Here's a definition of fundamentalist: a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts. If you take out religious and put in abortion, you'd have YOU. So you are a fundie.
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You can't switch "religious", an adjective, with "abortion", a substantive.
So, taking out religious and putting in abortive...
An abortive movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of abortive texts.
Nah, sorry; it doesn't make any sense. There are no abortive texts so there is no possibility to have a strict belief in the literal interpretation of them. Also, what the pro-choice movement is all about, is that it ought to be the woman's choice what to do with her body.
Fundamentalism is the refusal to change with new evidence, I'd say.
Evidence says that embryos don't have any functioning nervous systems nor any kind of awareness at the time when almost all abortions happen (before week 12).
"Here's a definition of fundamentalist: a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts."
Or as the TV Tropes entry The Fundamentalist puts it: "Their beliefs are right, and anyone who does not believe as they do is stupid, crazy, evil or all three. The Fundamentalist is right, you are wrong, and being right is the only thing that matters."
A certain group forces it's female members of the Sea Org to have abortions, should they become pregnant.
Said group? $cientology.
You obviously don't know David Miss Cabbage as much as most people in the know do.
And as I know so much about the Church of $cientology, that they would regard me as an SP - and thus the last thing they'd do is have me as part of their 'Church' - how can I be a fundie?
Would you regard the Church of $cientology as a religious movement? The clue's kinda in their name. The slightest deviation from their doctrine - L. Ron Hubbard's 'Tech' - is considered a High Crime; their definition of Heresy.
And as they have tax exemption as a religion in the US, that leaves you no other options, argument-wise.
So if a religious movement - the Church of $cientology - which, as far as the IRS are concerned, is no different to yours , yet forces abortions, yet would never have me as a member as I'm an SP in their eyes, it's impossible for me to be a fundie. And it's impossible for your 'argument' to have any credibility whatsoever.
NEXT!
@ Anon-e-moose
It may appear strange that the Sea Org (the staff of the Church of Scientology) does force its female members to have abortions when L. Ron Hubbard's own writings are adamantly against abortion, and indeed suggest it is poisoning the entire world.
It makes more sense when you consider that a common staple of brainwashing is to get the subjects to accept the unacceptable.
All groups, more especially those dealing with social questions rather than factual ones, have people who hold certain views despite evidence to the contrary, sometimes to an unreasonable degree. Abortion is no different - I'm constantly surprised how many pro-lifers take the view that the unborn are not 'people' as such and so termination up to full term should be entirely legal. I would certainly describe such people as pro-life fundamentalists, if not pro-life extremists.
Confused?
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