The Choice: A One Act Play
by Bill WillinghamCharacters:
Possible: A well-spoken bit of biological material.
Mr. Patronus: Possible’s visitor.
The Setting: A warm, dark place.
(Curtain. Possible is alone on stage when Mr. Patronus enters.)
Possible: Who are you?
Patronus: My name is Mr. Pratronus. I’m sorry to suddenly intrude like this, but I’ve been assigned as your STO.
Possible: Stow?
Patronus: STO. Your Survival Training Officer. Your birth time is approaching and I’ve been sent in to train you in a few techniques that might increase your chances of surviving the next few days.
Possible: Survive what? My birth? My understanding is that medical technology has advanced far enough that childbirth has become — well, if not quite routine, at least considerably less dangerous. Why would I need eleventh hour special training just to undergo an event where a wealth of state-of-the-art material and a number of trained medical professionals are dedicated to seeing it through without incident?
Patronus: Unfortunately I’m not here to address a failing of medical technology or training. Medicine is as advanced now as it ever was in all of human history. That much is true. Instead I’m here to address a certain condition of philosophy and law. We’re a bit worried because some of your parents’ recent behaviors have raised a number of red flags. For example, this late into the gestation process they haven’t begun to discuss potential names for you. That’s one of the bigger danger signs that will get our attention every time.
Possible: But I already have a name. I’m Possible.
Patronus: I’m sorry but that’s not your name. Not really. It’s more of a title. A description of status. It’s the name every pre-born child, until his parents choose an actual name.
Possible: So I’m in danger, but of what? You said it had something to do with philosophy? I have to confess, I’m a bit confused.
Patronus: According to the culture in which you’re about to be born, assuming our efforts to insure your birth are successful, you aren’t yet a human being. You aren’t a person.
Possible: Are you kidding me? If I’m not a person, what am I?
Patronus: By definition of law, aided by a truly insidious twisting of language, you’re currently nothing more than a bit of extraneous and non-viable biological material.
Possible: Nonsense. I already have every evidence of personhood. I have thoughts and feelings. I have hopes and dreams. I’ve experienced joys and sorrows.
Patronus: None of which matters, according to the law.
Possible: I don’t believe that. Who could possibly believe that I’m not yet a real person?
Patronus: Well, that’s one of the truly frustrating aspects of this struggle, because no one does believe that — not your mother, or father, or the legal and medical people who’re determined to define away your humanity. Even the powerful social-political organizations created to bring about your destruction, without legal or social consequences, don’t actually believe you’re nothing more than a lump of waste tissue. But that’s what they need to claim. That’s the fiction they need to perpetuate in order to justify their overall agenda in general, and the all-too specific actions they may be contemplating where you’re concerned. Oddly enough, the more tenuous the agreed-upon fiction, the more desperate and vicious its proponents become in not allowing any reasonable examination of it.
Possible: That may describe those with an agenda to perpetuate. Some people just turn out bad and broken. But I can’t believe people as a whole could be so cynical. How could a wise and educated society possibly vote for such an obvious sham?
Patronus: I’ll let you know, should people as a whole ever get the chance to vote on it. This is a condition almost entirely imposed by the courts. On those rare occasions when people do insist on voting on some aspect of it, the results are routinely overturned by judicial fiat.
Possible: And the people just accept that?
Patronus: Not all of them do. Some are working hard to restore a better world, starting with a more rational and obvious definition of life and when it begins.
Possible: Some, but not all?
Patronus: I’m not sure what to tell you. Perhaps many stubbornly confuse language with reality. Define someone as a non-human and that person has indeed become a non-human, in fact, as well as convenience of labeling. I know that seems insane, but that’s the world you may be about to join.
Possible: And maybe the one I’m not about to join. You’ve mentioned danger and destruction. You’re scaring me, Mr. Patronus. I think it’s about time you told me exactly what you’re here to do. What do you hope to train me to survive?
Patronus: During your birth the medical people in attendance might be there to make sure you survive it, or they may be sure to make sure you don’t.
Possible: Oh please. Get serious.
Patronus: I assure you, Possible, I am deadly serious.
Possible: You expect me to believe that a doctor and an executioner happen to be the same profession?
Patronus: Under a very special set of circumstances and with the consent, or at the insistence, of your mother — yes.
Possible: And I have no say in the matter? Despite the Hippocratic oath, or all of the myriad protections of life written into the law?
