It's probably just a coincidence, of course, but Sarah Silverman's show on Comedy Central started with the topic of abortion, including being at a protest in front of a clinic and her own experience with three abortions.
Obviously, abortions aren't funny (and please don't watch them if you might be offended by the subject), but these videos provide some perspective on both sides of the issue. We did notice the police uniforms look a little familiar...
Obviously, abortions aren't funny (and please don't watch them if you might be offended by the subject), but these videos provide some perspective on both sides of the issue. We did notice the police uniforms look a little familiar...
Video 1 | 1:56
Video 2 | 2:24
(HT Jill Stanek)
16 comments:
Sarah Silverman is weird but the videos were a nice perspective on this whole situation.
especially if you really "get them", as I'm sure most pro-lifers don't!!
What's weird is that anyone would think this is a "nice perspective" on such at tragic issue. Talk about tasteless. There is no "nice perspective." Yes, I'm pro-life, but I'm not brain dead or ignorant that I can't "get" the feeble attempt at humor. It shows how low our society has sunk to make this the topic of comedy sketches. While I would agree sometimes both take themselves too seriously, I don't think this is the answer. I dont' think we need the last comment, that's for sure.
I though Hitler was dead. Aparently 9:40 needs to relax a little bit.
Hitler dead? Of course not he has been reborn in the form of Steve Trombley.
As long as there is a planned parenthood which was founded by Margaret Sanger and her communist beliefs, Hitler will live on.
The babies being butchered and murdrered in the abortion mills represent the gas chambers which took 6 million innocent lives.
Since 1973 there have been close to 50 million babies exterminated.
Yes Hitler lives on.
Is this what prochoice people are proud of?
10/4/07 9:40 AM:
It's easy to say things that'd get you punched in person when your name is "anonymous."
It's also cowardly.
10/4/07 2:33 PM:
So, what do you think about 9:40 AM's comment?
"As long as there's a planned parenthood that was founded by Margaret Sanger and her communist beliefs, Hitler will live on"
I'm a proud German-American, and I happen to know that Hitler was very much against abortion (or any birth control) for German women. In fact, he expected German women to have as many children as possible--there was a military medal called the "Mutterkreuz" awarded to mothers who produced ten or more children.
And would you really want to go back to a pre-Planned Parenthood society? When birth control was illegal in America even for married women, and when women had very little control over how many children they had? I know I wouldn't!
I am against abortion, but very much in favor of the other services Planned Parenthood provides. And I know very few women my age (50) who have more than two or three children, so I know that millions of us have benefited from being able to prevent conception thanks to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
"[Abortion was prohibited] for women under forty with fewer than four children (in 1986 the age barrier was raised to forty-five) [...] Compulsory monthly medical examinations for all women of childbearing age were introduced to prevent abortions, which were permitted, if at all, only in the presence of a Party representative. Doctors in districts with a declining birth rate had their salaries cut.
The population did not increase, but the death rate from abortions far exceeded that of any other European country: as the only available form of birth control, illegal abortions were widely performed, often under the most appalling and dangerous conditions. Over the ensuing twenty-three years the 1966 law resulted in the deaths of at least ten thousand women. The real infant mortality rate was so high that after 1985 births were not officially recorded until a child had survived to its fourth week - the apotheosis of Communist control of knowledge. By the time Ceausescu was overthrown, the death rate of new born babies was twenty-five per thousand and there were upwards of 100000 institutionalized children."
-From "Postwar" by Tony Judt, speaking about Romania.
There's what happens in a society where birth control and abortion are both illegal.
Now if we could get the mexicans to plan their parenthood...preventing conception, not abortions, perhaps our educational, healthcare and welfare systems might return to normal. It will be a big feather in PP's cap if they can contribute to this.
Actually, I know many Mexican immigrants who are limiting their family size. They have a saying in Spanish: "la familia pequena vive mejor" (the small family lives better).
Hey Brian... are you the one who would do the punching in person?
I doubt it. And don't talk about posters that use anonymous. You are no more identifying without your last name than people using anonymous. Big deal you just use your first name. Brian who?
Mel George
10/4/07 7:07 PM:
Pitt, thank you for asking. And I at least own up to all my posts here, which I always sign with more than just "anonymous" and a timestamp. It's easy to say things when you can't be held accountable in any way, but people can look up what I've said in other threads.
The original comment was deleted, though, so it's a moot point right now.
See, I'm a Brian too.
I am also accountable.
My recolection is that Brian has used his last name in other comments. Based on that there has been four people that I am aware of that have truly identified themselves on this blog.
And you are not one of them Leo. If you truly want to identify yourself then provide your surname as well. Just a first name only doesn't cut it.
10/5/07 9:12 PM:
That's the disadvantage of not having a blogger account, yes.
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