet]

80. Lack of nuance.

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I have absolute trust in all women to know the necessities of their own lives but having a political position does not mean being totally incapable of nuance, argument and hypothesis. For example, I am in favour of the legalisation of all drugs because the war against drugs has failed. Does that make me incapable of agreeing with the statement 'Heroin should not be sold in school canteens.'? No.

Similarly, I can, and I do, say that abortion should be legally and easily available to all women. I also say that nobody should interfere with a woman's right to choose whether to have a baby or not. That said, my clear position will not stop from agreeing with the statement 'Abortion based solely on gender or race (no medical or other reasons) because of the assumption that some genders or races are less worthy is repugnant'.

You might disagree with that statement, of course, and that's fine, but that's up to you. As far as I'm concerned, it's bad in China and it's bad everywhere. The statement is not country specific. Should it be made illegal and is it anybody's business? No, but not everything that is legal and nobody's business is morally right.

Just because you hold a belief, it does not mean that you become incapable of thinking about it from different angles. It's no more of a specious argument than saying 'Heroin should not be sold in school canteens.' An idea so clear and straightforward cannot be specious. And, yes, it's just a feeling but so is every other political and moral belief that we hold. That applies to you too.