Sometimes far-left zealots say things so inane that you hope, indeed you assume, they’re just pulling your leg. That no one can be this batty unless it’s a tactic, maybe to get right wing commentators to post replies? Hmmmm.
Regardless of the motive, it’s pretty hard to top the absurdity of Cenk Uyger’s take on the proposed Ohio law that would outlaw abortions the moment the fetus’ heartbeat can be detected, roughly five-six weeks in at 60-90 bpm. First off, Dr. Cenk, in letting science take a back seat to ideology, cleverly misleads the viewer, claiming that the heartbeat can be heard as early as “eighteen days” which my math says is a little over two weeks, but he surely meant eighteen days after conception which translates into around a five week pregnancy as due date is calculated ahead 40 weeks from the start of the last period.
Of course, he never clarified that. After all, eighteen days sounds so much sooner than five weeks doesn’t it? Details, details.
He then claims that it is so early that “many women have no idea they’re even pregnant.” Now I’m no OBGYN but I can tell you that my wife knew she was pregnant within a week or two; her sudden craving for Twizzlers gave it away well before our babies’ hearts started fluttering.
Anyway, Uygur goes on to comment about an upcoming bit of testimony when a woman nine weeks pregnant (or a mere 32 days in Cenk-math) will actually undergo an ultrasound so lawmakers may hear the heartbeat in a symbolic testimonial. Apparently Uyger, who was fortunate to be very much un-aborted at birth, finds this amusing.
“By all accounts, the fetus will be the youngest ever to testify. That’s because he or she is not really testifying, because he or she is not really a person yet. In fact, at that point, we don’t even know whether he or she is a he or she. You know what else hasn’t formed at that point? Their mouth. Making it a little hard to testify.”
Now, despite his expert opinion that a nine-week old fetus is “not a person” because it doesn’t have a mouth, I kind of think it is. (And there are times when I wish my kids had no mouths but I digress). And that’s the point isn’t it? I think it is a person, he thinks not. Even if I’m wrong, and they aren’t people, treating them as humans still means the fetuses eventually do become people and live. If he’s wrong, and they are human, then treating them as cells to be biopsied means people are being mass-murdered. Although I would like to ask Cenk if it isn’t a person, what is it then? A howler monkey? An iguana? A salmon?
See, that’s one thing I do know. Whether you believe that a nine-week old is a person or not, you know damn well that if left to run its course, it will be one. And not just any person but a unique individual. The blueprints are already being read and built. And that’s why I have to disagree with him. Because when speechless fetal Cenk was nine-weeks old, there was no shot he was turning into anything but baby Cenk and no one else. I guess an adult Cenk with no mouth would be just too much to ask!
I do find it interesting that in order to be pro-abortion, you first have to be here to voice your verdict of one’s humanness. This means you made it through the abortion gauntlet intact. Millions of other babies are not so fortunate. (One wonders how many non-persons who were on their ways to becoming the next Beethoven, Einstein and Michelangelo were tossed into the trash bin in the process. We will never know.)
Showing his wit knows no bounds Uygur actually slips in a pretty bizarre assumption:
“Now, we reached out to the fetus to see if he or she wanted to come on the show, but it did not say anything, because it does not have a mouth. But if it could talk, I’m pretty sure it would say, could you please get out of my mother’s uterus.”
Did he really say that? Really?
Truly side-splitting. Well, you have to be alive to make jokes. Call me a “goofball Republican” but my gut tells me that if given the choice of floating in the womb and then being born to live a life, or being ripped apart and sucked out in sections by a vacuum, even a nine-week-old probably wouldn’t have to think too hard about where to come down on the issue. Survival instinct tends to take priority over the debate about a woman’s uterine domain … even for creatures without mouths.
Look, I know that I will never be faced with the prospect of being a single mother, or having to carry a child from rape or incest and it is hard for me, a male who chose to have a family, to comment with absolute certitude on such an issue. But do I know in my gut that there was never a time from conception on when I wasn’t either me, or a me-in-the-making. I would respect the Cenk Uygurs of the world more if they would drop the “not a person” argument and just tell it straight: yeah it’s a baby, but so what? His/her birth is unwanted, is an inconvenience, unaffordable, and just because I screwed up once, I shouldn’t have to take care of this thing and sacrifice my future…so rip it out. Brutal, but honest. I mean, come on, you have to be pretty cold to listen to an ultrasound of a beating heart and conclude this is anything but a little person.
I could be wrong. But if Cenk Uygur represents the mentality of those in favor of abortion on demand, then I am certainly correct to at least question whether this is an issue over which I would be willing to destroy millions of fetuses on the convenient assumption they’re not babies–only to find myself siding with a man like him in the bargain.
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