May 06 2009
“This is not a woman’s rights issue but a human rights issue”
How supermodel, Kathy Ireland, became pro-life:
My entire life I was pro-choice — who was I to tell another woman what she could or couldn’t do with her body? But when I was 18, I became a Christian and I dove into the medical books, I dove into science,” Ireland told Tarts while promoting her insightful new book “Real Solutions for Busy Mom: Your Guide to Success and Sanity.”
“What I read was astounding and I learned that at the moment of conception a new life comes into being. The complete genetic blueprint is there, the DNA is determined, the blood type is determined, the sex is determined, the unique set of fingerprints that nobody has had or ever will have is already there.”
“I called Planned Parenthood and begged them to give me their best argument and all they could come up with that it is really just a clump of cells and if you get it early enough it doesn’t even look like a baby. Well, we’re all clumps of cells and the unborn does not look like a baby the same way the baby does not look like a teenager, a teenager does not look like a senior citizen. That unborn baby looks exactly the way human beings are supposed to look at that stage of development. It doesn’t suddenly become a human being at a certain point in time,” Ireland argued. “I’ve also asked leading scientists across our country to please show me some shred of evidence that the unborn is not a human being. I didn’t want to be pro-life, but this is not a woman’s rights issue but a human rights issue.”
Cool. As an aside, I do wonder why anyone would wear a bikini in a barn, but who am I to quibble? She’s pro-life, she looks good in that bikini. Even in a barn.
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Because Brigitte is learning new words, thanks to that famous book she mentions below: Not to quibble (who, me?), but honestly, her vastus medialis looks a bit weak… She needs to do more squats.
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Andrea asks others to remind her to never go to the beach with Brigitte. Ever.
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Tanya is always taken aback: I can’t even get a bride to walk in the damp grass with a pair of stilletos, but here’s Kathy Ireland sitting her nearly bare bum directly on straw (makes me itch just looking at it).
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Ms. Ireland has provided a very nice summary of the rational basis for the pro-life position. For a more in-depth analysis, I highly recommend the following article by Robert George:
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/daed.2008.137.1.23
For those without a Daedalus subscription, a free version is available here:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3671/is_200801/ai_n24392942
I have yet to see anyone demonstrate a flaw in George’s logic. Like Ms. Ireland, I keep asking pro-choice people to show me where the pro-life position is wrong, and so far they have come up with nothing.