Patronus: All of which only protect human life, which is why the tortured redefinition is so vital.
Possible: And there’s nothing I can do? My fate’s entirely in their hands?
Patronus: Almost, but not entirely. I’ve been sent in to teach you a few physical techniques to help you survive the ordeal. For example, there’s some twisting and turning maneuvers you can use if they send in some clamps and other devices in an attempt to dismember you while you’re still inside the birth canal. Most of all I want to teach you how not to resist the birth. Even if your mother has decided to kill you, the physical birth process is a mechanism of the ages, designed to deliver you whole and alive, with her instinctive physical cooperation, if not her desire. That’s one of the few things working in our favor.
Possible: Why? It seems it would just be easier for them to destroy me after I’m outside of my mother’s body.
Patronus: True, but that’s where this madhouse gets truly bizarre. As long as any part of you is still inside your mother, they are legally free — in fact obligated — to do all they can to dismember and kill you. But, if by some stroke of fortune, you’re able to get completely outside of your mother, then by a miracle of advanced rhetoric, you instantly cease being a lump of disposable tissue and become a person in full, with all of the rights and protections therein. At that moment, those same medical professionals that were trying to kill you will then have to switch roles and immediately do everything within their powers to preserve you. That’s why I want to train you to do whatever you can to get out as soon as possible — to strive towards the light, no matter what they attempt to do to you along the way.
Possible: Crawling desperately towards the very people trying so hard to kill me seems counter-intuitive, Mr. Patronus.
Patronus: Welcome to Cloud Cuckoo Land, where up is sometimes down, wrong is sometimes right, and what’s true today can’t be relied upon to be true tomorrow.
Possible: Let’s say I do pass whole and alive through this gauntlet. What then?
Patronus: Then they have to protect and preserve you, or they’d be in all sorts of legal trouble.
Possible: And I assume that will include taking me away from my mother.
Patronus: Uh… no. You’ll go on to live with her and be raised by her, unless she decides to do something else with you.
Possible: But, assuming your dire warning is true, she will have just tried to have me killed, and the only reason I would still be alive by that time is that they somehow blundered in their attempts to bring about my horrible death.
Patronus: Yes, but the law presumes that at the instant you become a person, she will no longer want you dead, but will be magically transformed, in that same impossible instant, into a loving and nurturing woman, who only has your best interests in mind.
Possible: That’s insane.
Patronus: You’ll get no argument from me. So, shall we begin your training? We’ll start with some of the things you already know how to do — twisting, rolling, kicking and turning, to deflect or avoid the grip of their instruments.
Possible: No, I don’t think so. I don’t mean to call you a liar to your face, but I don’t believe you. I can’t. No civilized society would allow such a barbaric practice such as you describe.
Patronus: I suppose not. I’m not enough of a philosopher to debate what does and doesn’t constitute a civilization. As I said, I’m basically a self-defense instructor. But I assure you, these are the dangers you’re facing.
Possible: And I repeat that I can’t bring myself to believe that. Even if it were all true, why would I want to survive to enter such a charnel house world? I don’t think I’m interested in your training, Mr. Patronus.
Patronus: Suit yourself.
Possible: You seem easily resigned to my decision.
Patronus: Only because I’ve been doing this for awhile. Too long. A significant minority of my assigned charges make the same decision you just did. Convincing a rational but innocent human being that they’re about to enter such a vastly irrational world is difficult to the point of near impossibility. You don’t yet have the experience to find me credible. As saddened as I am by your choice, I’m not surprised by it.
Possible: I can’t choose otherwise and still be the person I am. I have to believe in a good and rational world. The one you describe defies credulity.
Patronus: I’ll leave now. I have too many other appointments to keep. I hope you turn out to be one of the lucky ones, despite the warning signs. I hope your mother already loves and wants you, or at least allows you to live long enough to give you away to someone who can love and care for you. But if that doesn’t turn out to be the case, if they do try to destroy you when the time comes, then fight. Fight with all of your heart and soul and abilities. Even without my training, you’ve a chance to defy their instruments of cold steel, and confound their sinister designs. I’ll be honest and tell you that chance is slight, but it’s happened before. Good bye, Possible, and good luck.
(Mr. Patronus exits. Curtain.)
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seriously…seriously?
Okay then. At least your framing is somewhat original.
