{"id":164692,"date":"2017-04-05T17:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=164692"},"modified":"2017-04-06T00:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:51:59","slug":"not-joking-abortionist-says-hes-pro-life-compares-self-to-lincoln-mlk-comedy-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/not-joking-abortionist-says-hes-pro-life-compares-self-to-lincoln-mlk-comedy-central\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s not joking: Abortionist says he&#8217;s &#8216;pro-life,&#8217; compares self to Lincoln and MLK on Comedy Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Willie Parker, the <a href=\"\/news\/?s=%22willie+parker%22\">abortionist infamous for framing his bloody mission as a sort of Christian mission<\/a>, is back. To celebrate the release of Parker\u2019s new book\u2014which is perversely titled <em>Life\u2019s Work<\/em>\u2014<a href=\"\/news\/?s=%22trevor+noah%22\">noted pro-abortion liar<\/a> Trevor Noah had him on \u201cThe Daily Show,\u201d resulting in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/video-clips\/ojnmam\/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-willie-parker---changing-the-reproductive-rights-narrative-with--life-s-work-\">one of the ugliest, most horrifying segments ever to appear on a channel with &#8220;comedy&#8221; in its name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 4px; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:80396d9e-321e-4049-91f6-50a2741bc5c5\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>NewsBusters\u2019 Katie Yoder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/katie-yoder\/2017\/04\/04\/abortionist-trevor-noah-im-pro-life-women\">notes<\/a> that Noah started off the interview by introducing Parker not as an abortionist, but as a \u201cdoctor\u201d and \u201creproductive justice activist.\u201d Which would normally be bad, but in this case is jaywalking compared to the dishonesty we\u2019re about to see.<\/p>\n<p>Noah\u2019s first softball question asks what it\u2019s like \u201cfor a woman who is trying to have an abortion in the deep South,\u201d which Parker answers by saying that on top of restrictions such as waiting periods, \u201cthere\u2019s the stigma and the shame, women are made to feel that they are doing something immoral by choosing their lives over the ambitions that other people have for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, because having other ambitions for women\u2019s lives is <em>totally<\/em> the reason why people oppose abortion. There\u2019s no other <em>possible<\/em> objection that occurs to Parker, whose medical training has taught him exactly what he\u2019s destroying, or Noah, whose job consists of following what his political foes are saying for the express purposes of mocking it yet is somehow unfamiliar with the most basic pro-life arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, that seems plausible.<\/p>\n<p>Parker then argues that waiting periods are \u201cnot informed by the reality\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s not a woman that I know who doesn\u2019t say that when she pees on that stick and it\u2019s positive, she says, \u201cI\u2019m pregnant, oh great,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m pregnant, oh [bleep].\u201d And so, as a result, women have to, being forced to wait to indulge somebody else\u2019s sensitivities is to say that we don\u2019t trust women with their important decisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally, the studio audience applauded this lazy recitation of meaningless pro-abortion platitudes. Those more well-read than the Comedy Central crowd know that not every woman in an unwanted pregnancy is certain about what to do, and that waiting periods, in conjunction with <a href=\"\/news\/abortions-decline-planned-parenthood-cant-honestly-deny-ultrasounds-power\/\">other measures that reveal the medical facts<\/a> Parker hides from his customers, <a href=\"\/news\/contrary-to-pro-abortion-study-waiting-periods-save-lives\/\">do help those women<\/a>. Those more thoughtful than Trevor Noah\u2019s groupies understand that the intentional killing of an innocent child is not a matter of a third party\u2019s \u201csensitivities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160409\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DefundAd-400b-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next, Noah asks how Parker changed his mind about a \u201cwoman\u2019s right to choose\u201d after coming from a \u201cvery religious background.\u201d Parker responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, I\u2019ve always been pro-life, but what I mean by pro-life\u2014pro-life of the woman. I\u2019ve never been opposed to a woman making that decision, but I was conflicted because I wasn\u2019t clear about what it meant to me personally to provide that care. So I had to think about my religious understanding and my religious conviction a little bit differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you see an answer there? I sure don\u2019t. As usual, Parker neglects to explain where in the Bible he found the \u201cexcept before birth\u201d exception to \u201cthou shalt not murder,\u201d or how he came to learn that \u201ccreated in the image of God\u201d wasn\u2019t referring to people in the womb. He goes on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So I think \u201cpro-life\u201d is a misnomer for people who are against abortion. People who are opposed to abortion are pro-fetus. I\u2019m pro-life, I\u2019m pro-life of the woman, and you can\u2019t have more of an interest in a pregnancy that a woman\u2019s carrying than you have in the woman herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We get the assumption that the woman\u2019s life matters more than the fetus\u2019s, but we don\u2019t get an explanation why, nor an explanation for why the fetus deserves no consideration whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Now here\u2019s where the interview goes from the usual pro-abortion evil to an entirely new level of depravity &#8212; Parker&#8217;s defense for why he compares <em>opposing<\/em> abortion to slavery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think if you\u2019ve never lived with your back to the wall, it would be really hard for you to understand what it\u2019s like to have the most essential aspect of your being, the ability to make decisions about your lives, your life, to have hopes and aspirations and dreams, and to have that controlled by someone else.