Quick Apology: Doing whatever you want with your body?

Today’s post is a follow-up to the one last Thursday. In response to my comments about the differences between circumcision and abortion, a friend-of-a-friend offered a reply. However, rather than responding to what I said, he simply trotted out a favourite slogan of the pro-choice moment. Here was our exchange:

Bodies

“My body, my choice” is one of the favourite sayings of those who favour the continued legal access to abortion. However, the statement is patently false and I would suggest that nobody really believes it.

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Music Monday: Ready To Be Myself

Today, Today is the day
I’m waking up to say
I’m tired of the way
The way that I change
I rearrange
Myself to be
Someone that everybody loves
So I become someone I’m not

Who am I gonna be
When nobody’s watching me
I want to be real
What am I gonna do
To live what I know is true?
I let go
Oh I’ve been someone else
God, I’m ready to be myself

Now, now is the time
To open up my eyes
And see what I will find
I find I made up my mind
To be someone that everybody loved
So I became someone I’m not

I want to be something more
Than a man who needs to be adored
It shouldn’t matter to me
With every breath that I have left
I wanna breath it out hoping that
He says “you’ve done well”

Spiffy Hats

Today we have the Bishop from the Eparchy of Phoenix coming to Seattle to ordain Deacon Michael and that reminded me that in the different rites of the Catholic Church, the bishops have different styles of hats they wear. Different, but all extremely spiffy…

SpiffyHats

Quick Apology: Circumcision and Abortion?

During my blogging hiatus, one of my friends posted the following meme:

Circumcision

When I first saw this meme I sat there for a few minutes trying to work out what argument it was actually making. It’s trying to point out what it perceives as an inconsistency, but what solution is being implied here? Is the meme-maker saying that circumcision shouldn’t happen because of potential pain experienced by the baby? Or is the argument being made that babies should be aborted, regardless of whether or not they suffer pain during the process?

Of course, a false equivalency is being made here. The number of babies who die because of circumcision is somewhat lower than those who die from abortion and, while some advantages to being circumcised may be argued, the unborn typically don’t report too many health benefits following the abortion procedure…

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