Big D   The anti-abortion promoters claim egg rights and deny human rights.   The forced-motherhood advocates accord absolute human rights to fertilized eggs, rights that they claim must be honored at the cost of denying rights to the women in whose wombs these cell reside.   They claim that the egg has more legal rights than the woman.   They say we should have government laws forcing every pregnant women to nurture the development of that cell in her womb until it has developed into a full-grown living, breathing, human baby.   They claim to do otherwise is an act of murder that should be severely punished by government agents.

T.L.C.   But the fertilized egg is only one cell, and that one cell is smaller than a tiny pencil dot on a piece of paper.   It’s only about one three-trillionth of a human being.   It’s so small as to be, for all practical purposes, weightless.

Big D   So...?   That’s what the anti-abortionists call a “pre-born baby.” 

T.L.C.   Compared to a very-tiny, single cell, a new-born baby is about 3,000,000,000,000 cells [three trillion cells] and weighs about seven pounds.

Big D   That number is so big it’s all but meaningless; so let me give you an analogy using time and another using distance.   When resting, your heart beats about sixty times a minute.   At that rate, it would take over 95,000 years to reach three trillion heartbeats — You’d need 95,129. 39 years to be more precise.

T.L.C.   I probably won’t live that long.

Big D   Not in your present body.

T.L.C.   What’s your distance analogy?

Big D   If you had a piece of cord only one inch long representing the fertilized egg, to represent the seven-pound baby you’d need a one more than 47 million miles long, long enough to circle the Earth 1,890 times.   That’s about half the distance from here to the sun.

T.L.C.   So, one second is being made to seem the same as ninety-five thousand years, and one inch the same as 47 million miles.    [95,000 years] [47,000, 000 miles]

Big D   Symbolically speaking, yes.   The forced-motherhood promoters refuse to acknowledge a distinction of that magnitude.

T.L.C.   Do you suppose I could get a redwood seed half the size of a grain of rice and sell that to an anti-abortionist as a 37 ton tree?

Big D   I doubt it.   There is money involved.   Gullibility does have its limits.

T.L.C.   What they are doing is like holding up the alphabet and saying, “These 26 letters are a pre-written Bible.”

Big D   Well, not exactly.   They would also need to add the digits, 0 to 9 and a few symbols. 

T.L.C.   Come on! Be serious.

Big D   I am serious.   I’m just not being solemn.

T.L.C.   OK.   That single human cell functions as the instruction manual for how to make a baby, but it’s certainly not the baby itself.   It’s like the recipe isn’t the cake;  like the menu in the restaurant isn’t all those fully prepared meals.

Big D   Or like the blueprints for constructing a house are not the house itself.   Yes, I know, but the forced-motherhood promoters refuse to acknowledge this distinction, too.

T.L.C.   But the single cell depends for its very existence upon the woman in whom it resides.

Big D   Stoney, you’re getting pretty good.   Are we reversing roles here, or what?

T.L.C.   No, absolutely not.   Tell my why the no-choice advocates use pre-born baby instead of the correct, accurate language?

Big D   We cannot speak of someone else’s intentions for there is no way to verify such assertions; however, I’ll share with you the evidence in this matter and you decide for yourself where the intention lies.

T.L.C.   OK.

Big D   The term “pre-born baby” appears to be an intentionally fabricated deception.

T.L.C.   Why do you say that?

Big D   Because it twists the truth.   It confuses and misleads the naive, the uninformed and the gullible.   It hides the truth under an appeal to emotion, and the anti-abortionists, like the rest of us, are well aware that when logic comes up against emotion, emotion wins almost every time.   Also, when you examine their track record, you’ll find a 2000-year-long history of intentional deceptions, half-truths, outright lies, and criminal behavior, including arson and murder, so given the evidence, what do you say?

T.L.C.  The evidence points toward an intention to deceive and mislead.   At a bare minimum, the term “pre-born baby” definitely does not to bring with it the complete truth.   Where did it come from?

Big D   Somebody mad it up, and now they all us it because it gives an impression that an egg and a baby are the same thing.   It’s just another piece of emotional rhetoric designed to sell the ant-abortion story line.

T.L.C.  On what basis do the anti-abortionists make their claims for egg rights?

Big D   They base their claims on their own, personal proclamations that life begins at conception. 

T.L.C.  And what else?

Big D   That’s it!

T.L.C.   That’s it!   It can't be?

Big D   Yes, that’s it!

T.L.C.   Where's the factual evidence?

Big D   There isn't any!

T.L.C.   You’re kidding!   There’s got to be something more.

Big D   Nope!   What you see is what you get.

T.L.C.   OK.   Then what is this personal proclamations that accords eggs full-fledged human rights?

Big D   It's God's conception magic act.

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