Anti-Suffering
The following is an opinion article I wrote on Medium regarding the Supreme Court's decision on Roe v. Wade: I want to start by saying I grew up as a very religious and conservative child. To the point where I thought gay marriage was the worst of sins and I prayed literally every night on my bed. Those days are far behind me. But one thing has remained constant — I want people, the people who exist here and now — to be safe, happy, and healthy. After years of getting frustrated with the Republican party for its self-aware and gleeful tyranny (and it’s been more than a few decades), I’m at a point where I genuinely think they’re just doing all these things to get a rise out of liberals. So, it’s not that I don’t care about Roe v. Wade being overturned. Because I do. But I also recognize that calling the other side “assholes” isn’t going to help. Especially because there are constituents among them who genuinely feel that by forcing women to carry a baby to term, they’re saving an i...