Looney
'Toons
You know when Conservatives started blowing up the abortion
issue by insisting that "das fetal heartbeat ist uber alles"?
Why
didn't anyone just dick-slap them and remind them that the
heart is just a biological water-pump and that medical science
already has replacement versions that can keep a person alive
when the original conks out. (Ask Dick Cheney
about
how well they work, if he can ever be considered "alive",
that is.)
Hell, surgeons have been transplanting replacement hearts
into newborns for over 25 years, which should be proof enough
that the fetal heartbeat is not a god-given gift. The heart
is just another cog in the machiney.
More important than the heart is the brain which, in a fetus,
doesn't come online to any great significance until the
28th week of gestation. It isn't until then that the hind-brain
is mature enough to give commands like "breathe" and
"suckle". Rather important stuff, wouldn't you
say?
And until brains can be transplanted the GOP will just have
to work with the wind-up versions until something more efficient
and rational is available.
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As
for that final panel....
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Lefty
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