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Pro-choice video from South Dakota
Oct. 19th, 2008 08:42 pmThis video concerns an anti-abortion ballot measure in South Dakota, but parts of it are relevant to anyone arguing the pro-choice case.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztfn-kayOps
Most of my contact with anti-abortionists is through the Catholic Church, and one of these days I want to make two posters one of these days on the subject. The first will say "Choose Life", below which will be pictured cockroaches, maggots, and all sorts of other examples of life-- Catholics are not even known for being vegetarians (heck, we don't even count fish as "meat"), let alone being particularly respectful of life in general. They mean "human life", so they should say so.
The second poster would show an eight-cell human embryo, with the message that THIS is the issue. The question isn't whether we should kill innocent human beings, the question is whether THIS is a human being. And the answer is that no one knows. There isn't any scriptural basis for assuming that an embryo is human; it's something that the church made up a hundred years ago based on the principle of "better safe than sorry"...except that it's not safer this way, as explained in the video above.
Perhaps my second poster will say [EMBRYO] = [MOTHER], or perhaps even [EMBRYO] > [INJURED IRAQI CHILD], since these so-called "pro-life" people have no problem whatsoever with pre-emptive war. The Catholic Church likes to talk about voting one's conscience, and their official pro-life position includes opposition to execution and pre-emptive war and all of that, but on the pulpit, somehow the only issues that get mentioned are the ones supported by Republicans. Absurd.
Grr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztfn-kayOps
Most of my contact with anti-abortionists is through the Catholic Church, and one of these days I want to make two posters one of these days on the subject. The first will say "Choose Life", below which will be pictured cockroaches, maggots, and all sorts of other examples of life-- Catholics are not even known for being vegetarians (heck, we don't even count fish as "meat"), let alone being particularly respectful of life in general. They mean "human life", so they should say so.
The second poster would show an eight-cell human embryo, with the message that THIS is the issue. The question isn't whether we should kill innocent human beings, the question is whether THIS is a human being. And the answer is that no one knows. There isn't any scriptural basis for assuming that an embryo is human; it's something that the church made up a hundred years ago based on the principle of "better safe than sorry"...except that it's not safer this way, as explained in the video above.
Perhaps my second poster will say [EMBRYO] = [MOTHER], or perhaps even [EMBRYO] > [INJURED IRAQI CHILD], since these so-called "pro-life" people have no problem whatsoever with pre-emptive war. The Catholic Church likes to talk about voting one's conscience, and their official pro-life position includes opposition to execution and pre-emptive war and all of that, but on the pulpit, somehow the only issues that get mentioned are the ones supported by Republicans. Absurd.
Grr.
