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Pro-fetus, anti-woman.
[ Jill Filipovic ]
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There’s a difference between killing a baby and killing someone who killed a baby
You are in an IVF clinic.
It catches fire.
You’re in a room that has a 3-month-old baby and a cooled container with hundreds of viable embryos. The room is collapsing as the flames encroach.
You only have time to save one. Which do you save? Hundreds of “babies” or an actual baby?
There is a car accident.
There is a woman who is 7 weeks pregnant and a 2-year-old child in the back seat.
Both are injured.
The woman will live, but her pregnancy is in jeopardy. The 2-year-old is dying.
You only have time to administer life-saving care to the 2-year-old child or save the pregnancy. What do you do?
The answer to both is you save the actual living breathing baby because I assume you are not a fool. You know there is a difference between a baby and a fetus. You just pretend otherwise because you think making bad faith arguments will be more effective than dealing with the reality.
Maybe you think a mass of cells clinging to a uterus should not be terminated for whatever reason. But in almost every instance of abortion that is what we’re talking about. Not a baby. So please argue accordingly.
And please do not bring up late-term abortions. They are very rare and almost never wanted. It’s usually a very tragic circumstance and dragging people into this debate that had to choose between their life and a pregnancy they very much wanted is really shitty. So don’t be shitty.
Per the CDC, 66% of abortions take place within 8 weeks. 92% take place within 13 weeks. 1.2% occur after 21 weeks.
Also, none of that changes the fact that killing people for any reason seems contrary to what pro-lifers claim to believe. I’m pretty sure there is even a commandment about that. It’s hypocrisy of the highest order.
The death penalty has never been a useful deterrent and about 4% of people on death row could very well be innocent. Are you okay killing innocent people? Because that is what supporting the death penalty means. It’s also more expensive than life in prison and studies show it rarely brings comfort to anyone justice-wise.
I want abortions to be safe and rare. Not because I think it is immoral, but because not having the procedure is preferable to the time, money, and energy the process requires.
I want free contraception and comprehensive sex education. Which has been proven to reduce unwanted pregnancies.
Perhaps in the future abortions will be needed so infrequently people will stop having such bloodlust for folks who have the nerve to want to control their own bodies.
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Roasted: A Few Words about Michelle Wolf, The Daily Show, and The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
So, for those who don’t follow these things, Michelle Wolf (who has worked for The Daily Show, though apparently she’s since gone solo) was invited to do the comedy roast at this year’s White House Correspondents’ dinner. She’s now being attacked for having Done It Wrong, and especially for having insulted Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway. As Molly Roberts from the Washington Post points out, the claim that Wolf mocked them over their appearance is inaccurate; Wolf did make one joke about makeup, but it was a metaphor for what Sanders does during a press briefing: “It’s like she burns facts and then uses the ashes to make a perfect smoky eye.” Maybe not enough conservative commentators know what a “smoky eye” is; or maybe, as Roberts argues, they misunderstand the joke because understanding it would require them to confront their own complicity. Either way, voices are raised loudly in complaint about Wolf’s performance being inappropriate, mean, and unfunny.
I’m just gonna say a few things behind the cut tag to put this particular cultural moment in context. The short story is: If what you want from your comedy roast is a few forgettable minutes of nonthreatening gentle teasing, don’t invite anyone who came up through The Daily Show. Because those people do not come to play.