Partial-Death Abortion

By Jeff on 24 maart 2005 2:04 pm | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBacks (0)

Congratulations to our beloved Congress and our beloved President of the United States and Leader of the <irony>Free</irony> World—and now also the Highest Court in the Land—for all but halting the machinery of government in order to save the so-called life of one person who's personhood disappeared a long time ago.

But human bodies are important, y'all, because at the end of the day, the simplistic and literalist dunderheads of the Right in this country really don't believe anything at all that their senses can't report directly: God is a Fudge Factor, like Entropy; God is a Threat, like 'Or Else'; God is a Weapon, like a Torch or a Pitchfork. And to them, a Pulse == Life. End of story.

Most vocal Christians aren't 'Pro Life' so much as they are merely Pro Birth. They don't care what happens to children after they're born because they care more about keeping the parents of those post-born children in line. And when the Morals Folks want to ban abortion of all kinds, they trot out Partial Birth abortion as the visual aids to their cause. Makes for a good PowerPoint preso, for sure.

And that's what they're doing now, with poor Terri Schiavo. They're making her into a visual aid to go with the sound bites. They don't really care about Terri in particular, it just makes good news, along the way putting the fear of 'Or Else' into the rest of the god-ridden who would otherwise think instead of react.

If those people really wanted to respect the sanctity of life, they wouldn't defile a single life by making it a poster, a sound bite and a rallying cry. They wouldn't defile a single life by dragging out the biological aspect of the end of that life pointlessly.

Terri Schiavo is America's first Partial-Death abortion. And that's as anti-sacrosanct a thing as I can imagine.

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11 Comments

The Masked Avenger said:

According to you, then, what counts as "alive"? Because in my book, people who are alive are alive.

25 maart 2005 12:31 pm

God of Biscuits said:

If you're asking for a static, well-delimited answer, you're not going to get one.

And that probably rankles you to no end.

If significant portions of my brain were simply gone or destroyed, I wouldn't be me anymore, so my personality and Who I Was would already be dead.

All that would be left would be the biological death of the carcass.

25 maart 2005 1:24 pm

Gordon the Magnificent said:

They don't really care about Terri

Odd, I was thinking that's what you have in common with them.

You really don't give a shit, it's a just another oppurtunity for a gay man to bash the extreme religious right like some of them like to bash gays.

You're as full of hate as they are. The only difference is you like to pack fudge.

Either way, you're both offensive.

26 maart 2005 9:53 am

God of Biscuits said:

Oh, Gordon.

Just go back to your unprovoked potshots at people on your own blog.

You're really not welcome here.

26 maart 2005 7:29 pm

Sam said:

Yeah GoB, you're a fudge packer. And a cocksucker. I just wanted to remind you in case you didn't know that you are indeed gay.

I'll be the first to admit that I don't give a good god damn about Terri Shiavo.

27 maart 2005 11:06 am

Gordon the All Knowing and Self Actualized said:

I'll be the first to admit that I don't give a good god damn about Terri Shiavo.

No surprise there. You're so fucking self-absorbed it's almost unbelievable. Your blog is nothing but posts about you whining about your horrid life. Whine-ass.

Just go back to your unprovoked potshots at people on your own blog.

Funny, coming from the jackass that came to my blog and instigated trouble yet remains sore about the bitchslapping he got. Perhaps my last post was unprovoked, but considering you'd link to our blog twice a month unprovoked, it's rather hypocrtiical of you too call the kettle black, isn't it?

You just keep thinking about who started shit at who's blog first. Don't blame me for your lack of follow through, fat boy.

As for being welcome here, who fucking cares? You were never welcome at my place either. But it never stopped you did it?

27 maart 2005 11:17 am

God of Biscuits said:

Gordon/Geoff...

Jesus loves it when you repeat a thing...just ask most of his followers.

But Jesus most certainly does not like it when you lie. Which you do. I haven't linked to you in months. And even then it was a trackback link to illustrate a point i was making.

You don't generate appreciable extra traffic for me. You create adolescent posts about me that you don't bother linking to my site because you're too cowardly to do so, instead opting to copy/paste bits and pieces out of context.

I don't bother with you any more, Gordon/Geoff. Why are you even bothering with me?

I'd be happy as shit to not be worth your apparently considerably valuable time.

27 maart 2005 11:46 am

nobiz said:

[posting deleted because the commenter is an anonymous doofus]

27 maart 2005 1:44 pm

The Masked Avenger said:

*looks nervously at deleted commment above*

Jeez...that could've been me!!! I hope I'm not so anonymous and doofusy that I have to be taken out back and killed, like the late Nobiz.

28 maart 2005 8:42 am

God of Biscuits said:

I deleted that other comment because it was anonymous *and* because he was accusing someone else of illegal behavior.