Then you and the people that agree with you on what constitutes the beginning of human life need to be fighting tooth and nail for social services and social welfare programs to support people before, during, and after pregnancy/birth. “Life begins at conception” and “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” are fundamentally opposing ideals unless they are only backed by cruelty, cognitive dissonance, and hate.

If you truly believe that all life is sacred, and that life begins with conception, you need to be turning around and fighting the people beside you on the importance of supporting the humans that are outside the womb.

Adoption is not the silver bullet people seem to think it is. If the baby isn’t white, or has health problems, there’s a much higher chance they’ll end up in the foster care system.

Separately, carrying a pregnancy and giving birth are extremely dangerous. Depending on which state you look at, American women face the highest maternal death rate in the developed world. Also, the leading cause of death of pregnant women in America is intimate partner homicide, and intimate partner violence frequently escalates during pregnancy. How does adoption fix those problems?

Sometimes, there are no good options.

That’s good to hear. I always like seeing local folks doing well in their own communities more than any chain.

Sounds like some damn good reasons to go to the locally-owned restaurant and try to ensure that they get to stay in business. It always sucks when the mom-and-pop/family-owned local places go out of business because people just go to the chains all the time.

In Second Gig (the second season of the anime) they do go over her past more and it reveals that she was a little girl that survived a plane crash (?) and was one of the first children to have a fully cybernetic body. That season explores a lot about her relationship with her past and present identities, motivations, and principles. It is one of my favorite pieces of media.

Donna Noble is the best Dr. Who companion and I will not be entertaining any arguments that say otherwise.

Lt. Riza Hawkeye (Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Major Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell - the 80’s movie and the anime series. Live action one needs to die in a fire)

Jo Lupo (Eureka)

Domino (Deadpool 2)

Go-go Tamago (Big Hero 6)

Mako Mori (Pacific Rim)

Golden Sparrow (Forbidden Kingdom)

Gamora and Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Evie (V for Vendetta)

Hela (Thor: Ragnarok)

Valkyrie (Thor: Ragnarok)

Molotov Girl/Millie (Free Guy)

Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel)

Cherri Bomb (Hazbin Hotel)

Carmilla Carmine (Hazbin Hotel)

Sypha Belnades (Castlevania)

Lisa Tepes (Castlevania)

Princess Mononoke

Sophie (Howl’s Moving Castle)

Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Storm, Jean Grey (X-men)

I could keep going all day. These are just the ones that come to mind without having to dig around my watched media for ideas.

Nicotine is terrible for your brain and vaping is likely to have the same risk for lung cancer that smoking does, it just tends to cause a different kind of cancer. Anxiety, and any mental illness for that matter, is a hell of a burden to bear, but adding chemical dependence, health complications, and financial burden on top of it is not going to make anything better.

Recent animal and human tissue studies have shown that vaping is just as likely to cause lung cancer as smoking does, it just has a predilection for a different type of lung cancer.

That would be extremely dangerous for someone with an overactive sense of empathy and limited impulse control.