John Shepard

@LilaGraceRose Pray to the God that did nothing to save the life of Charlie Kirk? For what?

Round 2! Headed to Stanford University to debate abortion. Please pray for me and everyone attending ❤️

@RepMarkHarrisNC Do you collectively condemn all Americans with some American kills another American in a similar manner? Or are you just a collectivist bigot?

This is Corey Cottrell. He was killed by an illegal alien who ran a red light and then ran him over, killing him. He was 39 years old—a father to two daughters. Corey is why I support ICE.

@LilaGraceRose You're simply insane to view embryos as children. You're evil for wanted to force your irrational / religious beliefs on others.

This is what happens when children are created in labs. A man reveals he purchased 40 frozen human embryos with his gay partner to use on a surrogate. The ones not chosen will either die or remain frozen indefinitely. Heartbreaking.  Pray for these children.

@AbbyJohnson Stop treating woman like they're your property. That's evil.

There shouldn’t be a single abortion in the United States of America (or the world). There shouldn’t be a single innocent child murdered in the womb.

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose The anti-life, anti-rights, so-called "pro-life" movement makes a mockery of the idea of rights as it works to destroy that idea and the facts that give rise to it. Talk about dehumanizing. That movement dehumanizes humanity as such.

@John_R_Shepard @LilaGraceRose Show me

Unique and distinct human babies. Perfectly whole and human. Unrepeated and made in the image of God.  9 states plus Washington, DC allows abortion up to birth, and would have allowed the slaughter of these precious children. No child should be aborted.

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose The argument by the anti-life, anti-rights, anti-abortion movement is that the ZEF is a person with rights and that the only difference between it and any other person is its location. That's why you appealed to it.

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose It's implicit in bringing up "location" as being relevant. It's not relevant in the sense that you're trying to make it. It is relevant in the sense that we're talking about someone's life and body, the woman. The anti-abortion movement dehumanizes pregnant women.

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose That begs the question. And besides, you've rejected the idea of "person" (and by implication "people") as dehumanizing others. The anti-abortion movement dehumanizes women, so that it can justify using force against them and treating them like property, not persons/people.

@John_R_Shepard @LilaGraceRose We are all people starting from conception. It’s denying and framing personhood based on social constructs that then dehumanizes another person

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose It's the woman's body, or it is not. If it is, she has the right to decide what can be inside of her. If she doesn't have that right, there are no rights, for her or anyone else, because the idea, the principle, of rights has been repudiated. The term may be retain, not the idea.

@John_R_Shepard @LilaGraceRose There are two bodies. During pregnancy, and she conceived the other body by her choices, the unborn child needs their mother for 40 weeks. I don’t. I have all my rights. I don’t want the right to kill my children for needing me.

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose Yes, you did.

@John_R_Shepard @LilaGraceRose I never said it was simply a matter of location

@KristanHawkins Imagine if you were rational and good, not irrational and evil. Those billions did help moms, babies, and families.

Imagine if the billions that have been sent to Planned Parenthood went to ACTUALLY helping moms, babies, and families instead. Defund and debar Planned Parenthood immediately.

@StephenM Freedom of migration is a fundamental right. So is freedom of association. It is not only would-be immigrants whose rights are violated by violating the right of freedom of migration, it's the rights of Americans too, those who welcome them. You repudiate our founding principle.

A useful way to think about migration is to consider what kind of societies the migrants have built in their home countries and to what extent you would like those conditions replicated here.

@StephenM A useful way to think about migration is to grasp that America was founded on the view that *all* individuals have the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not because of where they were born or are, but because of their nature. You repudiate that?

@StephenM No, that's a useless way of thinking about migration. People choose to migrate because they do not like what has been built in their home country. You assume that people have no free will and that everyone holds the views that dominate the country they were born into. Projection?

@StephenM An American who gives birth to a child can easily collect how much in welfare benefits? Are you calling for forced abortions to stop women from giving birth if they collect welfare?

An illegal alien who gives birth to a child on US soil can easily collect welfare benefits worth 40K annually.

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose So you're not a person? Because viewing yourself as a person is a social construct to dehumanize you?

@John_R_Shepard @LilaGraceRose They are people. Personhood is just a social construct to dehumanize humans, so they can harm and kill them. Going with your analogy…who created the burglar in the house they are in?

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose It's her body, the woman's, or it isn't. Which is it? If it's hers (if yours is yours), then she has (you have) the right to determine who are what is inside her (your) body. If she doesn't (you don't) have that right, she has (you have) no rights. You reject your rights?

@John_R_Shepard @LilaGraceRose To kill her own offspring for needing her. Hmmmm…sounds like the woman is using her body, to force her will on another human, by harming and killing their body.

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose You admit that the argument is not simply a matter of location?

@John_R_Shepard @LilaGraceRose But what if you were the one that put them on your own property and the burglar was your own offspring?

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose You tried to claim that the issue is only one of location. My point was to show that location is relevant. If someone you do not want on your property is located on your property, you have the right to forcibly remove them from your property. So much for the "location" argument.

@John_R_Shepard @LilaGraceRose You are comparing a woman’s child to a burglar?

@carsjzz @LilaGraceRose In her uterus. Hers, not yours, not the state's, not its. And she has the right to decide who or what may be inside her uterus. Even though anti-abortionists, like rapists, believe that they have the right to force women to please them.

@John_R_Shepard @LilaGraceRose Not if the woman was the one, with her sex partner, who created her own offspring in her uterus.