There was a picture of a happy pregnant couple, Sarah Silverman and her boyfriend. They were smiling and apparently happy about the baby on the way. I would have guessed she was in her second trimester at least. Beside that photo was a second photo with a not pregnant Sarah Silverman. The first photo labeled before and the second after; the message, “Got a quickie aborsh in case R v W gets overturned.”
By the second trimester the baby has a beating heart, functioning nerves, muscles, and organs. The baby’s sex becomes apparent at fourteen weeks. The developing skeletal system becomes apparent at fifteen weeks, which is thirteen weeks after conception. The eyes are moving and the baby is able to suck about week sixteen. Fat begins to accumulate at seventeen weeks and in week eighteen the baby begins to hear. For girls, the uterus begins to form at week nineteen, seventeen weeks after conception. At twenty weeks, the halfway point and eighteen weeks into the pregnancy, the mommy may begin to feel the baby’s first movements, week twenty-one the baby begins to swallow, week twenty-two baby grows eyebrows, week twenty-three baby has finger and foot prints, week twenty-four real hair grows, week twenty-five the baby responds to familiar sounds such as mommy’s voice with movement, week twenty-six, twenty four weeks after conception the baby’s fingernails grow.
The first picture represented a pregnancy somewhere in this neighborhood. It is mocking not only the pregnancy at that stage but also the joy of couples who are unintelligent enough to actually want children.
The second picture shows not the absence of a child but the absence of any care for anyone or anything save her own sense of humor; again the problem is that the offended are unintelligent. It is not that it is offensive to talk about abortion but it is irresponsible to belittle the experience of other women, unless there is only one prescribed response that the feminist intelligecia will allow to women in the post abortive state.
The argument that she was actually posting about a burrito in the first place is irrelevant after the second post and accompanying message. After all the burrito was not aborted but digested thus fulfilling the expectations of the natural world for ingested nourishment.
The same cannot be said of abortion. Which makes the false and mocking joy of the first photo ironic; as the intelligent couple understands the completely natural cause and effect inherent in and distinct to sexual intercourse and it’s the unintelligent couple who posts burrito pregnancy/ abortion photos to twitter.
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