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Follow Up: Argentinian Abortion Rights Activists Behave Badly After Losing Vote
Follow up to my previous post: Blue defeats Green: Pro-life victory in Argentina
After the announcement that the Senate voted down the bill to legalize abortion, the pro-life side (blue) was overjoyed and the advocates of legalization (green) were understandably very disappointed. Here’s what that looked like:
BLUE
GREEN
Unfortunately, the response to the vote didn’t end there.
Violence broke out outside the country’s congress
Protesters have lit fires and thrown bottles at police after Argentina’s senate rejected a bill to legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. Officers fired tear gas as some protesters reacted angrily to the result, setting up flaming barricades and throwing bottles at police in riot gear.
Here’s what that looked like:
When you have already have abandoned the idea that life is valuable and worth pursuing, then anything else is permissible following the desire for its abolition.
Reminds me of a certain prediction from the 2016 election.
They’ve learned this behavior by watching how our leftists react when things don’t go their way . . .
Right, because no one in the world had ever violently protested an election or legislative decision until American leftists did so.
Let’s not give credit where credit is most certainly not due.
I think it is a natural reaction if you can’t legalize violence against children to then lash out in violence against the authorities that stopped you from killing children.
Violence, power and world view is all wrapped up in the abortion issue emotions will run high and if you are for killing the children you have abandoned much of the morality that restrains extreme behavior.
Hanging out with the Blues would have been grand that night, I am sure.
“Waaaah, you won’t let me kill my baby!!!! I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!!!!”
It’s with a terrible fascination I note that secular left-wing feminism has founded their movement on the killing of the unborn. They defend that “right” with vehemence, seeing that if it’s gone so is their entire movement in their view.
Given the political violence and bloodshed that mark Argentina’s past, I’m a little relieved that this is all that’s happened.
Blue talking to a Green: “Geez. Who died? Oh, wait… No One!”
If they had any self-awareness at all, they’d look at these pictures and notice how degrading this is to women.
And the Hagia Sophia was left unburnt! (Sorry, this joke was the first thing the headline prompted.)
This is nothing compared to what will happen the day Roe vs Wade gets overturned.
Wait, you mean people who advocate for the killing of babies in the womb reacted violently when told they couldn’t do that?
Similar to the “Islam is the religion of peace and if you don’t believe me I will kill you!”.
Is that from Monty Python?
The Nika Riots in Constantinople during the reign of Justinian. A sports riot between fans of the Blue and Green chariot teams lasted seven days and burnt half the city, including the church that was rebuilt into the Hagia Sophia.
Oh, okay. I had heard of the Blue & Green chariot factions. The first time I saw a mention of them was in this LessWrong post on partisanship & tribalism back in ’08. I hadn’t heard of the Nika Riots, though. I didn’t even know the phenomenon existed in the Byzantine Empire. I thought it was just a Roman thing (like the scene in Ben Hur).
PS: Just read this – Blue versus Green: Rocking the Byzantine Empire – very interesting.
You’re probably right, although it oughtn’t to be so. After all, RvW just prevents prohibitions. Regardless of what individual states do, there’d not be a federal prohibition, which is what Columbia is fighting over.
I think the majority of Americans don’t realize this. That’s why I’m always skeptical of polls showing a 35-40 pt advantage for keeping Roe. The same portion of Americans can’t tell you what Roe is about. Only 60% say it was about abortion. 15-20% say capital punishment, segregation, the environment, etc. and the rest ‘I don’t know.’
Pew asks this:
I’m willing to bet serious money that at least half those who say, ‘not,’ think that overturning Roe would result in abortion being illegal.
I’d like to see what the results would be if a poll said, ‘would you favor letting your elected representatives in the legislature decide how to regulate abortion in your state, or do you want unelected judges to dictate the rules for the entire country?’
That’s the real question after all: whether we return the issue to the democratic process. We might well still find a majority opposed to overturning Roe, but it definitely wouldn’t be by a 2 to 1 margin!
Napoleon used “a whiff of grape” to control this sort of thing.
You mean he got them drunk first?
Lot of green in those photos so I’d credit Philadelphia Eagles fans.
I believe the correct usage is “I Kill You”
The kind that comes out of a cannon. Commonly known as grapeshot.
You men and your weapons! ;-)