Posted on 12/13/2006 11:31:05 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
I trace the beginning of my evolution from pro-choice to pro-life to a comment I heard on the radio a decade or so ago. It might have been Rush Limbaugh who made the point that many of the people moved to tears at the thought of the killing of baby seals are the same ones who "celebrate" a woman's right to have an abortion.
Something clicked. What kind of moral compass is that?
I think back to that moment when I hear pro-choice advocates such as Julia Roberts express their tender concerns for various members of the animal kingdom. A good example came on this morning's Good Morning America. Diane Sawyer interviewed Roberts regarding her role in the movie version of Charlotte's Web, in which Roberts provides the voice of the eponymous spider. Sawyer asked Roberts whether as a result of being in the movie she now likes spiders:
Roberts: "I kill them less now."
Sawyer: "Because of the solidarity?"
Roberts:
"It kind of is. You think, that’s a person, or somebody’s Mom or somebody’s best pal.”
So how about it, Julia? When you consider an unborn baby, do you think "that's a person," too, or is a baby less human to you than a spider? If you spare the spider's life, how about the baby's? Why shouldn't babies have the same right as spiders to be somebody's Mom or best pal?
Big H/T to Rich Noyes and MRC for firming up the transcript of Roberts' remarks.
View video of Roberts 'it's a person' remark here.
Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net
Re-ping to Today show list. I've been able to confirm and provide a video link to Roberts saying she tries to avoid killing spiders because "it's a person."
We must never kill a spider, we must always love and guide her and invite her in the nursery to play.
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Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up. I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me. I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away. But I hadn't no confidence. You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider. Huck Finn and btw, the previous was Rual Daul
A mind is a terrible thing to lose.
"Rual Daul"
It took me a minute to puzzle that one out. Do you mean the writer Roald Dahl?
The hell you say.
"Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful".
Perhaps she'll adopt a cute little brown recluse or two. She wouldn't even have to go to Africa to pick them up.
Julia's new 'love':
A spider is a person and a fetus isn't? Kind of says it all about Julia's intellectual abilities.
The world has gone mad.
Teenage girls who abort their babies are liberating themselves. Teenage boys who mess around with congressmen are victims. Spiders are people. Bush is hitler. There shall be no Christ in Christmas. And the Dixie Chicks are the only ones brave enough to defend the 1st Amemdment!
Such is life in the bizzaro world of Hollyweird where celebs drive on the wrong side of the road.
*snickerin*
That reminds me back in the 70's when the libs called our returning soldiers from Vietnam "baby-killers". When in fact THEY were the baby-killers. Ms. Roberts, you and your ilk are an abomination.
The last time I saw a face like Julia's, it had a hook in its mouth.
That spider is gonna be a mama to hundreds of babies real soon. Would Julia agree that the spider has the right to choose too?
What happen to, "I think there for I am"?
Waht do you expect from a woman whos claim to fame is playing a whore?
I don't kill spiders, but not because I think they're "people." Yee-Gawds, what a lame-brain this woman is!
I keep spiders around (especially the Daddy Long Legs) because they keep my house fly-free. :)
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