Guest post by Eldritchfan
So I’m sure most of us have probably heard the old chestnut anti-abortion crusaders love to toss out:
A cancer patient shakes his fist at the sky and screams: “Why God?” and a voice from the clouds replies: “I sent someone who would have found a cure, but you aborted him.”
Let’s roast that chestnut and crack it open.
How about instead:
“-but she died in childbirth after being forbidden to seek an abortion despite her high-risk pregnancy.”
Or perhaps:
“-but she was denied an education since her religious clan believed in proper roles for the sexes.”
Let’s try:
“-but he died of a preventable illness, having been denied medical attention by his parents because they believed in the efficacy of prayer.”
Maybe:
“-but he killed himself, having been relentlessly tormented for his homosexuality.”
Or how about:
“-but the public school science curriculum had been killed by a lethal injection of creationism.”
Let’s go with:
“-but she was killed as a witch in Nigeria.”
“-she was stoned to death in the Middle East.”
“-she was shot at age fourteen in the Middle East.”
“-she dated the wrong boy and her unassimilated immigrant community in Europe killed her to assuage her family’s honor.”
“-funds for legitimate research when to homeopathy instead.”
In conclusion: they know where they can shove that smug little fable. The same place where they found the ridiculous assertion that religion is in any way pro-life.
