Alphonse: A Monster for Our Time

It was only a matter of time.

The horror…

…imagine having a baby inside your body.

“A pill that will kill a baby.”

Patton Oswalt’s words, not mine. [HEADS UP: LANGUAGE ALERT]

Dorothy Day and Abortion.

“The doctor was fat, dirty, and furtive.”

Of course, it’s not an argument – just a memory. But a memory from a woman who spent her life amid the suffering of the world. The comments get interesting on this one.

Well, phooey.

That makes not one, but two production companies that have asked me to write scripts around my angry little guy and then…um.

Anybody want to jump in and make it three? No? How about just funding the graphic novel?

More on The Unborn

Just a teaser, really. But it does include a brief flash of the above image, which is nicely creepy. And the twitching bags in the storage container? Dayum.

Why yes…

…those are over 2,000 fetuses…

And what do you know, someone made a horror movie about it.

Exploitation? Welling up of moral anxiety? Both?

“Abortions of girls.”

Not my words. The New York Times’.

The Venture Bros. considers abortion.

Just watch the first minute. Well, watch it all if you like – it’s an amazing show. But the first minute is the part that’s germane here.

The Onion gets all abort-y.

The Onion takes aim at the cartoonish caricature of Planned Parenthood as an abortion-happy death machine. “And since Congress voted to retain our federal funding, it’s going to be that much easier for us to maximize the number of tiny, beating hearts we stop every day.” Ho ho ho!