{"id":61571,"date":"2016-06-16T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=61571"},"modified":"2016-06-16T11:25:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T18:25:51","slug":"quick-apology-circumcision-and-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/quick-apology-circumcision-and-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Apology: Circumcision and Abortion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my blogging hiatus, one of my friends posted the following meme:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61573\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Circumcision.jpg\" alt=\"Circumcision\" width=\"541\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Circumcision.jpg 541w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Circumcision-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I first saw this meme I sat there for a few minutes trying to work out what argument it was actually making. It&#8217;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&#8217;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?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a false equivalency is being made here.\u00a0The number of babies who die because of circumcision is <em>somewhat<\/em> lower than those who die from abortion and, while some advantages to being circumcised may be argued, the unborn <em>typically<\/em> don&#8217;t report too many health benefits following the abortion procedure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my blogging hiatus, one of my friends posted the following meme: When I first saw this meme I sat there for a few minutes trying to work out what argument it was actually making. It&#8217;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&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2459,2969,1242,859,3707],"class_list":["post-61571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-circumcision","tag-featured","tag-meme","tag-pain","tag-twelve-weeks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/circumcision.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61615,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61571\/revisions\/61615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}