An excerpt from the Huffington Post. When Erica Jong has something to say, she goes right to the gist of it:
Erica Jong
President Bush and the Blastocyst
Bush is the reality show President. Not only is he kissing babies, he's symbolically kissing blastocysts. He put on an amazing show on Tuesday surrounded by adorable infants and children who were adopted as embryos thanks to The Snowflakes Frozen Embryo Adoption Program of The Nightlight Christian Adoption Agency. Who can doubt that encouraging infertile couples adopt embryos is a good thing? This is a no brainer (even if you're not Christian). But until Bush and Laura themselves adopt all the embryos that might otherwise be doomed to waste their sweetness on the desert air, his blastocyst reality show will be show and tell and nothing more.
If every three-day-old embryo has the legal protection of a human life, how far are we from the time that sperm and egg cells are also protected as incipient human lives? Philip Roth had a spoof on this three decades ago when he imagined the Christian Right outlawing male masturbation on the grounds that it was anti-life. At the time it seemed like slapstick comedy, now we are catching up with Roth's wildest fantasies...
Go read the rest of it.
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2 comments:
The natural extension of that point of view would be to pass a law making it illegal for an ovulating woman not to have sex while she's fertile. . .
You are dead right, SFalpha. Wonder if anyone ever thinks of the law of unintended consequences? Talk about having to run somebody down! (grin)
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