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[-] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago

doesn't mean the left needs to take them seriously

I don't take them seriously. My concern is those on the far-right who will take them seriously and bring harm to their unborn child. A lot of my concern about the far-right's antiscience isn't because I believe it will hurt me. It is because I believe it will hurt them.

If parents want to have a child, I wish them to have a healthy and wonderful child who will go on to have an amazing life, likely better than the one I had. I want their child to live a life I could never have had. But ignoring sound science about how to go about having a child that is healthy, is needlessly putting that child's life at risk.

I'm not really concerned about me. Oddly, I am more concerned about them. I value their freedom and ultimately they have the final say, but there's just no need to put others at risk or in harm because of those freedoms.

I just want it to be extremely clear here. Their antiscience doesn't really phase me and it's effect are not where my concern is born. It's what that antiscience will do to their children that concerns me. It's a free nation, they are allowed to go down that road, but I can still be concerned.

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