"Hey Shorty"
This post by blogger Jon Carlson is terrific. Since it quotes Margaret Cho at length, it is coarse and filled with swears. Read it anyway. It paints a chilling picture of a procedure that is not the squeaky clean "right" its advocates claim.
Cho is trying to make the case the abortion should be a choice, despite how much it hurt her both physically and emotionally. She saw pro lifers outside the clinic as condemnatory rather than sympathetic, something everyone who is pro life must be wary of becoming. The other critical bits are that Cho opposes the death penalty because taking innocent life is wrong and there is always the chance of a legal error. That's a fair and logical position, one I have some sympathy for, even if not 100%. But how does she square that opinion with this: "I just killed my fetus. How you like me now! Hooo. Hey Shorty - it's NOT your birthday, it's NOT your birthday…. Hooo…."
Wow. At a minimum she recognizes that the baby was alive. The "hey shorty" thing may or may not mean she recognizes that it was human life. She blames the physical pain on the doctors, not her choice to undergo the procedure, and completely fails to recognize that the whole problem has its ultimate origin in her decision to have sex with some guy "she didn't even like."
Margaret needs to look in the mirror and start taking some responsibility for her actions and stop expecting the rest of us to develop better rubbers and more painless procedures so that she can go on living her ideology. It's the ideology that needs fixing, not the laws of physics and biology. All the rest of us can do is try to make this world as welcoming as possible for children who are unplanned and the parents who must deal with them in as humane a manner as possible.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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