I'd Kill For Better Looking Skin

We can now add one more bullet to the long list of reasons for abortion: abortions must remain a legal right because it allows us to be beautiful. That's right. Abortions are necessary so we can have better looking skin. Neocutis has used the skin tissue from an aborted baby to develop a new line of lotion. Don't worry about the moral aspect--it was only a "one-time medical termination." Only one child had to lose their life for the rest of us to add to our arsenal against wrinkles. After all, wouldn't you kill one person for the betterment of millions? Sometimes certain people just have to die so we can bring in the new utopian dream.

Alright, fine, the child wasn't aborted for the purpose of using its tissue in a skin cream. It was donated after the fact, but the logic behind the reasoning can still be seen creeping behind their phrasing. It was only a one-time event out of the millions of babies that are born a year and it will have lasting results. Besides, "no additional fetal biopsies will ever be required."

For now, at least--in this field.

Do you see how we can play with words to make a case for any ideal we want to justify? It's not murdering a child, it's not even an abortion, it's a one-time medical termination. Hell, why not just make that the new norm to refer to an abortion. Are you going to choose to have that one-time medical termination? Are you pro-one time medical termination, or are you anti-one time medical termination? It adds a nice sound to it all. "For a mere one-time medical termination you can have better looking skin." "Great! I'll take three."

Where do the perverted definitions and rationalizations stop?

They don't stop.

Remember that one time you wanted to do that one thing that you knew you really shouldn't do. Remember how your brain allowed you to rationalize a reason to do it anyway? Yea, I have that problem too.

What's the safeguard against these abhorrent justifications? Where do we turn? The only answer I can think of has become politically incorrect and society seems to be turning to the government to fix its problems. Hopefully history proves itself wrong before we move from killing one person for better looking skin to killing millions for some other dream.

But hey, at least we'll look good doing it.