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It’s gonna be open season on abortion doctors in South Dakota!
Posted by PZ Myers on February 15, 2011 I’m only a few miles away from the Dakotas — if HB1171 passes, I could put on some hospital scrubs (camouflage, you know), lurk quietly in a hospital, and when some ob-gyn pokes his or her head out, BAM, justifiable homicide. FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to…
“the outworking of the corrosive nihilistic amorality that is inherent to evolutionary materialism”
Posted by PZ Myers on January 18, 2011 The IDiots at Uncommon Descent are horrified and appalled by my ideas about the status of fetuses and babies … so horrified, in fact, that some of them want to make me the poster child for the fall of Western Civilization into a godless, nihilistic chaos in which babies are casually destroyed, and there are…
The evolution of rape?
Posted by PZ Myers on January 17, 2011 There are days when I simply cannot bear the entire field of evolutionary psychology: it’s so deeply tainted with bad research and a lack of rigor. And that makes me uncomfortable, because the fundamental premise, that our behaviors are a product of our history, is self-evidently true. It’s just that researchers in this field couple…
PRUUUUUUDES!
Posted by PZ Myers on January 14, 2011 Jacqulyn Levin, a high school health education teacher, had a simple lesson plan to help students understand the anatomy of the female reproductive tract. “She stood in front of the students,” district spokesman Jeff Puma said. “If you can picture a body builder flexing his arms and having his hands [above head level] out to…
Conservative self-identifies with single-celled brainless organism
Posted by PZ Myers on January 5, 2011 Among my usual flood of daily email, I frequently get tossed onto mailing lists for conservative think tanks. Why? I don’t know. I suspect that it’s for the same reason I also get a lot of gay porn in my email: not because I follow it or asked to be added, but because some tired…
My mouse has two daddies
Posted by PZ Myers on December 11, 2010 This is awesome news. Biologists have figured out how to enable two male mice to have babies together, with no genetic contribution from a female mouse. I, for one, look forward to our future gay rodent overlords. It was a clever piece of work. Getting progeny from two male parents has a couple of difficulties.…
Rebuked by Michael Egnor!
Posted by PZ Myers on December 1, 2010 It’s kind of like having my fashion sense chastised by the Insane Clown Posse…I’m not going to lose sleep over it. He’s upset that I don’t think a blastocyst deserves the same consideration we give to a child or an adult human being — that I have baldly stated that I’m pro-abortion. Unfortunately, his argument…
An online abortion poll — for real
Posted by PZ Myers on November 20, 2010 I’m about as pro-choice as you can get; I’m even willing to say that I’m pro-abortion, and would like to encourage more people to abort. But I’m also rather shocked by my fellow Minnesotans, Pete and Alisha Arnold, who have decided to allow people to vote on whether they should get an abortion. Way to…
Heavens! Confrontation!
Posted by PZ Myers on October 27, 2010 Imagine you’re pregnant. Imagine that you discover the fetus is doomed by serious birth defects, and is going to be stillborn no matter what. Imagine that you weepily go to the local reproductive services to have the futile pregnancy terminated. Imagine (and this is probably the easiest part) that you get there and discover a…
I had no idea this was even a question
Posted by PZ Myers on October 6, 2010 Sometimes…sometimes you just want to kick some ass. And the only thing holding you back is the unpleasant task afterward of having to scrub your boots. This is an actual article from USA Today’s “Faith and Reason” section, which doesn’t seem to have much reason behind it. It’s by Cathy Lynn Grossman, who claims to…