Of course everyone has the right to celebrate their impending kid however they see fit—we would not have gone the sonogram photoshop route, but perhaps that’s because the 3-D smush face ultrasound printouts we walked out of our OB's office with always could have been titled, “Ben Franklin on a Very Bad Day.” Still, casually and publicly assigning human attributes to not-yet-human embryos—including an avocado-sized embryo in the family portrait—does not seem like the best way to argue against measures that seek to treat that avocado like a member of our collective American family. Our advice: If you’re not, for instance, OK with the movement to dole out harsher punishments to a woman caught smoking pot if that woman is pregnant, then please don’t go superimposing a blunt onto your sonogram to then Photoshop onto your stomach. That’s just tacky.
"does not seem like the best way to argue against measures that seek to treat that avocado like a member of our collective American family" yeah, gee, we wouldn't women to start thinking they're actually pregnant with a baby-that would be bad for them. Pretty soon people might start thinking unborn babies are living human beings instead of pregnancy tissue, then what would happen? OH NOEZ!!!
I'll do ya one better-why not get a tattoo? The following image courtesy of NoBlood, a regular commenter here, who emailed me the tale of a friend who got this tattoo while trying to get pregnant:
In your face, bitchez. "Caring for women" feminists would, of course, be totally cool with you photoshopping WELCOME,SAILORS in place of the scary fetus images. We're all just objects, ya know.
Um, if the embryo a human woman is carrying in her uterus isn't a human embryo, then what the bleeping bleep is it?
ReplyDeleteAnd if they aren't, why can't proaborts produce photographic evidence to prove it?
ReplyDeletethe reason why they've yet to prove it with pics of their own is cuz they know they're wrong deep down, and it's hard to argue with science without making an ass of oneself.
ReplyDeleteI mean, you can argue if you want that a human embryo isn't yet a person. You can argue that it isn't yet worthy of human consideration. I'll disagree completely, but at least you've got an argument. But to say that a human embryo isn't human yet isn't to raise complex philosophical questions or even to bicker over semantics. It's just plain stupidly stupid. Dog embryos are fundamentally canine, cat embryos are fundamentally feline, and human embryos are fundamentally human. That's basic biology. I wasn't always sentient, I wasn't always viable, but as the offspring of two humans I couldn't possibly have been anything but human. Ever.
ReplyDeleteThey can't argue any of that with any credibility-even a third grader grasps that only human beings come from human beings, and that once conception occurs, the life cycle has already begun, and the only things added are nutrition and time ( conincidentally the same two things added after birth to continue our existence). Proaborts can grasp that I'm the same human being now that I was as a teenager, but not when I was @ 8 months gestation? It ain't rocket science.
ReplyDeleteoff topic, but here's some more idiocy. let's hope this is a troll, but i highly doubt it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.facebook.com/IHateTeenMoms
Thanks, just posted that. Classy.
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