My favorite experience on the internet was the time I saw a lesbian on a doctor who forum make a thread about her desire to see “a lesbian dalek.” There was this one dude who got SO ANGRY about it that she and a bunch of other users pulled up a bunch of references proving that Daleks have a concept of gender and use gendered language to identify one another, and how some Daleks (like the Cult of Skaro) are designed to understand and weaponize human emotion, and made this really compelling argument that a lesbian Dalek could exist without violating any of the show’s canon
And the dude just got like really upset and was finally like “HOW WOULD SHE KNOW WHICH OTHER DALEKS ARE WOMEN, THEY ALL WEAR IDENTICAL CASINGS” and this one poster who hadn’t said anything up to this point just said “you know other species besides daleks have women too” and he literally just responded with “AAAAAAAAARGH”
The best part though was that this dude clearly read every single thread on the board (and corrected everyone who said anything about anything), so this lady would occasionally mention her “lesbian Dalek OC” in passing and within a few hours he’d show up with an all-caps, multi-paragraph, misspelled, profanity-laden rant about how there can’t be a lesbian Dalek and how she should stop punishing him for “being a heterosexual”
Clara was once a lesbian dalek. She was a dalek in one life and had a relationship with a during the same life so lesbian dalek.
As I’ve investigated both sides of the abortion debate, I’ve become honestly curious to discover if there is any anti-abortion argument that isn’t based on a lie (or lies). I’m going through the most popular current US anti-abortion talking points and giving each a Politifact-esque truth rating. Let’s investigate!
In this New York Times piece covering the issue of fetal pain, the overwhelming consensus among scientists is that fetuses are not capable of feeling pain before 24 weeks. The few scientists who speculate that fetuses might feel pain before 24 weeks point out that they “did not think their work or current evidence provided scientific support for fetal-pain laws.”
The threefactchecks cited above also cover this ground, but here is the Guttmacher article showing that 9% of US abortion providers are located in majority-black neighborhoods. The toomanyaborted.com page claims that Guttmacher claims that “only 9% of abortion clinics are located in urban neighborhoods,” which means they are lying about Guttmacher lying in order to perpetuate their lie. It’s a lie within a lie.
Major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, disagree. The birth control pill’s primary method of controlling birth is suppressing ovulation, with a backup of preventing implantation in the uterus. Maybe you think every fertilized egg flushed out before implantation is an abortion; in that case, you should definitely be taking the birth control pill, as many, many more zygotes are lost in “natural” sex than sex on the pill.
You should be able to intuitively conclude that this is not true, but if you want a citation, this study shows that the risk of death is 14 times greater in childbirth than in medical abortion.
Truth-o-meter: False
13. Crisis pregnancy centers are legitimate clinics that give scientifically sound information about abortion, which is why employees wear lab coats and are trained in reading ultrasounds.
Crisis pregnancy centers are actually run by volunteers from local Christian churches. These volunteers are almost always not trained in any medical profession, including sonography, which might explain why one center told a woman her IUD was a baby. However, volunteers will frequently wear lab coats and give “intake” paperwork in an attempt to fool clients into thinking they are trained medical professionals. They are well-known forgiving out falsemedical information, including that abortion causes breast cancer, infertility, “post-abortion syndrome,” and child abuse, or that abortion is much more dangerous than childbirth, or that birth control pills are abortifacients, or that condoms don’t work, and the list goes on …
Truth-o-meter: Pants on Fire
14. The focal point of the abortion debate is whether or not a fetus is living.
The focal point of the abortion debate is whether or not pregnant people have the right to bodily autonomy, meaning the right to govern what happens to their own body. You’re welcome to your own personal opinion on when a human being’s life begins, but it’s irrelevant.
Truth-o-meter: False
15. Banning abortion stops abortion.
Multiple comprehensiveworldwide studies by the World Health Organization concluded that countries where abortion is illegal have no lower rates of abortion than countries where it is legal. They do have significantly higher rates of unsafe abortions, however.
