part of the reason i haven't blogged much lately is because i've been having a lot of back-and-forth with aforementioned conservative douchebag. it got to be pretty respectful, and i was ready to agree to disagree, until he dropped the following pro-life madness:
Next to the unseen carnage of millions of innocent, unborn lives dismembered and suctioned away in this country alone, the American slave trade, the holocaust, and least of all the war in Iraq pale in comparison. Lincoln said that the civil war might have to go on until every drop of slave blood was lost by American soldiers. If every lost life required retribution, more people would die than the cumulative loss of life in every American war that has ever been fought.
my response:
"That's insane. I'm done."
i mean, i like to be open-minded and hear everyone's point of view. i think i do a damn good job at that, but jesus christ. this guy sums up the old aphorism of 'conservatives are only pro-life until the life is out of the womb', or however it's said.
i'll be the first to tell you that i'm indecisive about the whole moral issue of abortion, but god damn, some people really ARE crazy enough to blow abortion clinics up.
Monday, June 16, 2008
adventures in political email: part 4
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That's the thing about abortion. If you hold the life of a 6-week old fetus with no central neural function equivalent to the life of a walking human being who can feel pain and question his own existence, then yeah... abortion is worse than all of those atrocities.
I happen to have a much less liberal definition of human life.
As for the argument that a fetus will eventually become a sentient human person, the same can be said of any individual gamete. If you really want it to, any single sperm cell or ovum could eventually become a person. So why aren't we lamenting the genocide of the menstrual cycle? Why aren't we protesting apoptosis, by which the human body kills hundreds of thousands of sperm cells every day? To take it one step further, why are we not lamenting the fact that we allow trillions of human cells to die every day without being cloned?
It's a matter of where you draw the line.
exactly.
this dude seemed to unequivocally suggest that life begins at fertilization. i told him that i agree with the roe v. wade's rationale of "if it can survive outside the womb, it shouldn't be aborted."
if he attacks me for calling him a maniac, i'm going to tell him to pass anti-porn-and-kleenex legislation for contributing to the death of trillions of gametes per day.
fact is, unlike climate change, evolution, and other issues, the jury is actually still out on what consitutes a human life.
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