How many are aware that "Post-birth abortion" is LITERALLY science fiction ? [View all]

[eppur_se_muova]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pre-persons

PKD disagreed strongly with Roe v. Wade and wrote this story as a "response" -- it can't honestly be called anything like a rebuttal, it's just too delusional*. It rests on the bizarre premise that Congress could vote to define the legal beginning of life as based on a test of analytical ability -- something that many living adults couldn't pass. And it completely ignores the fact that birth itself is not an arbitrarily defined moment, but a very real, definable moment in time in which 'before' and 'after' are different in the most fundamental way imaginable.

If you're willing to believe "post-birth abortion" is a thing, you probably believe The Hunger Games was a documentary.

But some theofascists have latched onto this story as a talking point, and are passing it around as if it were a reasonable argument. See https://culturalrevue.com/2022/06/26/phillip-k-dicks-lost-pro-life-short-story-the-pre-persons/ (trigger warning -- toxic religiosity at the link).





*(Many regard PKD as a brilliant author, but he had mental problems, including hearing voices in his head ("Radio Free Albemuth" is supposed to be autobiographical) and hallucinations in which he communicated with a God-like being he named "Valis" which formed the basis of a fictional trilogy.)