Comments on: Culture of Life Kills Little Blastocyst Babies

By: Magis

Magis — Sat, 27 May 2006 20:38:20 +0000

Idiocy generally contains its own punishment.

By: spectral_ev

spectral_ev — Sat, 27 May 2006 19:15:09 +0000

if catholics and evangelicals were anywhere near living by the standards that they think the state should set for all of us you would see a huge difference in their behavior. so let them start with their own faithful, and leave the secular laws of the state alone. then we can see the results of their practice of faith, and if it’s all they say it is they can persuade by example.
back in my part of the country, we had a religious state with the the puritans. church was mandatory even if you were going to hell, and they hanged anyone whose beliefs were different. they might have hanged catholics too if the issue came up. a state religion is no fun if it’s not your relilgion.

By: Carpenter

Carpenter — Fri, 26 May 2006 22:12:24 +0000

sorry I mean to say sex once a month. I also meant to spell everything right.

By: Carpenter

Carpenter — Fri, 26 May 2006 22:09:05 +0000

Bwahahahaha!
I’d liek to thing this would force the crazier to accept contraceptives and birth control, but I fear it will only be a larger drive to more wide spread abstinence only policies, like sex once a either right when you ovulate or else only during your period.

By: hp

hp — Fri, 26 May 2006 19:06:19 +0000

Snarkiness aside, you don’t have to be a wingnut–or even a believer in God–to see a moral difference between a fetus dying of natural causes and being killed by human action.

Yeah, but most pro-lifers I’ve seen like to ignore the fact that many fertilizations do not implant. I saw an article about working toward a future where all fertilized eggs do implant and all pregnancies do succeed, and wondered at the crazy. Because, seriously, there are damn good reasons why implantation may not occur, and miscarriage numbers are high before 12 weeks, and in most cases, you’re not doing the mother or fetus any good by preventing those natural actions.

By: Rex Little

Rex Little — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:13:16 +0000

“. . .any embryo deaths due to this are purely the work of God.”

Snarkiness aside, you don’t have to be a wingnut–or even a believer in God–to see a moral difference between a fetus dying of natural causes and being killed by human action.

By: TheGlimmering

TheGlimmering — Fri, 26 May 2006 12:47:20 +0000

Wait, I’ve got it: sex kills babies!

By: Thlayli

Thlayli — Fri, 26 May 2006 08:24:01 +0000

Nice post ... Buffy. ;)

By: Kyra

Kyra — Fri, 26 May 2006 06:12:49 +0000

Seems like the only truly Godly thing to do is to declare lifelong celibacy.

Unless you’re white. And female. Then it makes you a selfish feminazi and a race traitor, apparently.

By: viaeplx

viaeplx — Fri, 26 May 2006 04:23:25 +0000

If I ever decide to kill someone or put someone in danger, remind me to push them off a cliff rather than shoot them, so that the natural physics of gravity will be the cause of death rather than bullets or other foreign materials. The reduced sentence could really be helpful to me. I’ve heard that if one stays in prison for too long, you tend to get attached to the place.

In other news, belief in abstinence, belief in Jesus Christ as God, and being pro-life are three distinct, independent concepts. Pro-lifers, however, may now credibly suggest that all sex kills babies, except for gay sex, the only type of sex that carries with it no risk of destroying the embryo. Given that even most fundies consider murder to be worse than gay sex, perhaps heterosexual sex should be banned.