Category Archives: Anti-Choice

PZ Myers: Irrational Humans

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I really have a hard time wrapping my mind around the strategies of anti-choice activists. I’ve encountered a few, and I’ve browsed some of their websites, and am so unimpressed with their tactics . . . but they seem to work effectively with some people. . . .

The argument is never about whether some state is alive or not. Your appendix and tonsils are great masses of living cells, but if the organ becomes inflamed, doctors will cut them out and throw them away. Every time you poop, about a third of that mass that you excrete and flush away consists of living bacterial cells, yet no one hesitates and feels regret at the tragic loss of life when their hand is on the handle.

The argument is about whether that living thing is a person requiring extensive legal and moral protection, and it’s entirely clear that “life” is not a sufficient criterion, or people would be lobbying for the protection of turds and tonsils. We are not absolutists about protecting all life; we can’t be.

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It’s Not Muslims Who Are Trying To Impose Their Religion On Everyone: It’s The [International Child Raping Organization That Is] The Catholic Church

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. . . [R]eligious [reactionaries] in the United States are trying to impose their values and doctrine on the rest of us.  No, they won’t try to achieve such objective by telling us that abortion, marriage equality and contraceptives are sinful and against the will of God; that sanctimonious strategy would backfire on them. They are doing it in a much more sinister and deceptive way: They are suggesting that by not legislating and implementing their beliefs the rest of us are guilty of denying them ‘religious [privilege].’ After all, the best defense is a good offense and the best offense is to claim to be “the victim.”

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Where Are the Women? (Video)

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[Thursday, 02.16.2012] on Capitol Hill, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform assembled a panel to discuss the birth control mandate in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The panel consisted of eight male anti-choice, anti-contraception religious leaders and one female anti-choice witness. None had health credentials. . . .

California [Reactionary] Darrell Issa chaired the panel, and because [Reactionaries] hold a majority in the House, he was able to choreograph the entire proceedings. He thoughtfully assembled a diverse group of men who don’t necessarily have any real, fact-based reason to oppose birth control except for the fact that it made them feel icky. Invited to testify were five men. And no women. The whole thing was, to put it as succinctly as possible, depressing as fuck.

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In politics, the concrete usually wins over the abstract [Because thinking is hard!]

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. . . [M]ost people value [Christian privilege] as an abstract principle, they don’t make decisions based on abstractions. They tend to look at the concrete manifestations of those abstractions. . . . So while many people will say they support [Christian privilege], they are going to be angry if [women workers] access to their contraceptive services are taken away. The situation is similar to those older Tea [Bagee] supporters who say they support getting government out of health care as an abstract principle but will fight tooth and nail to retain their Medicare.

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Just say No,! to the Susan G. Komen Foundation

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Source: MoveOn.org

One may enjoy reading the comments associated with this MoveOn.org post, for some of them realize, and speak to, the metaphysical realm of the argument. Of course, many others mix the physical with the metaphysical, while some write purely on an emotional level. Once one realizes the differences between the physical, metaphysical, and emotional levels of argumentation it is quite entertaining to sit back and observe the incoherence of others arguments.

It makes one wonder how is it that many of the sane end up in insane asylums, while the insane aimlessly wonder through life without ever breaching the physiological senses, what’s more, voting for the reactionary ticket, and reproducing like there’s no tomorrow. [MSH]