My wife works in the Maternity and Newborn section of her hospital. And she agrees wholeheartedly about the stupidity of this "right to choose" argument. I can't show her this; it will make her even more angry about the "nonviable tissue" idiocy perpetrated by lefty lib judges trying to legislate and legitimize infanticide.
PS: The Hippocratic Oath is not mandatory; it is considered "optional" nowadays. Here's hoping that your doctor(s) thought it important.
Nice one, Bill…sad, but true.
If "it" isn't a human being, what is it then?
It's true. 3 women all equally along in their pregnancies.
The first gives birth prematurely and every doctor and medical professional in the building fights to save the child, and no one doubts for an instant that the being in question is a fragile human life.
The second is murdered at the same time. The murderer is charged with two murders: mother and child. Obviously, even though still inside the womb, the being is considered human enough to charge the murderer with an extra count of murder.
The third walks into a clinic and has a late term abortion.
The only difference between the three is the opinion of the mother, and yet two are given the legal protections of a human and being and last isn't. That's not right. Since when do we deny another human being the rights and protections of law based on the mere opinion of one other human being? Particularly a defenseless human being like a baby.
Nice exposition on the modern disconnect between medicine, law, morality and science. Not to mention the former deep and instinctive emotional and biological bond between a mother and her baby which has been derailed by "choice."
Roe vs. Wade.
Brilliant. Anatomy of a Society Gone Insane.
I am simply in awe, and agree that was brilliant. In fact, that may have been the most poignant and coherently applied argument that I've ever heard on the subject.
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WRONG! A baby born 4 weeks early is not the same thing as a fetus aborted under 6 weeks into pregnancy. Straw man argument, through and through.
Look. I don't like abortion. It makes me deeply, deeply uncomfortable. When, on to separate occasions, girls I knew in high school asked me for advice about an unplanned pregnancy, I told them I could not advise them to get an abortion. It just wasn't something I could carry on my conscience.
What I DID do was steer them towards Planned Parenthood and other organizations that offer low cost contraceptives and STI treatment.
You show me a group against abortion but for easy access to contraceptives and I'll sign up to volunteer my time. But since I have yet to find such a group….
Very well done.
====WRONG! A baby born 4 weeks early is not the same thing as a fetus aborted under 6 weeks into pregnancy.=====
So you know, there's a heartbeat after 3 weeks.
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I dare you to go up to any young couple and tell them that their recently conceived child is just a clump of cells. Psychologically, every human being knows the implications. Physiologically, her body knows it too. Trying to sweep the reality under the rug with excuses doesn't change anything.
Pro-Choice groups try to excuse the negative impacts of abortion by blaming them solely on those in society who believe that abortion is wrong. They like to believe that all of the negative impact comes from the outside stress of knowing that others disapprove and the guilt that brings. But a large part of it comes from knowing inside yourself what you did. Even if you never, ever told anyone that you aborted a baby, you will always know.
Why when a women decide to be pregnan, but, with a a pregnancy she wants, she called it my baby. But when the same woman go through the same experience and she doesn'want it, she called it a blob of tissue. Isn't that convenient?.
So you steered pregnant girls in high school to Planned Parenthood AFTER they were pregnant? How'd those low cost contraceptives and STI treatment work out for them? Oh wait…
As a mother who has also miscarried – losing a baby at six weeks is devestating. All you feel is the loss of the potential what you might call a 'clump of cells' had and that it can never be replaced. The DNA is written already and it is an individual. One that will never be created again.
Two years ago, I miscarried a 5 month old baby. She had died and my doctor was kind enough to allow me (at my own insistance) to miscarry naturally rather than go immediately for surgery. I wanted to bury her tiny body behind my mother's headstone at the cemetary and not have her be considered 'medical waste'. I held her tiny body after it left mine, and then had to call 911. I was taken by ambulance to the hosptial because the bleeding was too severe. The ambulance driver insisted we bring her tiny, perfectly formed body with us to show my doctor. After they got the IV in me, one of the EMTs radio'd to the ER about my condition and ended by saying, "I have a possible 'product of conception." HUH? Don't you have eyes behind those glasses Mr Magoo? You don't see her little feet? Little face? Little fingers there? See 'em? She's still warm for crying out loud!
She's not a possible 'product of conception' you fool. Its a dead human BABY GIRL….
This whole culture of death thing is so mind numbingly disgusting.
This whole culture of death thing is so mind numbingly disgusting.
Numb minds is right. Up is down. Our culture is so conveniently confused. And that's being kind. I'm so sorry for your loss. It was a child that you lost, no question in my heart or mind.
