Saturday, July 25, 2015

Abortion and Religion or AS Religion?

Patheos hosts some great bloggers. But it hosts a very wide range of perspectives. So, in following links, I cam across this page:
Recent Perspectives on Roe v. Wade

The blog posts selected were about evenly split. I suppose in 1934, if Patheos' page editor had been around, he would have posted 6 articles on why Jews shouldn't be sent to internment camps and 6 articles on why they should.

Body Parts, Schmarty Parts. What’s All the Fuss About?
July 20, 2015 by Bethany Blankley
Very dark, snarky satire. Almost passes as what it critiques.

If You Want to Defund Planned Parenthood, Think Through the Consequences First
July 19, 2015 by Hemant Mehta

Mehta is the friendly atheist. In this brief post, he tries to pull a Twitchy by posting a Twitter conversation between a Christian and a troll. Unfortunately, the troll steamrolls the poor guy with a non sequitur. If PP closes she will have no recourse but to go bankrupt paying for her gyn services and finally die a painful death due to a lack of free birth control, STD treatments, and abortions on demand. She says there are no other alternatives on her block in the Iowa countryside that take her crappy insurance plan that offer her lifesaving STD treatments. Apparently, she refuses to consider a better policy (couldn’t be she has limited choice among expensive policies with lousy benefits because of ObamaCare? Nah. Its because of ignorant Christians who hate her. And it couldn’t be that $500M in free money from the federal government + tax exempt status gives PP a competitive advantage to other providers – thereby limiting her choices. IOW, could it be that she is defending policies that hav resulted in reducing her choice and increasing her costs? Sure, she should act all superior towards her interlocutor to hide how stupid she really looks.

Why I’m a Christian Who (Still) Supports Planned Parenthood
July 20, 2015 by Dan Wilkinson

Dan is the Unfundamentalist Christian. Considering his argument in defense of PP harvesting body parts from pre-born children who they have killed, perhaps he should rename is blog the Utilitarian Christian. I'm surprised to say that I hadn’t seen the “they’d just throw it away anyway” argument prior to Dan’s essay: “Why shouldn’t cells from aborted fetuses be used for medical research with potentially life-saving applications? Would those opposed to abortion prefer that these resources be simply squandered? Since the abortion is going to happen anyway, what possible reason is there for not utilizing the aborted tissue?”

That segment probably approaches some sort of record for euphemisms per square inch.

Why I wrote the same thing I always do when the Liars for Jesus attacked Planned Parenthood yet again
July 18, 2015 by Fred Clark

Fred is some sort of progressive Christian. His take, nothing to see here, you’ve seen it all before.
BTW, how can you tell when a Pro-Life … sorry, Anti-Choice person is lying? A: His lips are moving.  If an Anti-Abortion liar tells a lie and nobody listens, is he still lying? Yes! Because Fred will combine it with some urban legend about Pepsi using aborted babies as a flavor enhancer and ta-da! Whatever he’s saying is a lie. You can tell it’s a lie because he is anti-abortion and he’s talking about PP. Therefore he is lying. Don’t even bother to see for yourself what those two PP executives were recorded saying. Just you go back and call them names.

It must be nice to be a Progressive / Pro-Abort / Democrat / liar – but I repeat myself.
It gives you the ability to hold two contradictory statements in your head and not see the contradiction. The videos discuss human organs. The lackeys lying in their defense can only find “tissue” or “cells”.

Planned Parenthood Isn’t Selling Baby Parts: Unpacking the Lies in a New Undercover Video
July 14, 2015 by Hemant Mehta

Our friendly atheist also adds that we are so dumb we think that killing a child in utero and extracting her liver, lungs, heart and brain and then exchanging them for money isn’t selling body parts. Man, we must be way dumber than he is.

#PlannedParenthoodSellsBabyParts….so what?
July 14, 2015 by Rebecca Frech

“Over her salad, she explains how the unborn children are carefully turned to a breech position before the doctor, guided by what he/she sees on an ultrasound, uses forceps to carefully rip off body parts until the fetus has been removed completely from the uterus without destroying the commercially valuable organs such as the heart and liver. She even details what they do about that pesky head that’s often too large to fit easily through a cervix which isn’t dilated enough to extract it easily.”

“This latest video is nothing new. It is the same brutal disregard for human life which is necessary for abortion to be possible.

“There is nothing new in Planned Parenthood, or any other abortion provider, making money off of the destruction of human life. Making money off of killing babies is what they do.

“We shouldn’t be shocked and outraged that they are selling off the organs of these poor massacred children. We should be shocked and outraged that it is legal for them to be killed in the first place.”


We are to the point, in the increasingly evil of our banality that if CMP came out with a video of PP workers eating fried fetus fritters, these people would say just that: “so what?”

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