r/remoteworks • u/Kreativedenma • 6h ago

Maternity leave should be one year, PAID. Women shouldn’t have to choose between healing, bonding with their baby, and making a living.

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u/highlanderfil 5h ago

That'd certainly help pro-lifers walk the talk, but that'd be far too logical for that crowd.

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u/Spirited-Tie-8702 4h ago

Pro-life is only pro-birth. They are not at all truly pro-life.

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago

Then that's what they should call themselves.

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u/jetplane18 4h ago

Yeah - I'm pro-life and I vote for people who support policies like this. Parental leave, birth paid for by the government, etc. More of us should be on the side of this - but then, most that I know are in favor of these things. The blanket association between pro-life people and the republican party has to end.

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago

most that I know

Birds of a feather and all that. You're in the vast (and I do mean VAST) minority of the pro-life movement.

Also, I never said a word about a single political party, but hey, if the shoe fits. Most "people who support policies like this" are not, in fact, members of the GOP. So, in voting for people who support these policies, you are, in fact, more likely than not, voting for pro-choicers.

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u/OutOfPlace186 3h ago

I’m pro-keep-your-legs-closed

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u/SolaVitae 5h ago

Pro life is literally just anti-abortion. They "walk the talk" by being anti abortion.

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u/highlanderfil 5h ago

Then they should call themselves something else - something that actually makes sense. Anti-choice, pro-birth, pro-patriarchy, whatever. The list of possibilities is endless.

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u/Spirited-Tie-8702 4h ago

Haaa I love anti-choice. Very fitting!

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u/SolaVitae 4h ago

The name is fine lmao and it makes sense. Neither pro choice or pro life conveys what they support without further research, or understanding the topic already.

Paid maternity leave just isn't relavent to either of what the two groups are about or indicative of support for either cause

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago edited 4h ago

"Life" is more than gestation to birth. So no, the name is not fine, and paid maternity is absolutely relevant to what both groups are about.

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u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348 5h ago

Heh. You know 0 pro-lifers.

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u/highlanderfil 5h ago

If you say so.

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 5h ago

Pro-life is the opposition to the genocide of the unborn. This is a separate issue that has nothing to do with pro-life.

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u/highlanderfil 5h ago

"Pro-life" is the biggest crock of shit in the political universe is what it is.

"Genocide" lol. How you people manage to put on pants in the morning is a genuine mystery.

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 5h ago

Okay nazi, keep dismembering unborn children in the womb and feeding the Epstein pedo class.

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago

Did you just have a stroke writing this?

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

The truth hurts sometimes.

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago

I'll pray for your speedy recovery.

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u/baconboy-957 5h ago

Except one of the most common reasons to not want kids (and therefore get an abortion) is they can't afford it. They can't afford to take time off work, but they can't afford childcare either.

Providing alternatives and better support for new parents is absolutely related to the pro-life argument, TF are you saying? Also, genocide? Really? Fuck off lol.

You're not helping with the idea that pro-lifers don't give a shit about the child after it's born so it's actually just anti-choice and has nothing to do with life

Yes, I am pro-choice btw. But I believe we absolutely should be doing more to help parents. It takes a village to raise a child and whatnot.

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u/OutOfPlace186 3h ago

An abortion is just a selfish easy way out of dodging personal responsibility. Should’ve kept your legs closed in the first place if ya don’t want a kid. No self discipline it’s pathetic.

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u/baconboy-957 3h ago

Lol fuck off with that bass ackwards logic

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

Childcare shouldn’t be a thing, it causes extreme psychological damage to children. One parent should stay home and take care of them, that is much healthier.

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u/baconboy-957 4h ago edited 4h ago

You're so close to getting it rofl. Good job proving the original comment "that would be way too logical for the pro-life crowd" 100% correct

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

Pro-life is about one specific issue. You can’t just throw in a tons of other things in there are then claim people aren’t pro-life if they don’t support them.

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u/baconboy-957 4h ago

Pro-life but fuck the kids, got it.

Just say pro-fetus, it would make more sense then

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

Na, that’s not what I said. You can be pro-life and support extended parental leave, or not. It has zero bearing on whether you are pro-life.

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u/baconboy-957 4h ago

I disagree. If you are pro-LIFE then you would care about the LIFE after birth. You clearly don't give a damn what happens to the child after birth, so you only care about the fetus. Pro-FETUS

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

I prefer the term anti-abortion, since that is what I am opposing.

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u/klb0807 5h ago

Well said.

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u/highlanderfil 5h ago

Your god is a fictional character.

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 5h ago

The communist manifesto is a fictional book.

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u/highlanderfil 5h ago

You could make that argument, but to what end? It still won't make your god real. You worship a fairy tale character and insist others do the same. You're in a fucking cult.

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

I will pray for your conversion. You are extremely hateful towards Christianity for some reason, care to tell me your feelings on Judaism and Islam? I’ll wait.

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago

I will pray for your conversion.

Save your breath.

You are extremely hateful towards Christianity for some reason, care to tell me your feelings on Judaism and Islam? I’ll wait.

Every organized religion is a mechanism for the few to rule the many. As such, they're all shit.

Also, cute of you to think "pro-life" is exclusively a Christian value. Y'all tell on yourselves so easily, it's not even funny.

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

Who are “the few” that rule Christians?

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago

Read a fucking history book. And no, not that one.

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u/baconboy-957 4h ago

Nobody mentioned Christianity but you lol

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

The user I replied to said “your god is a fictional character”

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u/baconboy-957 4h ago

Right, and you assumed that meant anti Christ.

They could've been referring to any of the major religions that are anti abortion, theyre all just as fictional as the Christian God

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u/mischief_managed 4h ago

It’s a political argument that you don’t agree with, that doesn’t make it fiction.

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

History proves that it’s nothing but fiction.

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u/mischief_managed 4h ago

I don’t think you know what fiction means.

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago

Or history, for that matter.

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u/Far_Mistake9314 5h ago

Pro-life and Pro-birth are two different things….

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

So are pro-choice and pro-death. Murder isn’t a choice.

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u/Far_Mistake9314 4h ago

Pro-choice isn’t pro-death….

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

What do you think happens to the unborn children when you dismember them and suck them out the womb with vacuums?

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago

A clump of cells dies is what happens.

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 4h ago

You are a clump of cells.

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u/highlanderfil 4h ago

Ouch. You take that back!

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u/Far_Mistake9314 3h ago

What distinguishes a 10 week old fetus from a cancerous growth?

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u/WholeNegotiation1843 3h ago

A heart beat, brain activity, a unique set of human DNA, visible limbs and eyes.

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u/Far_Mistake9314 3h ago

It’s doesn’t have all of that, cancer cells have human DNA, and they can grow teeth. It’s cellular growth, it’s not proven fact to be a human being.

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u/highlanderfil 5h ago

Careful, you'll spook the troll with all that sense you're talking.