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A MSNBC personality, the birth of Kate and William’s first child, and the need to exploit every good story to advance the abortion agenda

Jul 23, 2013

By Dave Andrusko

Prince William, Duchess Kate, and their first baby

Prince William, Duchess Kate, and their first baby

Earlier today we posted a fine story by Alissa Tabirian written for CNSNews.com (MSNBC: Royal Baby? Parents’ ‘Feelings’ Say When Life Begins, ‘Not Science’). There were a few other considerations raised by the topic of Tabirian’s story—another tiresome, logic-free rant by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry that I’d like to address at the end of the day.

To be fair, it would asking too much of Harris-Perry to resist the temptation to attempt to colonize the birth of the first baby born to Prince William and Duchess Kate. Not every birth is a “fairy tale,” she scolded/hectored/lectured her audience, and she was off to the races.

So naturally—inescapable—she offers as a contrast examples of the toughest scenarios to prove to us “that an unwanted pregnancy can be biologically the same as a wanted one” but “the experience can be entirely different.”

Then in one of those famous Harris-Perry head-scratching leaps that you don’t see coming, she transitions to ask the rhetorical question, “When does life begin?” She immediately answers her own question:

“I submit the answer depends an awful lot on the feeling of the parents, a powerful feeling, but not science. The problem is that many of our policymakers want to be [making] sweeping laws on these feelings.”

Huh? Science tells us nothing about when life begins? It’s all “feelings,” so your feelings, my feelings, policymakers’ feelings, Harris-Perry’s feelings, a gerbil’s feelings all carry equal weight and all are equally irrelevant to public policy?

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Of course, she’s talking about Texas’s HB 2 and there is a question at issue was an altogether different one. It was a question science has answered but which was run over by a freight train of emotion and attempts to intimidate: the simple fact the unborn child can feel pain by no later than 20 weeks.

Harris-Perry would rather ignore the question on the table by implying it’s all about something else (when life begins) and then thoroughly muck up the answer.

I would, too, if the real question is whether I can live with myself if I am so heartless that I would allow a pain-capable unborn child to be torn to smithereens.

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Categories: Media Bias