I’m not sure if the “God is my abortionist” defense would work in the American Christian Taliban world of the future. That’s not stopping baby factory & reality TV star, Michelle Duggar, from using it.
Michelle Duggar is a 45-year-old mother of 19 children – the last one, Josie, born prematurely just two years ago, almost killing both mother and daughter – so medically speaking, a 20th pregnancy should’ve gone awesome. Except it didn’t, so just assume one of her children angered God by bringing a Harry Potter book into their compound which may sound terrible to say about a woman who just suffered a miscarriage except it’s no more crazy than her statement to People:
The Lord is the giver of life and he can choose when that life is ready to go on and be with Him.
“Sometimes God kills babies, and that’s okay.” That’s what Michelle Duggar just said. In 2011, if you haven’t figured out that sometimes shit just happens without the aid of supernatural forces, you might as well live in a cave and stir a pig’s entrails with a stick to divine the weather because clearly modern society has nothing to offer you with all it’s logic and reason. Or Satan’s sloppy, loose concubines if I’m free to speak your language.
This was both heartless and crude.
No, heartless and crude would be to ask her for proof that she didn’t cause this.
People like Mrs. Duggans could be charged with murder. So, I agree with you 100% that the American Christian Taliban future envisioned by Republicans is heartless and crude.
Ark. Stat. Ann. § 5-1-102(13) defines “person,” as used in § 5-10-101 through § 5-10-105, to include an unborn child in utero at any stage of development. “Unborn child” is defined as a living fetus of 12 weeks or greater gestation.
have to agree with occam on this one…politicizing a woman’s miscarriage is low
Indeed. I don’t imagine Republicans really though through the downstream implications of giving full person hood to fetuses.