CounterPunch Exclusives

CounterPunch Exclusives

A Modest Proposal: On the Windfall Owed to America’s Elders, and Other Logical Consequences of Personhood at Conception

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel – CC BY 2.5

“Adam was an Onanist.” — Graffiti, men’s restroom, Vatican City (public wing) “I know. I watched.” — Added below, in gold marker

“Adam was an Onanist.”

— Graffiti, men’s restroom, Vatican City (public wing)

— Added below, in gold marker

Woman, we are told, began as a spare ribbon of flesh — all too willing to be seduced by the first dark and handsome horny lad that came along, and blamed for it ever since. (Melania, the First Lady, immediately called a press conference to deny that she had slept with the devil. She was not believed.)

Two thousand years of theology, and another fifty of American jurisprudence, have been devoted to making sure she pays for it. The Supreme Court, in its wisdom, has now formalized the arrangement: life begins at conception, the lawyers have spoken, and the womb is once again public property. The women of America received this news with the equanimity one might expect of people who........

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