Posted on 09/13/2018 6:47:39 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Sarah Silverman — a comedian known for her outlandish and offensive statements — recently claimed that she knows more science than, well, science itself. In an episode of Hulu’s “I Love You, America,” Silverman claimed: “We’re all human, except for fetuses, according to science.”
There’s just one problem with that: According to science, fetuses are very human indeed — from their earliest moments.
According to the science of embryology:
“Human life begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoon) unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marked the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.” “A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).”
Keith L. Moore, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003. pp. 16, 2.
“In that fraction of a second when the chromosomes form pairs, the sex of the new child will be determined, hereditary characteristics received from each parent will be set, and a new life will have begun.”
Kaluger, G., and Kaluger, M., Human Development: The Span of Life, page 28-29, The C.V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1974.
Notably, a zygote and an embryo are at even earlier stages of life than a fetus is. And yet science clearly knows that each person’s humanity starts with his or her fertilization — not at birth.
In this episode, Silverman was having a conversation with infamous abortionist, Willie Parker, about how pro-life advocates are supposedly incorrect. Parker recently made the news for “helping” novelist Jodie Picoult “understand” that working to limit abortion among Black women is actually racist. You have to read it to believe it:
Dr. Willie Parker…helped Picoult understand what many might consider a shocking belief…: that abortion foes do what they do to “make America white again.”
“When you go into the South the one thing they do is put up billboards about black babies. They say, ‘This could be the next Obama.’ They are pro-life billboards trying to encourage black women to not have abortions,” says Picoult, a resident of New Hampshire.
“[Parker] pieced this together. The only person who can have a white baby is a white woman. The only way to make more white people is to have more white babies. If you can appeal to black women and get them to be anti-abortion, you are going to restrict abortion for black women but more importantly you will also restrict abortion for white women. So you are getting what you want, more white babies.”
Combine Parker’s illogical and inexplicable assertions with Silverman’s failure to rely on actual scientific fact, and you have a perfect example of what the abortion movement in America has become: a frantic attempt to preserve injustice at all costs.
Too bad Sarah Silverman’s mother didnt feel the same way, this could have all been prevented had her mamma gone to a Planned Parenthood clinic I would have driven her there myself
Science used to say the earth was the center of the solar system
Praise science! From whom all blessings flow.
Twit.
She IS aware that phrenology was considered valid science almost 100 years ago... right?
Naaah - let’s not dissuade her from her blind faith.
Science says there are actual physical and genetic differences between the races and sexes too - shhhh.
Sarah, life is the most precious gift any of us will ever have, and the most precious of lives any of us are part of are those we are privileged to play a role in bringing into the world. I hope you will somehow experience this privilege, in some way.
Someone should share with Stupid Silverman the proof that these ‘not humans’ can learn by the twentieth week in their gestational life in the water world. Low IQ females like Sara are so easily herded with sincere lies ... so much so that truth cannot register in their feeble brains.
Someone so preoccupied with being able to kill others is a deranged sicko.
The left are FULL of self-hatred.
The only thing Silverman ever paid attention to was her, her image in the mirror, her wants and desires, her hand in her.....
She’s a filthy, dumb, front hole.
Interesting.
Fetuses are a subset of we of which is humans
But the subset that is fetuses is not part of the set that is humans.
Seems like a Mobius loop of logic.
Did she get that from Bill Nye the #FakeScience guy?
Did the mirror crack?
Silverman is just being smart-alecky here. She knows darned well that ‘science’ says no such thing. She’s just trying to provoke/irritate pro-lifers. She pretty much admits that she’s a pothead with mental problems. That’s her ‘act.’
Silverman is a monster possessed by a demon.
She’s always been a sicko.
Nasty, loud-mouth women with no degrees in a scientific field are always my first choice for scientific facts. /s
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