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That is accurate. They're almost exclusively done before a fetus is viable. The vast majority of those occurring beyond four months occur due to the health risks of the mother. For example we had a family friend who terminated a pregnancy at 5 months because she found out she had liver cancer and would need chemotherapy. she had to choose between chemo and the baby. She had three living children, so she chose the chemo to try and avoid leaving them without a mother.

I think the majority of abortions are young women who make mistakes and realize that they're not ready to be parents. Personally, I don't like the idea of abortions. It's not something that sets well with me. But there are plenty of things that don't set well with me that aren't illegal. You ask when I'm okay with abortions: my personal opinion is that once an embryo is viable, and developed enough to possibly survive outside of the mother, that mother should no longer have an option to terminate the pregnancy. At 8 weeks an embryo is the size of a lima bean. I see that a lot differently than when a fetus is 5 months old and has a (very small) chance of survival outside of the womb. And how far do we take it? Most Catholics think birth control is a sin. Now, you asked me a question, and I answered, and I asked you a question and you deflected it. Your question was a very specific question of an unlikely scenario, but I answered. My question was specific and an unlikely scenario, and you avoided it: It's a yes or no answer: If your wife was raped would you want her to be forced to carry the child to term without the option of terminating the pregnancy?

I really think every city that wants to defund the police should get a week without them, and see how it goes. It's ridiculous. I'm all for weeding out bad police, and punishing police who break the law (not punishing police who make a reasonable decision in the moment that turns out to be a mistake), but the idea that cities are better off with out police is absurd. You can already see the effects on crime numbers in cities where police support is low. Officers are not proactive anymore. Why would you go out and beat the bushes and try to stop crime before it happens when you know that any time you do your job you could be tried and convicted in the media? Why would you do that when you might be attacked for being there? It's better to just wait for calls to come in and go after the fact and avoid confrontations.

It's tough because, while rioters are breaking many laws, the police don't have the support of the govt or the media to stop it.

Your very specific example is the thing that is least likely to happen. I literally know nobody who was about to have a baby with their wife and then found out that their wife secretly had an abortion. That said, I'm quite sure that if my wife was five months pregnant with our first child, and she came home and told me she'd had an abortion that I would be upset. That doesn't mean I think abortion should be illegal, although at 5 months I DO think it should be illegal. My wife and I can't have children, so I assure you I have a very real idea of how precious the process is. We adopted two little girls. When they're adults (or God forbid when they're teenagers), I hope that if they somehow end up pregnant and do not want to take the child to term, ESPECIALLY if they are raped or if having the baby could cause them some sort of health issues, that they have the option to terminate that pregnancy. Since I answered your question, let me ask you this... if your wife gets raped and becomes pregnant, do you want her to have the choice as to whether or not she has the baby? What about if having the baby could possibly kill her? Do you want her to have the option of terminating the pregnancy then?

Those times have at least been loosely related to the original topic. Start a new thread and I'll answer your question. I don't have any reservations talking about it.

Appreciated, but not necessary.

Start another thread, I'll have an honest discussion with you about it. We're really way off topic here.

Gonna have to agree to disagree on that one. Anyway, we're way off topic. I'm happy to discuss this in a different thread sometime. We haven't had a good abortion debate on here for quite awhile.

I hold both in the same regard.

Not sure where God addressed abortion in the bible. I have zero issue taking the life of a criminal who deserves it. I also have zero issue with someone deciding to terminate an embryo in their own body. To each his own.

My opinion on it is this... you had a bunch of nutjobs storm the capitol. One of them got killed in a highly publicized shooting. Since the officer wasn't charged with a crime, I don't at all blame them for doing their best to protect his identity. I'd think there's a very real chance of some other nutjob trying to come after him (the kind of person that would storm the capitol, maybe?). He was cleared by a grand jury. Knowing his identity doesn't do anything for anyone. If he'd been charged with a crime it would be out there.

I'm firmly pro-choice and pro-death penalty.

I'm sure you consider her a patriot.

I live in Fannett, and just got hired to teach at HFE next year. I hope they have this kind of success, but this seems overly optimistic.

It's just been a weird dynamic on this one for me... many of the same people that are pissed about this officer making a split-second decision to shoot an insurrectionist breaching the house chambers don't have any of the same animosity towards an officer who spent nearly a quarter of an hour kneeling on a handcuffed subject's neck.

I’m not saying there isn’t. But at the same time, if little Johnny is really good at basketball, and you’re looking to move out of Dallas/Garland/Richardson/etc to somewhere outside of the city, where are you going to look first?

But what do you do with them? I don’t want Texas to end up like California with people crapping on the sidewalk, but I don’t really care if the homeless group together in out of the way places that don’t affect public safety.

The blood clots should've been a non-issue to be honest. Women on birth control, smokers, and... people with covid all have a much high risk of those clots. But yeah, our government can't be trusted much, on either side of the aisle.

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I just thought your "Thank you doctors for speaking out" quote was funny. Your doc here has no credibility. She's a political shill. She's also an anti-vaxx nutter who's been throwing out false and misleading information. I did not say children should get the vaccine, just pointing out that her argument doesn't have a whole lot of validity. She's not basing any opinion on "the science", she's just trying to make herself a new career as a political activist (since she got fired based on some of her false info and getting arrested in the capital insurrection). If I was telling people that it's okay for kids to get the vaccine because it's perfectly safe, I would be dishonest because I do not know that for sure. She's doing the same thing, just in the other direction. Intentionally misleading people with fake, doctored, or outdated info. I know that doesn't bother you because she's saying what you want to hear.

The head of frontline doctors got arrested in the capital insurrection. I'd say that adequately calls into question both her sensibility as well as her motivation.

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Their girl's soccer team lost 1-0 in the regional finals to the eventual state winner. Their baseball team is currently 3 rounds deep in the playoffs, and their softball is currently alive in the 4th round. The boys soccer team had a disappointing year and lost in the 3rd round in a shootout to the eventual state runners up. They're literally good at every sport.

If you're a white high schooler and a good athlete, and your parents have good jobs in or around the metroplex, they buy a place in Argyle. It's as simple as that. It's like the white flight that we see around here, but somehow most of the elite athletes are going to one place, and the player pool is enormous. They've managed to keep the enrollment down low enough to play at a smaller classification so that they can continue to compete for titles in virtual every sport (like Yates basketball) while having a large pool of players. I don't think Argyle has to recruit. The kids all just go there. It's a weird dynamic.