Let's play a game! I'm going to paraphrase some of the real things real famous pro-abortion people have said in public and we can do a little deconstruction excercise. Come on! It'll be fun.
A white male rock star:
"1) If abortion had been illegal when my girlfriend became pregnant, I would not be in the position I'm in. My career would have been stalled at the outset. I would not have been able to tour around the world and see how other more liberal countries have handled this issue. I would not be speaking to you (the interviewer) today.
2) Maybe later I'll be able to support a child.
3) But free people must have the right to choose when the right time is.
4) This rule especially applies to poor people since welfare and public health programmes are inadequate to raise a child and public schools are overcrowded and underfunded."
Translate:
1) My career is more important to me than human life, even the life of my own child. It is much more important to me to fulfill my personal jet-setting ambitions than be responsible for the care and protection of another human being.
2) Even though I am the lead of one of the world's most highly paid acts, I'm still unable to adequately support a child. By extension, I believe that anyone who makes less money than I should also not have children. Only the super rich should be allowed to have children because material poverty, which I define as being less than super rich, is worse than death.
3) The definition of being free is the freedom to kill another person with legal impunity whenever we want.
4) It is better for the poor that they be killed before birth than attend a public school or be dependent upon state benefits. Kill the poor.
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A black Rap star: "Gold-digging women use pregnancy to trap rich men into either supporting them or paying for expensive abortions. Use condoms to prevent pregnancies."
Translate:
Legal abortion is not for the safeguarding of the rights of women, it is to enable men to use them for sexual entertainment without consequences. But abortion can be more expensive than you realise, so in order to continue to use women as your own personal meat puppets, you should diligently use contraception.
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Some kind of presenter (female, white) on MTV: "I am glad I had an abortion at 16, otherwise I would by now have a 20 year-old child.”
Translate:
Being a mother is bad. Being a mother of a child who is a grownup would reveal that I'm old enough to have a 20 year-old child. And that would be bad.
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What am I demonstrating here? That celebrities are shallow, selfish and materialistic? And stupid? Isn't that something we all know already?
So if we all know this, why do we hang on their every word? Why do the idiotic and frankly evil things that come out of their mouths subsequently pop out of the mouths of the ordinary 17 year-old kids who follow them?
I feel a bout of cultural cognitive dissonance coming on...
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You could be playing this game for a very long time if you used what
ReplyDelete"real famous pro-abortion people" have said.
But then again on regular newscasts they glorify anything that comes out of their mouths. People will then think that if they said this or that it must be true or the correct way to think because these famous people are saying it!
People they are STUPID!
Everytime I hear these celebrities speak I throw up a little in my mouth.
David,
ReplyDeleteno. Ask me here.
Do any of these people cited have names?
ReplyDelete...Then again, the thing about pop music from the past ten years is how interchangeable all the "talent" seems.
That's more or less what I was demonstrating; just how interchangeable these ideas are, and how truly unoriginal are all the things people are conditioned to say about abortion.
ReplyDeleteWicked sense of humour! As Michael Coren said, why do we listen to Hollywood types (and that would be music celebrities too) - don't we know they have the most dysfunctional lives of anyone?
ReplyDeleteIs it ok to have an abortion after a child is raped again by a catholic priest and they become pregnant as a result. Just asking.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I really would like an answer to my valid question.
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