I'll never be able to understand how any woman can simply decide that her baby isn't worth having. I will always remember the first time my wife grabbed my hand and placed it on her stomach while our first baby was doing a quick roll. It was absolutely electric! At that moment, I knew that I would do anything, including giving my own life to protect that baby who wouldn't even enter the world for another six or seven months. And I wasn't the one who was going to nurture that little life inside her for nine months
My heart goes out to you on your loss. But be aware that there are many men out here who are capable of understanding your grief, if only in part.
I thank you and J. Buchanan for your kindness.
My husband was coming home from the city at the time and stuck in traffic, so had to meet me much later in the ER. He felt the loss of our daughter deeply because his heart is big enough to know that his pregnant wife carries his child, however small that baby may be.
The bizarre twisting and turning in the rationalization and new-speak-language of those determined that sexual intercourse and its natural connection to reproduction (and the responsibility for the resulting human life) be severed is astonishing. That those working in the medical field just accept and openly use the new jargon [product of conception, clump of cells, lump of tissue, etc instead of even saying 'fetus' or baby] when it is obviously used soley to dehumanize the baby is beyond comprehension. That term was never used with my older children at all for any reason. Oddly, we fine people heavily for messing with the eggs of eagles and hawks etc, and can somehow make the connection of 'eagle egg' to 'eagle chick' but can't do this with our own children living in our own bodies?
For a species that all too often prides itself on its supposed higher intelligence and scientific knowledge, we sure are a stupid lot.
I honestly believe that 50 years from now, humanity will look back on our abortion policies with the same contempt with which we view slavery (as long as the faithful are persistent in their efforts).
Abortion has been around for thousands and thousands of years, but government sanction of it is quite unique. Except in Rome. Shortly before their own collapse. And in Greece. Shortly before THEIR collapse. And in China? Well, we paradoxically call their policies on birth limitation an atrocious violation of human rights…
Abortion will never be eradicated (just as slavery in some form will always be present), but for a government and society to sanction and advocate it violates man's only true human right, to preserve his own existence (which was well-displayed in this scene).
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Sorry to destroy your illusions, but Planned Parenhood most likely steered your friends into an abortions–they are the nations largest abortion provider. I'm not up on their current statistics, but several years back their ratio of abortions to pre-natal care was about 200 to 1. All you did was pass the buck.
Planned Parenthood holds a vertical monopoly: they control the sex education curricula in most public schools, and control the public health clinics which hand out contraceptives and are not required to report either to legal guardians or law enforcement authorities. When the contraceptives fail, they provide the abortions, or get "bird-dog" fees for referring women to other abortion providers. All accomplished with less oversight than is required for running a dog kennel.
PS: The Hippocratic Oath is not mandatory; it is considered "optional" nowadays. Here's hoping that your doctor(s) thought it important.
OMG! I didn't know that.
They'll probably eliminate it altogether once we're under Socialized healthcare. Can't have stuff like morals and ethics get in the way of "medical procedures."
I carry the weight of two abortions. Regret does not even begin to describe the crushing my soul feels every day. I can't even describe it much in words to you all, but I ask that when you pray, that you stick in a prayer for women who are not strong enough to make the right decision. Believe me, they need them. It is a horrifying, horrible, grotesque procedure that is so easy to get. They make it so easy. I take full responsibility for the murders, yes, I consider my actions to be murder. I can't change the past, but I can try to help others make the right decision in the future, and I can work to show the world what those clinics are really like. I'll leave you with this: when I was in the office, crying and bawling because I knew what I was about to do was so morally wrong, the "counselor" asked me why I was crying. I told her that I wasn't sure and that it scared me and made me sad. I said I thought it was wrong. She told me that my previously held beliefs were the wrong beliefs, and that I only believed that because of what my parents and (religious) society had told me to believe. She spun this yarn and I let her devious words in, to numb my resolve, and I acquiesced. I pray for forgiveness, and like I said, pray for strength for girls like me who are standing at the precipice.
oh, aze! There is forgiveness for you! 27 years ago I had an abortion too, and by the time my child when have been born the weight of guilt was so heavy I could no longer bear it!! I invited Jesus into my heart…and immediately that burden was lifted. I still grieve for my child, but I know I will see him or her again one day. And on that day, God will wipe away all my tears.
Jesus will do this for you too, if you ask. He has already, in fact. You just have to allow Him in.
