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Pro-abortion culture often resembles nothing more closely than the stereotypical high-school clique: right and wrong don\u2019t matter as long as you agree who to hate. Direct your snotty derision at the right target, and who cares if it doesn\u2019t make the slightest bit of sense?<\/p>\n

The comparison came to mind as I saw both Jezebel\u2019s<\/em> Isha Aran<\/a> and Salon\u2019s<\/em> Jenny Kutner<\/a> take aim at the below video, a snippet of a 1992 PSA featuring Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins stars speaking out against abortion:<\/p>\n

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As if on cue, both bloggers\u2019 headlines call the ad \u201cbizarre.\u201d And both responses lean heavily on the self-evident ridiculousness of male athletes opining on a woman\u2019s choice, with little effort made to actually refute them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aran calls it \u201cStupid. Troubling. But hilarious,\u201d and a \u201csuccinct overview of the world’s worst and illogical arguments against the choice to have an abortion.\u201d How are they stupid and illogical? She never gets around to explaining, beyond block-quoting some \u201chow dare men be pro-life!\u201d boilerplate from NARAL New York. But hey, if you don\u2019t already know why opposing abortion is, like, totally uncool, then you\u2019re probably not worth explaining it to.<\/p>\n

Kutner puts in a little more effort, but only a little:<\/p>\n

Indeed, some choices\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>different from others \u2014 which is why diminishing a person\u2019s right to make choices about her own body actually diminishes the entire conversation around abortion. There is no way to move the debate forward when the debate itself retains the same misrepresentations of what is the choice in question, really \u2014 that is, a personal medical decision with important ramifications. This video wasn\u2019t and isn\u2019t groundbreaking; it\u2019s the same old thing. It\u2019s what keeps both sides stalled and repeating themselves over and over, making the same tired arguments they were making two decades ago.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It takes some serious chutzpah to claim it \u201cdiminishes the conversation\u201d to disagree with pro-aborts on the outcome of the conversation. \u201cA person\u2019s right to make the choice\u201d isn\u2019t some preliminary background detail\u2014it\u2019s the entire point of contention<\/em>. However, \u201cmisrepresentations of the choice in question\u201d do indeed keep the debate stalled\u2014such as Ms. Kutner\u2019s lie that it only involves \u201cher own body,\u201d rather than the body of an indisputably<\/a> alive, human, and innocent victim.<\/p>\n

Look, the featured players aren\u2019t going to win any debate tournaments anytime soon. And there\u2019s no denying that whenever you try analogizing serious issues to sports, some of the results are going to be corny, the worst offender probably being Ernest Byner\u2019s \u201cI want the right to choose heads or tails when the ref tosses the coin.\u201d But rhetorical clumsiness doesn\u2019t change moral substance, and for Byner\u2019s point, \u201cYou never have the right to choose something evil, like abortion,\u201d these lefty ladies have no response.<\/p>\n

Nor could the cool kids manage a rebuttal to other players\u2019 points:<\/p>\n

People are important because they are human beings, not because of what they do. While desiring a higher quality of life is valid, it is nothing compared to life itself. Don\u2019t make the terrible, irreversible mistake of abortion [\u2026]<\/em><\/p>\n

What kind of choice are we being offered by pro-abortionists? Between what and what? After all is said and done, the choice is simply this: to have a dead baby or a live baby.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in a 1993 column<\/a> on the PSA, Chris Godfrey indicates the full video not only involved a female perspective, but one especially hard to mock:<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most effective words spoken in this video are spoken not by a man, but by the quietly remorseful Barbara Metzelaars, whose husband Pete is a Buffalo Bill. While the Bills worked a miracle comeback against the Oilers to advance in the playoffs, Barbara mourned the killing of her own unborn miracle. Hers is the honest, but often suppressed story of regret and pain that lies behind the unthinking call for \u201cchoice.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s ultimately the most clique-like facet to this hate fest: the petty, childish values that are supposedly important enough to warrant lies and bile are only getting in the way of what really matters. Unfortunately, high school in-crowds tend to be easier to outgrow than the abortion clique.<\/p>\n

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