Pro-lifers are Idiots. End of story

I have a friend working as a broker in Hong Kong who forwards me funny e-mails and all that other stuff that clogs up my inbox on a daily basis. A lot of it is hilarious, but sometimes it's stuff I've seen a million times before.

I got one yesterday that I must have read a hundred times. It was this thinly veiled pro-life propaganda that people vomit out onto the Internet to scar impressionable young minds. Take a look.

Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded,and she had syphilis, would you recommend she have an abortion?

Read the next question before looking at the answer for this one.

Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.Here are the facts about the three leading candidates.

Candidate A - Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.He's had two Mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B - He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C - He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

Which of these candidates would be your choice?

Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer.









Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolf Hitler.

And, by the way, the answer to the abortion question: If you said yes, you just killed Beethoven.
Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

The moral of the story is that even if a mother cannot care for her child, that doesn't mean that the child can't go on to become great. Now this is flawed for two reasons. The first, of course, is that pro-lifers don't have morals as the sane world understands them. Pro-lifers have this weird quasi-morality that was lifted wholesale from that perrenial bestseller the Bible. The problem with this is that the moral and ethical belief system of an individual should be founded on personal experience and judgement, and not on a millenia old text.

The second, and more pertinent, problem is that this example is a one-off. I have no doubt that the vast, vast majority of babies born to a syphilis-ridden mother with multiple disabled kids would end up having a shitty life. Furthermore, the majority of babies born to a crack-whore teenage girl would probably end up dying in a ditch. Is it really worth all those dead babies in the gutter on the off-chance that one of them might turn out to have a knack for making some nice music?

As I've been saying for years, and as comedians and social commentators have repeated ad nauseum, if these pro-life freaks really care so much for kids, why don't they just go out and adopt an unwanted child and shut up? Surely this would be far more productive than standing in front of clinics waving placards and frothing at the mouth. I understand that we all need a hobby, but come on. Take up birdwatching.