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\"\"<\/a>Amanda Marcotte, a radical pro-abortion blogger<\/a> whose career peaked when she resigned in disgrace<\/a> from Sen. John Edwards\u2019 presidential campaign (think about that for a second) amidst criticism for filthy anti-Christian writing, isn\u2019t exactly known for persuasive argument.<\/p>\n

But her latest post<\/a> at Raw Story, titled \u201cThe Reality of Abortion,\u201d takes the sophistry to a gruesome new level. Marcotte uses the image on the right to \u201ccounter all the pictures of late-term fetuses\u2014many of which are faked\u2014that anti-choicers use to imply that a typical abortion is much later in the pregnancy than it is\u201d:<\/p>\n

So, for your edification, this is what your average abortion actually looks like [\u2026] This is an important image to hang on to for the next time you have an anti-choicer wanking about how this is \u201ckilling babies\u201d. Ask them to find the baby in this picture, if they\u2019re just so certain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, I would ask Amanda to take a good look at a fetal development gallery<\/a> and reconsider her suggestion that only the late-term fetuses look like babies, and note that regardless of when most abortions take place, most of her side is just as committed to preserving the “right” to butcher those late-termers<\/a> as they are the younger ones. And what\u2019s this about faked images?<\/p>\n

Second, the jar\u2019s contents may not be recognizable as human remains, but considering that it still looks pretty bloody, I kind of doubt that displaying it will have the intended effect with as many people as Marcotte expects it to.<\/p>\n

More to the point, outward appearance isn\u2019t what defines humanity. That\u2019s determined<\/a> by whether an organism is genetically human, alive or dead, and genetically and functionally distinct from his or her mother – questions that are all answered with a resounding yes for the unborn at every stage after fertilization.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake: despite trying to frame the discussion with talk of pro-life \u201cmisinformation\u201d and pro-choice \u201cedification,\u201d Marcotte is trying to appeal to people\u2019s sense of what\u2019s superficially intuitive in order to derail them from thinking about or investigating the matter more deeply. Indeed, if you want to know how deep her own grasp of embryology is, just read the post’s comment section, where she says<\/a>, \u201cWe were also all sperm and egg cells once. So every man who masturbates is committing genocide.”<\/p>\n

Wrong again<\/a>. So remind me: which is the side that values reason, science, and evidence?<\/p>\n

Note well that humanity has a long history of judging one another based on outward appearance, and using those judgments to justify treating certain people differently. It\u2019s not something most of us are proud of. The unborn are merely the latest in what Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft calls<\/a> \u201cthe category [we] invented to justify the killing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mankind has worked hard and sacrificed much to stamp out the vile practice of exploiting superficial differences to exclude classes of people from the human family. Amanda Marcotte and her fellow travelers want to keep it alive. That<\/em> is the reality of abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe she shouldn’t be commenting on these issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":19009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nAmanda Marcotte can't find the baby - 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\/amanda-marcotte-cant-find-the-baby\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amanda Marcotte can't find the baby - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maybe she shouldn't be commenting on these issues.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amanda-marcotte-cant-find-the-baby\/\" \/>\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=\"2012-07-13T19:34:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-04-04T02:41:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Marcotte-Abortion-Jar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Calvin Freiburger\" \/>\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=\"Calvin Freiburger\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amanda-marcotte-cant-find-the-baby\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amanda-marcotte-cant-find-the-baby\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Calvin Freiburger\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/6eb2bf94c8064b71953ba137bf413c4d\"},\"headline\":\"Amanda Marcotte can’t find the baby\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-13T19:34:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-04-04T02:41:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amanda-marcotte-cant-find-the-baby\/\"},\"wordCount\":514,\"commentCount\":50,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Analysis\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amanda-marcotte-cant-find-the-baby\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amanda-marcotte-cant-find-the-baby\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amanda-marcotte-cant-find-the-baby\/\",\"name\":\"Amanda Marcotte can't find the baby - 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