Dead Babies

There's this big anti-abortion thingy at the university today. They've got a bunch of pictures of tiny dead babies, and these pictures are supposed to deter people from having abortions. "Hey, I would totally have this abortion dude, but one time I saw a really sick picture or an abortion baby so I really can't." As I walked by, some guy was asking them "Why are you here? Why do you have these disgusting pictures?" Among the many stupid responses that were offered, such as "We WANT to shock you, I HOPE you're shocked", the most stupefyingly stupid was "We have a RIGHT to be here, man..." Okay then. As many of you know, I'm a philosophy major, so I obviously have a lot of opinions to offer on this subject, and any other topic which is useless or controversial (or controversial AND useless, like God). To start off, "I'm here because I have the right to be here" is ridiculous. I have the right to wear adult diapers on the outside of my pants. I have the right to stick pencils in my ears and nose and run around going "PIOU PIOUUUU". As Charleton Heston might tell you, I have the right to bear arms. Charleton Heston is a moron. It strikes me as ludicrously ironic that you could make an analogous argument for abortion itself - "I'm getting this abortion because I have a right to!". One problem with this kind of argument, my friends - the right to do something does not necessarily entail that it SHOULD be done, or that it is, in any way, a good idea.

Now that that's taken care of, what about abortion. Is it right or wrong to kill a human foetus? What is the plural of foetus? Foetuses? Feoti? Well, it's just hard to say isn't it. While I could write a whole paper on here about why abortion is or is not morally right, I don't really see the point - In some cases, it seems that abortion is the best thing to do. If you're going to argue against abortion, you need to argue against people's rights to abortion, and say that people should not even have the right to choose; don't appeal to our emotions with big pictures, like you're potty training a 2 year old. You can visit a slaughterhouse and still support the meat industry, folks. The reality of the situation is that sometimes, bringing a baby into the world is far worse than the alternative. I'm not saying we should be using abortion as a method of birth control, I'm saying that if all other alternatives have been exhausted, and this is the only one left to prevent a life of misery, go ahead and do it.

Hey, I just thought of one good thing about the protest outside - at least we know that, while they're here, they're not bombing clinics? Yaaayyyy...

Spiker

PS - I would just like to say that you can't have "Slaughterhouse" without "laughter". Awesome! And on the same note, isn't there always some fun in funerals? Hmmm...