Double Flee A

That MN physicians for life flyer is back again. I'm doing something about it this time.

hopelessly subjective, circular arguments called

EDUCATIONAL FACTS FROM MN PHYSICIANS FOR LIFE

which I am sick of

“1. Every person who has had an abortion, always has been and always will be a priceless and precious person, as is everyone else.”

How sweet. If we’re all so precious why bring it up? You brazenly imply there are people out there who don’t hold human life to be remotely valuable, which is ludicrous. Keep your bible out of my face and stop trying to pass this turkey off at my hospital. Maybe the person reading this will have a change of heart, more likely though, they’ll have a turn of stomach.

“2. The abortion issue is not necessarily a religious issue. An atheist and an evolutionist might desire the protection of human life, out of respect for the evolutionary process which has brought human life to the complex stage that we are at now.”

For the second time, you have estimated the intelligence of your reader to be zero. “An evolutionist might desire...” News flash: if there were no institutions ramming a paternalistic, imaginary egomaniac called god down people’s throats from the moment they were born, you wouldn’t call people atheists or evolutionists. They’d just be called realistic. And “MIGHT”? You do a disservice to all jackasses. Nice try, though. It’s important when your argument is as mawkish and simpering as yours is to make your own opinions look more mainstream than they are, and therefore to marginalize your opponent whenever possible. Keep your religious tracts out of my hospital, “Dr. Paul Dickinson M.D. J.D.”, and stop calling them educational. Your flyers are about persuasion and I come here to work, not be preached to.

Predictably, the flyer goes on to “educate” one about human life beginning at conception. People go to the doctor because doctors are objective problem solvers, and if these things have the effect on anyone I am afraid they will, we’re going to have a lot of patients running around scared that our doctors are into a bunch of hocus-pocus.


That's what I printed off some copies of. There are boldface and type size distinctions that don't come through, but I think I get the point across. Even if the person I want to read never does, someone picking it up will have a giggle and consider that their world is a little more balanced than they did before.

posted by dale @ 6:39 PM