A very interesting and highly revealing piece by Paul Rosenberg published on Salon:
The Twitter thought experiment that exposes “pro-life” hypocrisy
Last Monday, a tweetstorm evisceratng abortion foes went viral. Science fiction writer and comedian Patrick Tomlinson introduced it this way:
Whenever abortion comes up, I have a question I’ve been asking for ten years now of the “Life begins at Conception” crowd. In ten years, no one has EVER answered it honestly.
The question is as follows: Would you save one 5-year-old child from a burning building, or save 1,000 embryos. The point: No one actually thinks that embryos are the same as living children. But an entire movement is based on lying about it, and using that lie to manipulate people, in order to control women like slaves.
The entire article with links to the extensive twitterstorm is well worth reading over on Salon.
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