2 posts tagged “pro-life”
As if, now 8 days before Christmas, one isn't tired of hearing the traditional holiday music and all of its permutations... I run across this Catholic.net comic strip. Umbert the Unborn--featured as part of the "Culture of Life."
It took me a until the 3rd frame to figure out what the 'artist' was doing--constructing an anti-choice Christmas carol!!!! How very clever! As a matter of fact, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is one of the most beloved *childhood* Christmas songs of which I am aware; everyone knows the words, the tune, and the story-of-the-bullied-turned-leader concept that makes it so uplifting. It's a song that already boasts a host of parodies--why not add another?! Between the song, the cartoons, and (my favorite) the 1970s claymation classic, the carol is ubiquitous from Black Friday until December 26th. Some of us are even "fortunate" enough to be trapped in Christmas-time until the New Year.
However, the idea of a fetus driving the sleigh of a fictional character through sub-freezing temperatures is the least of Umbert's worries. The final frame gives us the *real* opinion of the anti-choice movement:
"...have a great life until birth!" (Emphasis and outrage mine)
Yes, baby Umbert--who will be protected from evil health care professionals by God-warriors who waste entire days of their lives screaming at women in front of health care offices, murdering physicians and nurses, fire-bombings of clinics, and other means of obstruction of social justice--we want you to have a fabulous and wonderful LIFE. We want you to enjoy your experience from conception...through implantation, embryogenesis, organ development, and then the descent through the birth canal. Then we really couldn't care less. You're born, your life has been protected....time to go soldiering on in front of Planned Parenthood. Speaking of soldiering...where will you be 18 years from now? We'll need you to pick up a Selective Service registration form--might have to send you off to kill some "Islamic Extremists" and their innocent neighbors in order to protect our right to be fabricated-Christian-doctrine Extremists.
Doesn't anyone understand that simply ensuring that a baby is born does absolutely nothing whatsoever for his or her life!? Barring unsuitable intrauterine conditions, inherited disorders, embryological problems, or premature birth, babies enjoy basically the same experience during gestation. Their lives are the same as everyone else's...until they're no longer attached to their mothers. Then, the determination of a "great" or a "poor" life can be made. Being born, while obviously necessary to have a life, is not the dictator of the quality of life. Being born to a poor, single mother with 3 children, however, is going to be an undeniable influence on quality of life, both immediately, and in the future. It seems not to matter to those who would gladly kill for the sake of a bundle of cells. They just want a birth to celebrate. They don't want to take any responsibility for the appropriate upbringing, health care, or other needs of a child who is born when he or she probably shouldn't have been.
Another concept often missed by the Anti-Choice Religious Right is this: not every child born is going to be a beautiful, white, straight, Christian. Some of them will be....black! Gay! Atheist! Buddhist! Progressive! *GASP!!* The Catholic responsible for the animation of Umbert readily ignores these facts. Umbert is, as far as we can tell, a well-developed, Caucasian male. His parents, as evidenced by past comics, are married and happy to be expecting. His father works and "takes care of [his] mother," which is another wonderful generalization that can be applied to Umbert's perceived socioeconomic class.... but few others'. One of his friends (how they can be in the same environment, let alone a spaceship, I don't know...ask the crazy people responsible!) is black, but seems to be in the same situation enjoyed by Umbert, and is only featured occasionally.
I guess the bottom line to this post is this: to all of my beloved anti-choice protesters, radically conservative activists, and those dedicated to manipulating your religious doctrine to support your own opinions of oppression toward women....
GOTCHA!!!! May the child you 'save' be a gay/lesbian, liberal agnostic, who votes in EVERY SINGLE ELECTION.
As if, now 8 days before Christmas, one isn't tired of hearing the traditional holiday music and all of its permutations... I run across this Catholic.net comic strip. Umbert the Unborn--featured as part of the "Culture of Life."
It took me a until the 3rd frame to figure out what the 'artist' was doing--constructing an anti-choice Christmas carol!!!! How very clever! As a matter of fact, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is one of the most beloved *childhood* Christmas songs of which I am aware; everyone knows the words, the tune, and the story-of-the-bullied-turned-leader concept that makes it so uplifting. It's a song that already boasts a host of parodies--why not add another?! Between the song, the cartoons, and (my favorite) the 1970s claymation classic, the carol is ubiquitous from Black Friday until December 26th. Some of us are even "fortunate" enough to be trapped in Christmas-time until the New Year.
However, the idea of a fetus driving the sleigh of a fictional character through sub-freezing temperatures is the least of Umbert's worries. The final frame gives us the *real* opinion of the anti-choice movement:
"...have a great life until birth!" (Emphasis and outrage mine)
Yes, baby Umbert--who will be protected from evil health care professionals by God-warriors who waste entire days of their lives screaming at women in front of health care offices, murdering physicians and nurses, fire-bombings of clinics, and other means of obstruction of social justice--we want you to have a fabulous and wonderful LIFE. We want you to enjoy your experience from conception...through implantation, embryogenesis, organ development, and then the descent through the birth canal. Then we really couldn't care less. You're born, your life has been protected....time to go soldiering on in front of Planned Parenthood. Speaking of soldiering...where will you be 18 years from now? We'll need you to pick up a Selective Service registration form--might have to send you off to kill some "Islamic Extremists" and their innocent neighbors in order to protect our right to be fabricated-Christian-doctrine Extremists.
Doesn't anyone understand that simply ensuring that a baby is born does absolutely nothing whatsoever for his or her life!? Barring unsuitable intrauterine conditions, inherited disorders, embryological problems, or premature birth, babies enjoy basically the same experience during gestation. Their lives are the same as everyone else's...until they're no longer attached to their mothers. Then, the determination of a "great" or a "poor" life can be made. Being born, while obviously necessary to have a life, is not the dictator of the quality of life. Being born to a poor, single mother with 3 children, however, is going to be an undeniable influence on quality of life, both immediately, and in the future. It seems not to matter to those who would gladly kill for the sake of a bundle of cells. They just want a birth to celebrate. They don't want to take any responsibility for the appropriate upbringing, health care, or other needs of a child who is born when he or she probably shouldn't have been.
Another concept often missed by the Anti-Choice Religious Right is this: not every child born is going to be a beautiful, white, straight, Christian. Some of them will be....black! Gay! Atheist! Buddhist! Progressive! *GASP!!* The Catholic responsible for the animation of Umbert readily ignores these facts. Umbert is, as far as we can tell, a well-developed, Caucasian male. His parents, as evidenced by past comics, are married and happy to be expecting. His father works and "takes care of [his] mother," which is another wonderful generalization that can be applied to Umbert's perceived socioeconomic class.... but few others'. One of his friends (how they can be in the same environment, let alone a spaceship, I don't know...ask the crazy people responsible!) is black, but seems to be in the same situation enjoyed by Umbert, and is only featured occasionally.
I guess the bottom line to this post is this: to all of my beloved anti-choice protesters, radically conservative activists, and those dedicated to manipulating your religious doctrine to support your own opinions of oppression toward women....
GOTCHA!!!! May the child you 'save' be a gay/lesbian, liberal agnostic, who votes in EVERY SINGLE ELECTION.
