Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts points to Laura Klassen’s annihilation of the pro-abort meme my body my choice:
Laura Klassen helps MSNBC understand
Understand the difference between a vaccine and a baby. Follow this link, and you’ll see the ridiculous argument that compelling people to get a rushed through vaccine is the same as not letting women abort their pregnancies.
Like so many arguments for progressives, it’s stupid and so ridiculous you almost feel an SNL skit wouldn’t do it justice. Yet the man stands there, a serious face, and seems to think this is really a ‘gotcha’ moment. For any thinking, sane person of good will, it’s far from that.
So in the clip below, the devoted Life defender Laura Klassen explains why the whole ‘my body, my choice’ is false to begin with, thus demonstrating the stupidity behind a ‘vaccines equal babies’ argument:
Yep. Again, like so many progressive arguments, it relies on a mountainous pile of credulity to accept. Slick slogans and bumper sticker activism does wonders for justifying sin. When one steps back and thinks honestly, however, it’s not difficult to see the glaring problems.
Go here to comment. Most pro-abort arguments are dishonest, but the mendacity of this one has always been breathtaking.
Bonus:
Meanwhile, the New York Times may not have a womb, but they do have a Wordle. This morning, they decided to eliminate its controversial contents:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/09/wordle-scraps-fetus-as-todays-answer-amid-roe-v-wade/
Liked both of Pro Life videos. Thought the animated one was perfect for teens and 20 something.
The New York Times is nauseating in their cowardly wokeness. I mean their readership are adults not children, right?
I subscribe to the paper and online versions of THE EPOCH TIMES, Truth & Tradition. May 4 paper copy, which is like a Sunday paper, below the fold an exclusive story on Rosanne Boyland’s death “New Jan. 6 Bodycam Videos Show DC Police Officer Assaulting Unconscious Protestor” continued on pages 6 and 7. Compared to NYT, WSJ, WPO, the subscription is cheaper. IMHO The Epoch Times is better written with more information on a variety of subjects with Front Page, Opinion, Life & Tradition, Mind & Body, Home sections.
Agree Cam animation is great- perfect for young girls. It’s beautifully animated.
Well done Laura Klassen. I particularly like her satire.
That MSNBC anchor is something. Once again peddling the dishonest argument, that is, that somehow pregnancy is a life threatening situation. Pregnancy=disease. That abortion is linked to women’s “health”. Abortion is the “cure” to the “disease”. But pregnancy isn’t life threatening if say, you want the baby. Hmmm. Childish logic.
Show me a blastocyst that can survive outside a woman and maybe you have a point.
Seriously, what would you allow women to do? What laws should govern us? You want to ban birth control, keep us out of jobs, make our husbands our tyrants, keep us out of college and probably high school.
You will immediately say I’m crazy and never answer my question. What do you want to allow women to do with our lives? What will you do to gay or trans people? Who will you send to prison or kill?
Show me a blastocyst that can survive outside a woman and maybe you have a point.
Show me an infant or toddler that can survive on his or her own.
Once again, you are merely attempting to justify the killing of the innocent and that is always an exercise in sophistry.
The pro-abort meme my body my choice could imply that birth equals theft.
You will immediately say I’m crazy
That’s probably because you are either crazy, or lying about what you believe.
You demand the right to kill another human– and dare accuse others of wronging you, for opposing that?
For the left freedom means making sure that babies can be killed. Maybe the ability to have sex at all times as a secondary, but it is secondary.
Karen, I don’t think anyone here wants any of those things you listed. I don’t think you’re crazy; you just probably haven’t talked to a pro-lifer before. Women are biologically different from men, and that creates a burden for them if you want to think of it that way (although most people consider it a blessing). There’s no benefit for anyone in denying that a woman performs a different role in reproduction. It makes sense for the law to protect the most defenseless. But no one thinks of it as punitive.
Karen, I don’t think anyone here wants any of those things you listed. I don’t think you’re crazy; you just probably haven’t talked to a pro-lifer before.
I don’t think it would much matter if she did. See Chesterton on attempting to reason people out of positions they were never reasoned into.
When my grandmothers were at the midpoint of her years of childbearing (ca. 1930), abortion was unsafe, illegal, and rare and it was common for the trade in contraceptives to be very much on the QT.
At the very same time, a quarter of the formal sector workforce was female and many women not formally employed were farm wives (who tend to be very busy women). There were at that time, various sorts of tertiary schooling – nursing schools (student body almost exclusively female), normal schools and teachers’ colleges (about 80% female), and general interest colleges and universities (about 63% male). There were also commercial schools and junior colleges (for which census data does not distinguish men from women among those enrolled). The one component of the tapestry of tertiary schooling which was predominantly male would have been certain professional schools ensconced in universities (which schools accounted for about 12% of the college and university enrollment and provided training for just north of 1% of the working population). As for secondary schooling, in 1918, around the time my grandmothers were of an age to be finishing high schools, the enrollment at this nation’s secondary schools was 56% female.
At least one of my grandfathers would have been amused to discover he ruled his house with an iron fist.
That was the world of my grandmothers. Now compare it to what Karen fancies are my ultimate objects.
I don’t think that quote comes from Chesterton. I can’t find it cited online. It’s tight enough for him, but it doesn’t fit his way of thinking. In Orthodoxy, for example, he keeps getting nudged toward Catholicism because he just finds it sound on every point. The weight of a thousand different observations guides him more than a master theory or Use of Reason.
Karen probably showed up here wanting to vent against people who she thinks support terrible things. It hasn’t occurred to her that she might be wrong in what she supports, and it might take her a while to get there, but it helps if she realizes she’s wrong in what she thinks we support. One man sows, another reaps.
Abortion is the price men charge women for entry into their world.
A pity how so few people see it.
“Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.”
— Jonathan Swift
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/10/reason-out/
Karen probably showed up here wanting to vent against people who she thinks support terrible things. It hasn’t occurred to her that she might be wrong in what she supports, and it might take her a while to get there, but it helps if she realizes she’s wrong in what she thinks we support. One man sows, another reaps.
It hasn’t occurred to you that Karen manufactures caricatures of people for reasons quite apart from anything they’ve done or said, and will continue to do so no matter what they say or do.
A pity how so few people see it.
I’m not seeing it myself.
Karen – the females who comment here don’t support abortion or contraception, they are not subjected to the tyranny of their husbands, do have college degrees and also juggle work with raising children. So on behalf of those women (Im go out on a limb here) – we resent the stereotype you are painting of us. Stop using the handmade tale narrative to justify your support of a world where a woman has the right to snuff the life of another defenceless human being because they came around at an inconvenient time and/or they came around at all.