So after yesterday’s blog on the Church of England’s statement that we should go ahead and get rid of babies that aren’t perfect, Rush Limbaugh today was talking about the very same article and another one on “designer babies” that didn’t talk about the church at all. Linked here is a transcript of what he said on the subject. I think he makes excellent points – his and my opinions on the matter are quite similar.

Rush brings up an angle I haven’t considered much before, but it goes right along with the “victimhood” arguments – don’t talk about the war unless you’re a veteran, don’t talk about ESCR unless you have parkinson’s, and so on:

Here’s the money quote, by the way. I want to go back to this baby story, because this says it all, and it makes my point from a couple or three weeks before the election all over again. This is a quote from a parent who’s going through this screening to determine whether or not her embryos contain “flaws,” if you will. “Unless you have lived with a child that has a terrible disability or disease then you can’t speak about it.” So once again we have the introduction of the innocent suffering victim, in this case the parent of a child who suffers from something, and we are supposed to identify with the child suffering, we are supposed to identify with the suffering of the living who are made inconvenient by this — and you can’t comment, folks.