I stumbled upon this post tonight and when I was done here, I read another…and then another. We share many of the same views. How refreshing! I hope you’ll keep writing. I enjoyed reading all three posts.
Hey, thank you so much. And thank you for liking and commenting. Nice to meet you, and I hope you come back again soon. Have some good stuff I’m working on. Thanks again 🙏
Thank you, Jeff. I love your writing. I feel like I'm looking at a piece of art and listening to you untie the entangled arguments and issues of our day, both at the same time. I'm not sure which part I love more, your artistry or your logic. But keep at it. Thank you, again.
Really awesome, well-expressed thoughts, Jeff. I (embarrassingly enough) have not read Mary Harrington, but will definitely familiarize myself with her works.
Strange and sad to me that a woman can take such strong countercultural stances on many things, but can’t do what (I believe) we are biologically designed to do - nurture and protect the unborn. (As evidenced by the statistics of mental health issues suffered by women post-abortion).
Within the last year I heard a townhall meeting (an old one I’m sure as I am infamously not “hip” and “with it”) with Charlie Kirk, and I really liked his simple assertion and it is one that I’ve now used to better explain my abolitionist stance on abortion - he said something along the lines of how at conception a new set of DNA is formed. So while it may be within my choice to do whatever I want with my own personal DNA, I do not get to decide the validity of someone else’s DNA - regardless of where that someone else resides.
Keep reading, keep writing, keep sharing your thoughts.
Hey Diana! Yes, I think the more honest/consistent pro choice people have accepted the “fertilization view” that there is a new unique human life with their own DNA there at fertilization. What they have done now is shifted the conversation from “when does life begin” to “when does that human life become a person”. These pro choice folks will confidently argue that even tho it is a unique human life, they don’t have the right to occupy the woman’s body etc etc.
I think we as pro life people should change the frame from this expressive individualist frame where the mother and baby are two strangers competing for resources, to a frame of duty and family and interdependence where we remember that we are talking about a baby and his mother, and that humans are born dependent into these unchosen networks of family and dependency. If we have a chance to do it, we should kindly challenge the premises of expressive individualism from jump street in these debates.
Again- thanks for reading and your kind words. Hope to see you and catch up soon.
Thank you brother! Always encouraged by your words. Thanks for reading. And thanks for sharing YOUR art always. Have been listening to your wonderful music of the Psalms you sent out recently. Love you brother.
Excellent, as always. Your logical reasoning brings such clarity. Thank you.
Keep it up.
I stumbled upon this post tonight and when I was done here, I read another…and then another. We share many of the same views. How refreshing! I hope you’ll keep writing. I enjoyed reading all three posts.
Hey, thank you so much. And thank you for liking and commenting. Nice to meet you, and I hope you come back again soon. Have some good stuff I’m working on. Thanks again 🙏
Thank you, Jeff. I love your writing. I feel like I'm looking at a piece of art and listening to you untie the entangled arguments and issues of our day, both at the same time. I'm not sure which part I love more, your artistry or your logic. But keep at it. Thank you, again.
Joel Howard
Really awesome, well-expressed thoughts, Jeff. I (embarrassingly enough) have not read Mary Harrington, but will definitely familiarize myself with her works.
Strange and sad to me that a woman can take such strong countercultural stances on many things, but can’t do what (I believe) we are biologically designed to do - nurture and protect the unborn. (As evidenced by the statistics of mental health issues suffered by women post-abortion).
Within the last year I heard a townhall meeting (an old one I’m sure as I am infamously not “hip” and “with it”) with Charlie Kirk, and I really liked his simple assertion and it is one that I’ve now used to better explain my abolitionist stance on abortion - he said something along the lines of how at conception a new set of DNA is formed. So while it may be within my choice to do whatever I want with my own personal DNA, I do not get to decide the validity of someone else’s DNA - regardless of where that someone else resides.
Keep reading, keep writing, keep sharing your thoughts.
Hey Diana! Yes, I think the more honest/consistent pro choice people have accepted the “fertilization view” that there is a new unique human life with their own DNA there at fertilization. What they have done now is shifted the conversation from “when does life begin” to “when does that human life become a person”. These pro choice folks will confidently argue that even tho it is a unique human life, they don’t have the right to occupy the woman’s body etc etc.
I think we as pro life people should change the frame from this expressive individualist frame where the mother and baby are two strangers competing for resources, to a frame of duty and family and interdependence where we remember that we are talking about a baby and his mother, and that humans are born dependent into these unchosen networks of family and dependency. If we have a chance to do it, we should kindly challenge the premises of expressive individualism from jump street in these debates.
Again- thanks for reading and your kind words. Hope to see you and catch up soon.
Thank you brother! Always encouraged by your words. Thanks for reading. And thanks for sharing YOUR art always. Have been listening to your wonderful music of the Psalms you sent out recently. Love you brother.