Posted on June 30,
2016
We’re Evil! Get It?
Pro-abortion humor is lacking in irony
by
Daniel
Clark
San Diego abortionist Robert Santella
decided to have some fun with a young protestor named Zephaniah Mel outside his
clinic one day, so he walked up and breathed directly into Mel’s face while growling
demonically, with just inches between the two.
“Stinky breath,” he explained, while holding out a cup of coffee for
Mel’s camera phone to see. Then, he
reached out with a pair of scissors in his other hand, as if he were
threatening to stab Mel in the neck with them.
With Santella continuing to speak in a
cartoonish demonic voice, the rest of the conversation went like this:
MEL: “Wow!
That’s what you do to babies, huh?”
SANTELLA: “Yeah, I love it!”
MEL:
“You love it, huh.”
SANTELLA: “Yeah, I do!”
MEL: “Okay. I
hope that you come to Christ, sir.”
SANTELLA: “Oh, I never go to Christ. No, I don’t go to Christ. I don’t listen to Christ.”
MEL: “You will have a darkened heart, sir.”
SANTELLA: “I do have a darkened heart. Yeah, I do very, very much so.”
It’s apparent from Mel’s reaction to the situation
that he did not think Santella would actually stab
him. This was clearly an example of
what, from an abortionist’s point-of-view, suffices for humor. If you don’t find it funny, perhaps that’s
because there’s no punch line.
Santella
spoke in a sarcastic tone, which would naturally lead one to believe he meant
the exact opposite of what he was saying.
To the contrary, we know that he was taking himself very literally. He really does kill babies in a violent
manner as he pretended to do to Mel.
Obviously, he truly doesn’t listen to Christ, and he makes it very easy
to believe he has a darkened heart. Even
his confession to having stinky breath is eminently credible. The big joke, then, is that Sentella is exactly what pro-lifers accuse him of being,
but that they’re powerless to do anything about it. Tee-hee.
You may recall a similar demonstration three years ago
in Texas, where the legislature was debating those supposedly unduly
burdensome abortion clinic regulations.
Outside the state capitol, a woman was telling a crowd about the tragic
results of her own abortion, when pro-abortion activists drowned her out with
apparently spontaneous chants of “Hail Satan!
Hail Satan!” That's a pretty curious
outburst of faux sarcasm, considering that the woman had not accused them of
Satanism. It was without provocation
that they began praising the Prince of Darkness, angrily sticking out their tongues
for the cameras, and making Tasmanian devil noises.
What they were protesting was a proposal to hold the
clinics to the same health and safety standards as if they were legitimate
medical facilities. These demonstrators
were determined to maximize the frequency of abortion, even at the expense of
the safety of the women they purported to 
represent. That’s a morally indefensible position, so
rather than defend it, they became defiant.
Yes, they’re evil, so what of it?
Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic
director who is now an active opponent of abortion, says that the people at her
clinic had joked in much this same way.
Johnson explains that the freezer where the fetal remains were stored was
nicknamed “The Nursery” by clinic employees.
She recalls that when a pro-life crisis pregnancy center moved in next
door, they all (herself included) joked about welcoming their new neighbors by
sending them a box of baby-shaped cookies covered with red icing. So, they were aware that the contents of the
freezer were babies, whose killing they knew would upset those conservative
Christian squares. Get it?
At pro-abortion demonstrations, you’ll often see
people waving signs that say things like “Abort Sarah Palin,” or “Abort
George W. Bush” – slogans that unambiguously convey the activists’
understanding that abortion is a fatal act of violence committed against a
fellow human being. Not that there’s
anything wrong with that.
It is said that in order for comedy to succeed, it
must contain an element of truth. It
should be parenthetically added that truth only contributes to humor when it
morally reinforces the joke-teller's point-of-view. If you are going to joke about the killing of
babies, then the baby killers must be the objects of derision. If, on the other hand, your idea of comedy is
to say, “Get me; I’m killing babies – bwwah-hah-hah-hah,”
you’re not likely to find many people laughing along with you.
… Except, perhaps, for five current justices of the
Supreme Court, that is.
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