Mad Magazine and the Roe Effect
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We know the Roe effect has arrived now that Mad magazine has recognized it. The humor mag's March issue has a comic strip (not available online; on page 24 of the magazine) that depicts a mother and daughter having the following dialogue (emphasis omitted):
Daughter: I'm going to a pro-choice rally.
Mother: Really? You know, when I found out I was pregnant with you I actually considered having an abortion.
Daughter: WHAT?
Mother: But I couldn't find a doctor, because back then abortion was outlawed.
Daughter: Why are you telling me this now?
Mother: Because if abortion was legal then, you wouldn't be around to go to the pro-choice rally today!
The girl in the Mad strip appears to be no more than 20, which means in real life she actually would have been aborted, since abortion has been legal everywhere in America for at least 32 years. Imagine how big those pro-choice rallies would have been in the absence of Roe v. Wade.
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Well the girl really isn't there, and this conversation never occurred.
Fascinating. I've never read MAD magazine, but are they all supposed to be crazy? Is it a parody?
If not, what a place to see a good pro-life argument, in a comic book!
I've never read MAD magazine, but are they all supposed to be crazy? Is it a parody?
MAD is most definitely a satire/parody publication. But that doesn't mean they can't make a point. The pro-abortion mentality is a logical fallacy--the more abortions performed, the fewer there will be in the future to support it.
Cacciadelia's godmother sent her first few children to public school before she became radicalized, and one of them rather appalled her teacher by pointing out this fact. Meghan - may she be blessed! - said, "You know, you're always talking about what a big family we have, but all our friends have big families, and they're all prolife. How many children do proabortion people have, one, or maybe two? We're going to take over in ten years or so."
Right on, Meghan!
In my feck MAD-reading days, the mag didn't hesitate to make moral points, such as blasting Reagan's suggestion of abstinence to help fight AIDS (oops, guess he was right), or lambasting George H. Bush's environmental policies.