I fail to see, how you fail to see that this is an issue. You don't think people (on both sides) blindly following an agenda is a problem? Instead you IGNORE that simply because I'm on the other side of YOUR agenda. You are trying to discredit the post simply because it doesn't fall in line with your beliefs.
No, I'm discrediting it because it's orthogonal to the issue. The problem with people blindly following something is that they won't be in a position to notice if there's a problem with it. But that does not, in turn, tell us anything about the validity of that position. People can blindly believe in freedom of speech, too, but that doesn't make it a bad idea. The idea stands on its own merits, or not, regardless of who subscribes to it or why.
You agree that people on both sides blindly follow agendas. That's certainly true, but that perfectly illustrates what I'm saying: if both sides do it, then the fact that people do it doesn't really tell us anything about which side is right.
This doesn't mean it doesn't matter, it just means that you're arguing something other than the issue itself. That video doesn't get us any closer to figuring out how to balance competing rights, or whether or not competing rights are even in play when an abortion takes place. What you're describing is a problem with the political process in general.
Tells me you're completely ignorant to the issue.
Leaving aside the fact that the post you're quoting is over a decade old, I'd like to hear just what you think is ignorant about it. Logically, "it's her body" is a meaningless thing to say in a debate about where one body ends and another begins, yes? It assumes the very thing being disputed, which means it isn't an argument for it. Hence, it's a slogan. You may or may not agree with it, but it does not come from a shared premise.
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