I normally don’t post about topics like this, but in this special case, I just have to. Logic demands it.
The question posed by the anti-Choice commercial goes, “If Einstein had been aborted…”
And my response, before they even finish their sentence:
If Einstein had been aborted, than e=MC2 would have never been formulated (at that point in history) which means that Leo Szilard very well may have never been able to create the Atomic Bomb, which means roughly 100,000 - 120,000 innocent Japanese civilians would still be alive.
These ass-hats need to A) visit a rape crisis center, B) watch Butterfly Effect and C) Learn some god-damn history.
As for Einstein being aborted… it would be as if he had never existed, which means that the world we’d live in today would be perfectly normal and par for the course and none of us would be any worse off. If we existed at all, since the Japanese would have done a hell of a lot more damage on their way out of the war. Those guys were prepared to go down to the last man. (Not commenting the act [of bombing Japan] itself, just stating a fact.)
Anti-Choice groups have similar sayings:
The father is crippled, the mother is deaf and blind, they already have 13 other children and live in horrible poverty, so would you advise them to abort their 14th pregnancy?
If you said “yes,” than you just murdered Mozart!
But it is all a matter of playing mind-games with you. It isn’t a logical argument, it is an emotional one, and a piss poor one at that.
I’d answer the above question with: I would advise her to do what she thought right, and support her in her choice. (You see, they phrase it to be a yes/no black/white question, but it isn’t. It never is.)
Don’t let them Jedi mind-trick you. In the end, it all boils down to stripping women of their sovereign right to have the final say over what happens to their own bodies. Today they talk about Einstein, tomorrow they are trying to pass laws aimed at strapping women to a table for 9 months.
My opinion on the subject:
A foetus does not begin to develop a brain until the 5th week. It has no function, other than as a collection of cells. Heck, there are more living cells in your average cancer tumour until that point. (Sounds harsh, but it's true.) It is a potential for human life, nothing more. About 40% of pregnancies self-terminate anyway and nobody knows why. Most women would never even know unless routine blood-screenings catch the lingering pregnancy hormones revealing that, yes, for a brief time, she was pregnant, but it failed and whatever was there was simply re-absorbed.
Maybe god is a part-time abortionist? (And that is how you piss them off. Facts. Lots of facts. Keep the facts coming, and they will hate you for it.)
So IMO, dictating that a collection of cells, that does not even have the beginning of a brain yet, have more rights than the living breathing women whose body allows it to exist in the first place, is pretty repugnant.
And let’s not forget that these are largely the same groups of people who don’t give a rat’s ass about helping kids who are already here! Can you imagine how your typical Tea Party member would respond to the suggestion of raising taxes to fund youth outreach programs and homeless shelters? Oh lord, that’s rich. But they will march in front of women’s heath clinics day and night.
I am convinced that it isn’t even about abortion for these people, it is more about, I dunno, intellectual masturbation. A big, old-fashioned circle jerk. They know it doesn’t ultimately do anything, but lord, it feels good to get together with a bunch of like-minded people and get off on how great and self-righteous you are. I swear they lace Bibles with crack.