<\/p>\n<p>I as a man will never face an unplanned pregnancy, but I feel like I\u2019m in the same position that Abraham Lincoln was when someone asked him, \u201cwhy did you free the slaves?\u201d There are many reasons the Civil War was fought, but I like it when he said that \u201cAs I would not be a slave, so I will not be a master.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once more, the audience applauded. Of course.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14610 alignleft\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/slavery-publicdomain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/slavery-publicdomain.jpg 332w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/slavery-publicdomain-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that right: the <a href=\"http:\/\/liveactionnews.org\/unmistakable-parallels-abortion-slavery\/\">modern-day equivalent of the slaver<\/a>, the one denying an entire class of people their humanity, callously denoting them to property status, and brutally violating their most basic human right, is recasting himself as the emancipator.<\/p>\n<p>Parker has the hubris to talk about \u201cthe most essential aspect of your being\u201d while making a career out of literally eliminating beings themselves, to claim he\u2019s defending \u201chopes and aspirations and dreams\u201d while snuffing out countless children\u2019s opportunities to discover and achieve their own.<\/p>\n<p>He does so by invoking a <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/l\/lincoln\/lincoln2\/1:547?rgn=div1;view=fulltext\">quote<\/a> (and possibly getting the timing of it wrong, by the way) that makes much more sense as a condemnation of his own actions: <em>As I would not be a victim, so I will not be a killer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Noah and Parker then have a brief exchange about how awful it would be if women had to travel out-of-state to get abortions if <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> falls, which basically just amounts to the fact that these two <a href=\"http:\/\/liveactionnews.org\/huffpos-defense-of-abortion-access-puts-cart-before-the-horse\/\">don&#8217;t understand the first thing about the Constitution<\/a>. After that comes Parker\u2019s final bit of \u201cwisdom,\u201d which gives the evil in the above slavery comparison a run for its money:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, it occurred to me, Trevor, that this is April 3, the day before my book launch, and when I was told that the book would be launching on April 4, there\u2019s a tab set in my heart around the fact that that was the day that Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. So it struck me that tonight, 49 years ago, was Dr. King\u2019s last night on Earth. For me, what that means is that I like to imagine that I was the little kid living in Alabama who he had hopes and aspirations for, that my dreams wouldn\u2019t be determined by the color of my skin.<\/p>\n<p>And so this book, my career, is really a recognition of the vitality of the movement that he gave his life for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, it might seem more than a little arrogant of Parker to compare himself to Dr. King, but to be fair, when you\u2019ve already <a href=\"\/news\/christian-abortionist-talks-football-abortions-compares-self-to-jesus\/\">compared yourself to Jesus Christ<\/a>, there\u2019s really nowhere left to go but down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-96933\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/10-weeks-baby-embryo-fetus-ultrasound-EHD-672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/10-weeks-baby-embryo-fetus-ultrasound-EHD-672.jpg 672w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/10-weeks-baby-embryo-fetus-ultrasound-EHD-672-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/>It\u2019s no surprise that the audience zombies mindlessly applauded this, too\u2014after all, when your perception of the real world is filtered through the likes of Comedy Central, you probably don\u2019t know that it\u2019s <a href=\"\/news\/rh-reality-check-claims-pro-lifers-would-have-opposed-mlk-should-silent-black-history\/\">extremely unlikely<\/a> Dr. King would have seen abortion as honoring his legacy. And since lies about fetuses being &#8216;not-really-alive hunks of undefined organic material&#8217; is probably the most you hear about embryology, you probably don\u2019t stop to think about the \u201clittle kids in Alabama\u201d who aren\u2019t living anymore because of Parker.<\/p>\n<p>How does Trevor Noah sum up this six-minute celebration of death? &#8220;You tell an amazing story. It is a beautiful book. Thank you so much for being on the show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There you have it: slaughtering children and calling it \u201cpro-life\u201d it are \u201camazing\u201d and \u201cbeautiful.\u201d It would <em>sort of<\/em> fit Comedy Central\u2019s name as some sort of tasteless gallows humor, drawing attention to the depraved, insane fact that that actual legalized murderers get away with thinking of themselves like this in 2017 America\u2014except the host isn\u2019t in on the joke and takes the punch line seriously.<\/p>\n<p>If the broader culture fails to see it too, and if we don\u2019t start seriously pushing back against this evil <a href=\"http:\/\/liveactionnews.org\/planned-parenthood-americas-tolerance-evil\/\">with the clarity and stigma it demands<\/a>, then God help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Parker, the abortionist infamous for framing his bloody mission as a sort of Christian mission, is back. To celebrate the release of Parker\u2019s new book\u2014which is perversely titled Life\u2019s Work\u2014noted pro-abortion liar Trevor Noah had him on \u201cThe Daily Show,\u201d resulting in one of the ugliest, most horrifying segments ever to appear on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":52968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>He&#039;s not joking: Abortionist says he&#039;s &#039;pro-life,&#039; compares self to Lincoln and MLK on Comedy Central<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It may seem arrogant of Parker to compare himself to Dr. King, but when you\u2019ve already compared yourself to Jesus, there\u2019s nowhere left to go but down.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/not-joking-abortionist-says-hes-pro-life-compares-self-to-lincoln-mlk-comedy-central\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"He&#039;s not joking: Abortionist says he&#039;s &#039;pro-life,&#039; 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