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    Filed at 1:19 am under by dcobranchi

    One of the stranger “arguments” against abortion (by a group of teachers):

    Abortion is the primary factor causing America’s economic recession, said Pawson. America is suffering the consequences for killing fifty-million people who are supposed to be among us today as teachers, producers, consumers, taxpayers, leaders, inventors, and problem-solvers. It’s no surprise that a nation which slaughters nearly twenty percent of its future customers, investors, and entrepreneurs also kills its own economy. Wrong moral choices have negative consequences. Evil acts generate their own punishment.

    Abortion has led to the destruction of fifty-million students and simultaneously eliminated hundreds of thousands of teaching careers and education-related jobs. Surely, some of those dead students were the ones God sent to cure AIDS, end world-hunger, and create clean-energy technologies, said Pawson

    UPDATE: On second thought, it appears that PLEAS consists of maybe 6 people.

    17 Responses to “THOSE REALLY STRANGE (ANTI-CHOICE) TEACHERS”


    Comment by
    COD
    June 11th, 2009
    at 8:40 am

    That’s an old argument – that we may have aborted the next Einstein, etc.


    Comment by
    Nance Confer
    June 11th, 2009
    at 8:59 am

    “Make the NEA Abortion Neutral” is one of their slogans.

    Supporting choice, if that’s the NEA’s position, IS the neutral position.

    Asshats.

    Nance


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    June 11th, 2009
    at 8:59 am

    What, nothing about spilling seed yet?


    Comment by
    dcobranchi
    June 11th, 2009
    at 9:38 am

    I like the bit about how it’s a jobs issue.


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    June 11th, 2009
    at 10:00 am

    Literal fundamentalism is so not-intelligently designed. An omnipotent god created all the characters and plotted out the whole story including the stupid humans who keep screwing it up? Then either that story is to blame for everything, or that story can’t be true.


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    June 11th, 2009
    at 10:05 am

    Now THIS is what I would call “pro-life” and intelligent design, in education politics:

    “The ability to make wise, educated decisions is essential to living a successful and fulfilled life.”


    Comment by
    Rob
    June 11th, 2009
    at 10:14 am

    “Wrong moral choices have negative consequences. Evil acts generate their own punishment.”

    I might take some comfort from my faith-based mindset that tells me eventually, the price of perfect justice is paid. But that statement sure ain’t always true here on earth.


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    June 11th, 2009
    at 11:07 am

    Rob, would you and I agree on author Jane Smiley’s take? Goodbye Cruel World

    “. . .we are choosing between two worlds — the world of ignorance, fear, manipulation, and cruelty, and the world of rational investigation, weighing of options, and planning. . . It is a world that understands the temptations of human nature and attempts to deal with them rationally and systematically.


    Comment by
    dcobranchi
    June 11th, 2009
    at 11:20 am

    JJ–

    The Right has chosen not to live in our reality but, instead, an alternate one.

    I don’t believe there is any way to bridge that gap.


    Comment by
    COD
    June 11th, 2009
    at 11:36 am

    re: jobs issue: I guess they don’t understand that 40 or 50 million more people competing for their jobs would push pay rates down.


    Comment by
    Rob
    June 11th, 2009
    at 12:58 pm

    It’s an interesting statement: John McCain is “never at peace”. That’s a multi-leveled word. I don’t hate anyone. I’m perfectly able take satisfaction and enjoyment in my life – and do so often. So in that way, I’m at peace. However, in the world there will always be bad guys who seek to do us harm. Whether the felon I helped put behind bars who will get out in a few years and might come looking for payback, or rival hegemons working the geopolitical game to expand their interests at the cost of mine. So from that standpoint, no, I do not spend a single conscious second ‘without a care in the world’. You could say I’ll never be at peace.

    I agree completely that the color of the sky is different in your guys’ world than in mine. I’m with Daryl – you can’t bridge the gap. All you can do is decide to switch sides. I can’t explain how Daryl went from libertarian to liberal, and how I went from big D democrat to staunch right, and both of us end up claiming we’ve grown closer to the truth.

    I just come here to learn more about what makes your sky the color it is, and to explain a little about mine.


    Comment by
    Suze
    June 11th, 2009
    at 2:35 pm

    JJ said:

    “Now THIS is what I would call “pro-life” and intelligent design, in education politics […]”

    Have you viewed this course? If so, I would love to hear your assessment of it. It’s one I’ve been eying, and the price is right, right now.


    Comment by
    JJ
    June 11th, 2009
    at 4:56 pm

    No but it was a major part of my graduate studies and career field, and my dad’s as management/ business ethics professor. So when I saw the course description pop up on sale today (yes, tempting!) I took a close look. It sounds like good coverage to me and I’ve never gotten a dud from TC (except one Arab lady doing algebra who left me and the kids a little nonplussed.).)


    Comment by
    JJ
    June 11th, 2009
    at 5:07 pm

    To Rob and Daryl, at least we all agree there IS a sky??


    Comment by
    dcobranchi
    June 11th, 2009
    at 5:49 pm

    In my reality the sky is blue because N2 molecules in the atmosphere cause Rayleigh scatter dispersing the blue wavelengths more than the red. Simple physics.

    In the Right’s “reality,” the sky is green with orange polka pots because God likes it that way.

    Colbert was right: Reality has a well-known liberal bias.


    Comment by
    Lisa G.
    June 12th, 2009
    at 3:58 am

    I really don’t see how being teachers makes them more qualified to make family-planning decisions for me than I am.

    Oh yeah, that’s because NO ONE is more qualified to make decisions about my life than I am.


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    June 12th, 2009
    at 7:30 pm

    Speaking of us not speaking the same language, guess what NPR is talking about this week:

    Language of Abortion

    Abortion Terminology