Agreed.
My wife and I lost twins that way…she still hurts over whether one could have survived after losing the other.
PLEASE, don't blame the techs…they are not doctors, and are required to use such cold and verbose words when describing this situation. The screaming going on in their skulls when they go home after participating in what you described…they have to build a detachment wall, or eventually lose it altogether, like a soldier in combat has to do. Trust me, they know exactly what happened, and even with all the training and ability they command, the instinct to protect life that they carry, they were powerless and couldn't prevent what happened. And they will remember it just as long as you will, along with all the other little horrors of dismembered children in car accidents, murders, exposure deaths, drug overdoses, etc.
This is not the end. She is in the palm of God's hand, and you will see her again.
WRONG! A baby born 4 weeks early is not the same thing as a fetus aborted under 6 weeks into pregnancy. Straw man argument, through and through.
Actually, yours is a straw man argument. No one here said anything about aborting a fetus six weeks into a pregnancy (even though I and most others here would agree that a six-week old fetus has just as much of a right to life as a baby born four weeks early). The subject is late term and more specifically partial birth abortion, an idea so disgusting and heinously illogical (as Mr. Willingham's piece illustrated) that no rational human being, religious or not, should ever support its legality. I can understand, to an extent, the debate and uncertainty when it comes to, say, a 3-, 4-, or 5-week old fetus. But the idea that a woman should be allowed to legally abort a child as long as it hasn't fully exited the birth canal is beyond insane. It's barbaric.
Start that group, ideologue.
When you did the steering, did you mention that you thought that they were on contraceptives at the time, and it wasn't your responsibility that they weren't taking an active measure against it?
But you pointed your "friends" to post-pregnancy contraception, huh.
What a friend you are; you should be just SO proud, helping get the disadvantaged their intervention. And being able to turn around with your sanctimonious, "my hands are clean, see?", while salving your conscience. Sophistry to make yourself feel better, while you straddle the line and make yourself out as being so enlightened, so concerned, while you let foul murder be committed with your silent consent.
Keep lying to your own mind all you want, because I know what you are, and so does everyone else, now.
One of the reasons someone, (I can't bring myself to calling them a 'Doctor'), can do that National Socialist procedure and not eat a gun barrel later that day. Ambiguity helps keep that little conscience quiet and restrained.
So, that "Socialized" healthcare is so much more true than people want to think about.
BINGO! Game set and match.
There are plenty. You just aren't looking.
This is a really bottom line issue for society, If you can justify killing a baby in the making because you don't want it, what can you NOT justify? How about an old person who has become a pain in the butt financially? When BO socializes healthcare, the party is really really over.
It is not a choice, it REALLY is a human being. This is so obvious it confounds the mind to have an argument about it. Is this murder wrong? Well, it depends.
This whole conversation makes me cry. That it is even necessary saddens me beyond words.
Oh, hon, I get that. And I do very much appreciate your trying to soothe my wounded heart.
Its the language. The "possible product of conception".
I know the techs simply have to use the words they are taught to use, but it was very shocking to me, as I lay there grieving her loss fresh again (the first time when the ultrasound showed no heartbeat), seeing my little one so tiny and frail and perfectly formed, and hearing her referred to, not as a child, a baby, and infant, a 'fetus' – but a 'possible product of conception'. I was angry then, that I had to hear my precious baby referred to as something other than the person she obviously was, and angry now, not at them, but a the morons that coined the phrase that dehumanizes tiny people, that made it routine usage even in situations like this.
I know I'll see her again, our wee child, whom we named Helena Moriko.
If I'm not mistaken, didn't our current Commander in Chief vote for a bill while still in the Illinois State Senate that would dictate doctors at a failed abortion do nothing to save the child since it was essentially the intent of the mother to destroy that child? Essentially, they leave the newborn baby alone to die from exposure or starvation.
Somebody please correct me about that if I'm wrong. I would look for it, but I have a full schedule today and need to hop to it. At any rate, if BHO had his way, a large part of this script (i.e. "At that moment, those same medical professionals that were trying to kill you will then have to switch roles and immediately do everything within their powers to preserve you.) would even cease to be relevant, since it's the mother's intention to have the child killed.
How anyone can vote for a bill like that in good conscience boggles my mind. A tree is known by the fruit it bears. Having voted for a bill like that (I believe. Again, correct me if I'm wrong), what does that say about the so-called Messiah and his respect for life?
