{"id":45173,"date":"2014-06-19T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45173"},"modified":"2014-07-15T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:30:24","slug":"asymmetric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45173","title":{"rendered":"Asymmetric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baby killers used to tell pro-lifers \u201cIf you don\u2019t want an abortion, don\u2019t have one.\u201d  It was considered a crushing rejoinder even though it put personal liberty over loss of innocent life.  The implication was that a mother taking action to kill her child was so obviously moral that it was beyond reproach.<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me that line could be re-cycled by the Second Amendment crowd: \u201cIf you don\u2019t want to carry a firearm, then don\u2019t.\u201d  I wonder if Liberals would consider my decision to take action to Prevent someone from killing my child, to be equally valid?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the left approached this issue (or most others) from a logical position&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, it&#8217;s a moot question, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Baby killers used to tell pro-lifers \u201cIf you don\u2019t want an abortion, don\u2019t have one.\u201d It was considered a crushing rejoinder even though it put personal liberty over loss of innocent life. The implication was that a mother taking action to kill her child was so obviously moral that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45744,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45173\/revisions\/45744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}