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Jonathan Swift, This is Your Cue

 

 

Brilliant:

 

I don’t hate gay people! I just can’t bring a child into the world who would have such a hard time. I mean, we’d do the same thing if the fetus had Down syndrome, and so would about 67 percent of others if they found themselves in that situation. Even Richard Dawkins tweeted that it would be immoral to have a child who would suffer because of his genetics. Many people believe it’s immoral to bring a child into the world who is just going to suffer. Ending the pregnancy is just better for everyone. It seems so obvious.

I don’t understand. It’s my wife’s body. It’s her choice, and I agree with it. It’s our choice of what to do with our pregnancy. How can anyone else tell my wife what to do with her body?

Tomorrow is the day we are supposed to go in for the abortion, but we’ve had to switch clinics twice due to the threats. We actually ended up crossing state lines to go to a clinic, four hours from home. Thankfully the federal law allowing abortion makes that possible. I was exhausted, but it’s our choice. No one else can tell us what my wife is allowed to do with her body.

We got to the clinic almost an hour early. They made us sit in the waiting room for a while and finally called us back, but instead of walking us into a table with stirrups like we expected, they escorted us into an office. A man in a lab coat was waiting at a desk.

“I recognize you,” he said, after looking at us sternly for what seemed like an eternity. I didn’t know what to say, so I didn’t say anything. My wife didn’t speak either. “What you are doing should be a hate crime, and I won’t have any part in it,” the man said, looking angry.

“But it’s my body,” my wife said, sounding defiant, but like a little girl too. “It’s my right.”

“It’s hateful,” the doctor responds. “You are terminating this pregnancy because you don’t want a gay child. Are gay children less valuable than straight children?” He sounded like a teacher trying to impart a lesson to a very slow student.

“No, but—” my wife started to say.

“A gay child has just as much value as a straight child. In fact, you are lucky! Gay children are very rare. Census numbers put the number of homosexuals in America at around 3 percent. It wouldn’t take many more people like you,” he nearly spits the words, “to eliminate homosexuality in America. That’s genocide, and I won’t have that on my conscience!”

With that, we were ushered out. My wife cried all the way home. When we got there, we found that someone had firebombed our rented townhouse and wrote “Bigotry Doesn’t Belong Here!” and “Love Wins!” in spray paint on the sidewalk. I guess some fetuses are more equal than others, but I can’t understand it. I just followed all the arguments I’ve heard from our society to their logical conclusions.

Go here to read the rest.  Too many people always make the rash assumption that they will be the killer rather than the killee.

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Philip
Philip
Friday, March 1, AD 2019 9:06am

Extraordinary. What a paradigm.
Thanks Mr. McClarey. Passing it forward, if you don’t mind.

Philip
Philip
Friday, March 1, AD 2019 9:09am

Steve Lavadas wouldn’t mind..
Thanks again for the feed.

Bob S. in NC
Bob S. in NC
Friday, March 1, AD 2019 5:47pm

The movie makes me want to throw up.

Mary De Voe
Friday, March 1, AD 2019 6:27pm

Cannibalism is a corrupt form of human sacrifice. Francis Parkman wrote about the Native Americans cannibalizing other tribes. In Sling Blade a film with Billy Bob Thornton the unwanted babies were buried alive.

Mary De Voe
Sunday, March 3, AD 2019 1:50am

Some people like to accuse Catholics of being cannibals in the reception of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, Soul and Divinity.
Jesus Christ with informed consent and perfect will commanded us to receive Him.
The newly begotten innocent child wills to survive in an act of the free will, proof of the rational human soul. Any child who does not or cannot because of malady will to survive becomes a miscarriage.
Cannibalism is murder as is abortion as is human sacrifice. The victim does not will to die.

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