{"id":17091,"date":"2012-05-25T14:49:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=17091"},"modified":"2013-04-03T02:11:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:11:33","slug":"finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding humor in abortion while distorting the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some pro-aborts, like Marianne from xoJane.com<\/a>, think abortion can be funny. They see no need for anyone to hold a serious attitude about it. But as a society, we wouldn\u2019t tolerate a flippant attitude towards the torture and abuse of prisoners of war, and we certainly wouldn\u2019t turn the murder of any innocent person into a comical event – at least not without some considerable social repercussions. But Marianne recently argued that for some women, abortion is a wonderful experience that they look back on with a smile, or the saving grace for a silly sexual mishap, or for others, a horrible experience that they have to laugh about in order to move forward. She also believes we are each allowed to hold our own definitions of when a person becomes a person. Her words are proof that pro-aborts still won\u2019t accept what abortion really is. She makes that clear many times throughout her post<\/a>, “Abortion Can Be Funny! Why We Don\u2019t Have To Be SO SERIOUS About the Big A.”<\/p>\n

The Humorous Side of Murder<\/strong><\/p>\n

There seems to be a growing number<\/a> of pro-aborts becoming frustrated with the \u201cabortion is a necessary evil\u201d refrain chanted by a larger percentage of the pro-choice movement. Marianne is one of them. She believes that by calling abortion anything but fantastic and often carefree, pro-choicers are validating the pro-life mentality that abortion is wrong.\u00a0 She writes:<\/p>\n

I think that refusing to approach abortion as a terrible and serious thing actually does more to destigmatize it and open up the conversation than all the hushed tones in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition, she finds no reason for anyone to be bothered by the fact that, for some people, abortion is a laughing matter. She says:<\/p>\n

There are people who are going to treat [abortion] with humor – for any number of reasons, including everything from laughing in the face of trauma to not finding it traumatic at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But we should be bothered by this, just as we should be bothered by people who find humor in gay-bashing or racism. Humor has no place in the painful, torturous death of a human being. Abortion should never be taken lightly because, legal or not, it is an action that results in the end of someone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Distortion of the Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like many pro-aborts, Marianne seems unwilling to admit that the aborted child almost never looks like he or she does at the fertilized egg stage of human existence, or that life does in fact begin at conception. And she believes that she gets to have her own definition of what a fertilized egg is. She writes:<\/p>\n

I love life-saving medical procedures. I love that they exist and that they are available to people.\u00a0 I do not identify a fertilized egg as a \u201ctiny baby\u201d — and that is absolutely my right. It\u2019s also totally OK if you do identify that fertilized egg as a tiny baby. I\u2019m not going to try to talk you out of your personal definition. It\u2019s a fundamental and personal difference in worldview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But personal opinions aren\u2019t the same as facts or scientific proof. They are the same as Hitler deciding that Jewish people are not members of the human race. Just because he said it, that doesn\u2019t make it true, and it doesn\u2019t excuse the torture that was done to an entire group of human beings. Luckily for us, we have dictionaries. And a fertilized egg, also known as a zygote<\/a>, is defined as the brief first stage \u201cin the development of a genetically unique organism.\u201d Once the zygote implants in the uterus, it is called an embryo. And an embryo<\/a> is defined as \u201can animal in the early stages of growth [\u2026] especially<\/em>:<\/strong> the developing human individual from the time of implantation to the end of the eighth week after conception.\u201d<\/p>\n

During those eight weeks, a baby goes from a fertilized egg to a tiny baby<\/a>. Most women who aren\u2019t planning to become pregnant don\u2019t realize they are pregnant until they miss a period. Between four and eight weeks’ gestation is when most women find out they are pregnant.\u00a0 And when Marianne leaves out these facts, she\u2019s doing a disservice to young women and girls reading her words.<\/p>\n

In addition, according to the Centers for Disease Control<\/a>, 91.4% of abortions are performed before 14 weeks’ gestation. There were 825,564 abortions performed in the U.S. in 2008. That percentage represents 754,565 babies. And 75.9% (572,794) of those babies were killed by curettage<\/a>, in which the fetus and amniotic sac are sucked out of the uterus and ripped apart in the process. As you can see in the diagram below, this is in fact a \u201ctiny baby\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Not an egg, not a bunch of tissue – a baby with arms, legs, a face, toes, fingers, and all. Another 60,266 unborn babies (7.3%) are killed between fourteen<\/a> and 20 weeks’<\/a> gestation, and 10,732 more (1.3%) are aborted after 21 weeks’ gestation. Anyone who understands this and takes this lightly or finds humor in it is just as bad as anyone who supports hate crimes and genocide.<\/p>\n

The conclusion that can be drawn from a post like Marianne\u2019s is that it seems the old abortion arguments aren\u2019t working<\/a> as well as they used to. The pro-abortion assertion that unborn babies are nothing more than a group of cells is constantly being defeated. Therefore, it seems that the new pro-choice strategy is to portray abortion as the punchline of a comedic tale of a one-night stand or a necessary, important, valid, and beautiful human right to be exalted. But will those who are anti-abortion yet pro-choice be able to stomach the request that they begin to love abortion? Or will this latest twist in the battle to keep abortion legal be the last desperate attempt of pro-aborts to gain back wavering supporters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proof that pro-aborts’ arguments are faltering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":17103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nFinding humor in abortion while distorting the facts - Live Action News<\/title>\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\/finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finding humor in abortion while distorting the facts - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Proof that pro-aborts' arguments are faltering.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-05-25T18:49:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-04-03T06:11:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/deception-truth-lies.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\"},\"headline\":\"Finding humor in abortion while distorting the facts\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-25T18:49:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-04-03T06:11:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts\/\"},\"wordCount\":989,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Opinion\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/finding-humor-in-abortion-while-distorting-the-facts\/\",\"name\":\"Finding humor in abortion while distorting the facts - 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