tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post6245026224947042353..comments2023-12-27T23:42:45.680-05:00Comments on The Abortioneers: Sigh of the week: "With Liberty and Justice for Most" (In which I try to play well with others)placenta sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729355361057625131noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post-45531328191878720882010-07-18T10:29:21.629-04:002010-07-18T10:29:21.629-04:00Valkyrie, that makes me glad to hear! I didn't...Valkyrie, that makes me glad to hear! I didn't mean to deny your existence :) Clearly this suggests a few things: <br /><br />1) The places I have hung out are not frequented by the promising kind of libertarians [not sure if this says something about me or about my cities of residence]<br /><br />and/or<br /><br />2) I have been burned a couple times in a row and am now unfairly cautious around all libertarians, and ought to resist that hesitation if I want to be proven wrong in future. <br /><br />I want to believe, I do!placenta sandwichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729355361057625131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post-84398865806506271582010-07-16T08:11:35.825-04:002010-07-16T08:11:35.825-04:00i am... mostly libertarian, theoretically, but for...i am... mostly libertarian, theoretically, but for reasonably obvious reasons(like the fact that no libertarian's getting voted in, ever, plus the system won't really work if they do), i vote democrat. and i'm staunchly pro-choice!<br />(see, we do exist!)Satanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924927495555847410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post-47971131199815657452010-07-10T11:58:16.836-04:002010-07-10T11:58:16.836-04:00"Re: your Lib friend, I'd say it's be..."Re: your Lib friend, I'd say it's better to have the cat out of the bag before it explodes one day."<br /><br />anti-anti, I definitely don't want any exploding cats around (or is it an exploding bag?), but am still trepidatious and still haven't said anything! We'll see though...placenta sandwichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729355361057625131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post-19890180441310366592010-07-08T00:44:38.876-04:002010-07-08T00:44:38.876-04:00Hey all, not sure what on earth is happening with ...Hey all, not sure what on earth is happening with the comments right now, but rest assured I'm not capriciously deleting them or anything. NYProchoiceMD, that post was FANTASTIC and said about 95% of what I was planning to say in my future-post, and another good deal that I hadn't even thought to write. Not sure I need to write another post on EC at all. Thank you for doing the work of bringing a little critical reading to the scene. Will plug everywhere.placenta sandwichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729355361057625131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post-64186837809445474592010-07-07T23:15:21.814-04:002010-07-07T23:15:21.814-04:00My experiences with libertarians have been mostly ...My experiences with libertarians have been mostly negative as well, not just regarding pro choice issues. It seems to me they love to complain above all things and seem to think greed is a virtue. <br />Most I've seem to be ambivalent on abortion, some strongly oppose it, but I know one guy who is pretty fiercely pro choice (he makes a point to give the finger to anti choice clinic protestors when he drives by).Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818573358986858228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post-6423589705042850932010-07-06T22:59:13.951-04:002010-07-06T22:59:13.951-04:00So true. Kn@ppster, I would love to meet the libe...So true. Kn@ppster, I would love to meet the libertarians who are not against the individual freedom to make a personal decision between a woman and her doctor. <br /><br />As for Plan B and ellaOne, I wrote a more scientifically oriented post about it (and why ellaOne is not necessarily longer-acting based on the methodology of their study, and my concern that almost all the study authors are paid by the pharmaceutical company), if you're interested: http://academicobgyn.com/2010/02/09/lancet-ulipristal-vs-levonorgestrel-for-emergency-contraception/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post-71111249021010371302010-07-05T23:46:22.284-04:002010-07-05T23:46:22.284-04:00I agree. I feel like young-ish folks these days th...I agree. I feel like young-ish folks these days think it's cool or revolutionary to be Libertarians. I'm starting to see it everywhere, and I'm not sure where it came from.<br /><br />Re: your Lib friend, I'd say it's better to have the cat out of the bag before it explodes one day.anti-antihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09963034892813934944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post-36871085010215400512010-07-05T20:17:05.905-04:002010-07-05T20:17:05.905-04:00I've been a libertarian for a long time, and I...I've been a libertarian for a long time, and I know a lot of libertarians.<br /><br />I've never, ever, ever heard a libertarian say "I'm a libertarian ... except on abortion."<br /><br />There, is, however, considerable argument over what the libertarian position on abortion is.Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387757235421993128.post-51987100401557307732010-07-05T13:53:06.721-04:002010-07-05T13:53:06.721-04:00I posted about libertarians on Facebook the other ...I posted about libertarians on Facebook the other day, after noticing that pretty much all the ones I've met on Twitter are really Tea-Partiers who at least have enough sense to know how ridiculous the Tea Party is, so they're ashamed to associate themselves with it... but believe everything Tpers do.<br /><br />There are true libertarians out there (a good friend of mine, very pro-choice dude, is one of them), but I find most people A) don't know what "Libertarian" really means and what the movement really works for, or B) use it as a cop-out: "I don't vote because I don't like Republicans or Democrats, I'm a 'libertarian', so I don't have a candidate to vote on so I just absolve myself of all political responsibility."<br /><br />Your neighbor may be one of those few libertarians-who-actually-know-what-they're-talking-about, but I don't blame you for not wanting to press the issue. Odds are not in your favor.Criss L. Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04664903417376487387noreply@blogger.com