Abortion - George Carlin

Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are

people you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place, huh?

Boy, these

conservatives are really something, aren’t they?

They’re all in favor of the

unborn.

They will do anything for the unborn.

But once you’re born,

you’re on your own.

Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from

conception to nine months.

After that, they don’t want to know about you.

They don’t want to hear from you.

No nothing.

No neonatal care, no day care,

no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing.

If you’re preborn, you’re fine;

if you’re preschool, you’re fucked

Conservatives don’t give a shit about you until you reach «military age».

Then they think you are just fine.

Just what they’ve been looking for.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.

Pro-life… pro-life… These people aren’t pro-life, they’re killing doctors!

What kind of pro-life is that?

What, they’ll do anything they can to save a

fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it?

They’re not pro-life.

You know what they are?

They’re anti-woman.

Simple as it gets, anti-woman.

They don’t like them.

They don’t like women.

They believe a woman’s primary role is to function as a brood mare for the

state

Pro-life… You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering

to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uteruses, do you?

No, you don’t see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you?

No, that might be something Christ would do.

And, you won’t see alot of these

pro-life people dousing themselves in kerosene and lighting themselves on fire.

You know, moraly committed religious people in South Vietnam knew how to stage

a goddamn demonstration, didn’t they?!

They knew how to put on a fucking

protest.

Light yourself on FIRE!

C’mon, you moral crusaders, let’s see a

little smoke.

To match that fire in your belly

Here’s another question I have: how come when it’s us, it’s an abortion,

and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?

Are we so much better than chickens

all of a sudden?

When did this happen, that we passed chickens in goodness?

Name six ways we’re better than chickens… See, nobody can do it!

You know why?

'Cuz chickens are decent people.

You don’t see chickens hanging

around in drug gangs, do you?

No, you don’t see a chicken strapping some guy to

a chair and hooking up his nuts to a car battery, do you?

When’s the last

chicken you heard about came home from work and beat the shit out of his hen,

huh?

Doesn’t happen.

'Cuz chickens are decent people

But let’s get back to this abortion shit.

Now, is a fetus a human being?

This seems to be the central question.

Well, if a fetus is a human being,

how come the census doesn’t count them?

If a fetus is a human being,

how come when there’s a miscarriage they don’t have a funeral?

If a fetus is a

human being, how come people say «we have two children and one on the way»

instead of saying «we have three children?»

People say life begins at

conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it’s a continuous

process.

Continuous, just keeps rolling along.

Rolling, rolling, rolling along

And say you know something?

Listen, you can go back further than that.

What about the carbon atoms?

Hah?

Human life could not exist without carbon.

So is it just possible that maybe we shouldn’t be burning all this coal?

Just looking for a little consistency here in these anti-abortion arguments.

See the really hardcore people will tell you life begins at fertilization.

Fertilization, when the sperm fertilizes the egg.

Which is usually a few

moments after the man says «Gee, honey, I was going to pull out but the phone

rang and it startled me.»

Fertilization

But even after the egg is fertilized, it’s still six or seven days before it

reaches the uterus and pregnancy begins, and not every egg makes it that far.

Eighty percent of a woman’s fertilized eggs are rinsed and flushed out of her

body once a month during those delightful few days she has.

They wind up on

sanitary napkins, and yet they are fertilized eggs.

So basically what these

anti-abortion people are telling us is that any woman who’s had more than more

than one period is a serial killer!

Consistency.

Consistency.

Hey, hey,

if they really want to get serious, what about all the sperm that are wasted

when the state executes a condemned man, one of these pro-life guys who’s

watching cums in his pants, huh?

Here’s a guy standing over there with his

jockey shorts full of little Vinnies and Debbies, and nobody’s saying a word to

the guy.

Not every ejaculation deserves a name

Now, speaking of consistency, Catholics, which I was until I reached the age of

reason, Catholics and other Christians are against abortions, and they’re

against homosexuals.

Well who has less abortions than homosexuals?!

Leave these fucking people alone, for Christ sakes!

Here is an entire class of

people guaranteed never to have an abortion!

And the Catholics and Christians

are just tossing them aside!

You’d think they’d make natural allies.

Go look for consistency in religion.

And speaking of my friends the Catholics,

when John Cardinal O’Connor of New York and some of these other Cardinals and

Bishops have experienced their first pregnancies and their first labor pains

and they’ve raised a couple of children on minimum wage, then I’ll be glad to

hear what they have to say about abortion.

I’m sure it’ll be interesting.

Enlightening, too.

But, in the meantime what they ought to be doing is telling

these priests who took a vow of chastity to keep their hands off the altar boys!

Keep your hands to yourself, Father!

You know?

When Jesus said «Suffer the little children come unto me», that’s not what he was talking about!

So you know what I tell these anti-abortion people?

I say «Hey.

Hey.

If you think a fetus is more important that a woman, try getting a fetus to

wash the shit stains out of your underwear.

For no pay and no pension.

«I tell them «Think of an abortion as term limits.

That’s all it is.

Bioligical term limits