Yeah.
I step back and hold the ground, even these so many years later, because the other parts of my family need Dad standing firm against the goblins; and for the most part, as far as they see, that's what they see.
But when I read yours yesterday; I was back in that day in 1984, my wife in a panic, and me holding the ground, because she needed me to.
Man, this is hard to write about.
Faith, friend. All of this is temporary.
No, you're not wrong.
Actually, what he did was killed a bill that would have forced doctors to care for children born despite attempted abortions. A nurse at a hospital became distraut when she found out that these children were being left uncared for in a linen closet so their cries would not bother anybody, and went to the state legislature to try to change the law so that these children at least received some care. Obama ensured that the bill didn't pass. On a side note, how could somebody hear of children survivng abortion and not have it cause them to re-think their pro-abortion beliefs?
You're right, here's a link (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti... ) from during the campaign.
What it says about Obama while campaigning is he'll be just firm enough in statements to pick up votes from those who hope he has the same position, while being vague enough for lots of people to assume he does. Obama when elected though has consistently gone between giving the most liberal groups everything they want to just enough they'll be quiet and keep voting for him.
It also says the above wonderful piece is complete fiction. In Obamaland, the right to choose matters most, the right to choose to live means nothing.
Additional: Expect a real push to further solidify abortion "rights," maybe even an Amendment. Science is catching up. We're even beyond the concept of an artificial womb, now that we're growing replacement organs in labs a real uterus, that could sustain life until "born," seems possible if not inevitable. We could even develop a "uterine surface" that a placenta could attach to, and procedures to do an emergency transfer from the mother to a close-enough. And where will the debate be then?
Oh Geez Bill. The comics sites are going to kill you for this one. You have large grapefruits my friend.
It says that there is no respect for life and his votes in the Illinois senate are the record to prove it. Check out Jill Stanek. A nurse who has held more than one baby thrown away after a 'botched' abortion.
The details and horrific nature of partial birth abortion are so evil they defy description. And Mr. Obama worked hard to preserve it and his wife and REV Wright sat on the hospital board that inplements it and that continues to this day. Dr.s are PROHIBITED from giving medical assistance to 'the product of a botched late birth abortion'. His stance on this alone disqualifies him in my personal view, not to mention all his other policies coming at us faster than 'the proverbial' hitting the fan.
Great play. I'm new to this blog, but I've suspected you must be at least semi-pro-life after reading a thinly veiled remark by Frau Totenkinder a while back. It's refreshing to see a member of the media (hey, comics count too) who has really thought this through. And speaks up.
No, they won't, or they shouldn't. He's completely entitled to his opinion.
I agree. I had a miscarriage at 12 weeks, and another at 17 weeks, carrying twins. I was alone with a 1 1/2 y old and a 3 y old, and delivered them myself. If you go through that, and can't tell it's a d@mn baby, then you are ignorant, or evil.Very well written, Mr. Willingham, and equally disturbing.
aze,
God bless you for your courage in sharing your story.
Fredrica Matthews-Greene puts it well when she says that women "choose" abortions the same way a trapped animal "chooses" to gnaw off its trapped foot.
Planned Parenthood presents itself as a "neutral" on the issue of abortion, and then directs desperate women to see abortion as the only available option.
There are many ministries for women to find healing from their abortions: Project Rachel, Healing Hearts are two with which I'm familiar.
Keep on fighting the good fight.
Exceptionally well-written.
Then again, so was "Bambi," also based around "humanizing" it's main character and thus demonizing actual humans (hunters, in that case) terribly in the process.
My wife miscarried her first preganancy, but the natural process wasn't working. She had to go for the D & C. Her OB did the procedure, and he had an excellent bedside manner. After the procedure, though, someone came in to remove our child. The doctor looked at my wife, looked at the "clump of tissue" and said almost inaudibly, "Label it product of conception." I appreciated his effort not to let us hear that, but we heard it anyway. And that hurt almost as much as our child's death.
So you know, same goes for a calf, and they have the same amount of neurological material at this time as a human fetus.
I wonder if any kids got a hold of the Elementals Sex Special comic that Bill wrote? You know the one where Fathom has sex with a Dolphin shapeshifter. I wonder if Bill's early writings inspired any unwanted pregnancies?
This seems to be a self aggrandizing attempt by a one time smut peddler. Interesting.
I'm not pro-abortion, but I'm certainly pro-responsibility.
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