CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays
PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast
CC: No, eggs are ok
P: But eggs are chicken
CC: Not until they hatch
P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born?
CC: Correct—um, no, wait.

@juglugs

[me mumbling] the problem is that the origin of the Catholic objection to abortion is from Thomist "natural law" rather than "life begins at conception" which is more of the reactionary evangelical take and so . . .

[Everyone] SHUT UP NOBODY CARES