politics
The anti-choice crowd expecting heaven as described in the Bible will probably be horrified to discover, upon arrival, that it is populated chiefly by deformed embryos. According to an article I’ve been browsing in Reason:
John Opitz, a professor of pediatrics, human genetics, and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Utah, testified before the President’s Council on Bioethics that between 60 and 80 percent of all naturally conceived embryos are simply flushed out in women’s normal menstrual flows unnoticed.
I’m not encouraging anyone to get an abortion. In fact, I’d like to see abortions become an extremely rare event. However, the line of thinking from some anti-abortion advocates is absolutely bizarre: discouraging use of the birth control pill because it is an abortifacient? That’s true, if you believe that life begins at the point in which the ovum is fertilized. Who in their right mind puts a single cell in the same category as a 30-year-old mother?
Try this thought experiment. A fire breaks out in a fertility clinic and you have a choice: You can save a three-year-old child or a Petri dish containing 10 seven-day old embryos. Which do you choose to rescue?
