{"id":224869,"date":"2020-06-04T08:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T13:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=224869"},"modified":"2020-06-03T22:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T03:21:33","slug":"comedian-lizz-winstead-babies-cancer-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/comedian-lizz-winstead-babies-cancer-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Daily Show’ founder comedian Lizz Winstead likens babies in the womb to cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Notoriously pro-abortion comedians Margaret Cho and Lizz Winstead just released a podcast, featuring the two of them joking about their favorite abortion, comparing preborn babies to cancer, and complaining that women are expected to have emotions over their abortions.<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of “The Margaret Cho<\/a>,” Cho welcomed Winstead as her featured guest. Winstead, best known as the co-creator of “The Daily Show,” is the founder of the Abortion Access Front (formerly Lady Parts Justice League), which uses humor in an attempt to \u201cdestigmatize\u201d abortion<\/a>. During the podcast, they spoke about Winstead’s work promoting abortion, as well as a recent abortion fundraiser<\/a>\u00a0in which Winstead participated while others raised money for the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Preborn babies are not cancer<\/h4>\n

One of the Winstead’s statements was startlingly offensive and betrayed a complete lack of scientific awareness. Speaking of pro-lifers, she said, \u201cWhen they\u2019re like, \u2018Life begins at conception, I\u2019m like A. conception is not a medical term, it\u2019s a term that comes from the Bible,\u201d Winstead said. \u201cBut B., like, I don\u2019t subscribe to your premise on any level. And so, when you say, \u2018What about, it\u2019s a life with different DNA,\u2019 and it\u2019s like, \u2018Cancer has different DNA.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

To begin with, conception is not a “term from the Bible”; like many medical terms, it’s a word\u00a0with roots in Latin<\/a>. The American Pregnancy Association refers to conception<\/a>. So does the Endowment for Human Development<\/a>, a non-profit organization dedicated to the science of fetal development with a vow of neutrality towards bioethical issues.<\/p>\n

Comparing a preborn child to cancer is the far more offensive statement, yet it’s unfortunately\u00a0hardly unusual<\/a> among abortion advocates<\/a>. It betrays either a lack of knowledge towards human development or willful ignorance of it. Cancer cells do have different DNA from a person’s healthy cells, this is true; however, they’re a mutation of those cells. A preborn child’s DNA doesn’t mutate from her mother’s DNA; at the moment of conception (fertilization), an entirely new, separate DNA strand is created.<\/p>\n

Additionally, cancer is not a living human being. A preborn child’s development will, within just weeks, result in a beating heart, measurable brain waves, and unique fingerprints.<\/p>\n