Two scientists with a cure

The talk around abortion can get really weird. Jim Bakker, one of the early TV evangelists who has spent time in jail, said:

The thing we have done in America, we have killed our babies. We have killed the future of America. I told you the other day about a story, someone said they asked God, “Why haven’t we had a cure for cancer?” And He said back, “I gave you two scientists that had the cure and both of them were aborted.”

I’ve heard similar arguments before. My reply is:

God sent two scientists who had the cure, but both of them were black and didn’t get the education they needed in public schools.

Readers of the blog Joe.My.God supply more responses.

… they were homeschooled by fundamentalist parents who don’t believe in science.

… they were gay bashed.

… they were incarcerated for pot possession.

… they were shot by police for holding a cell phone.

… their research wasn’t funded because of anti-choice groups on the grant review boards.

… they were deported for being black Muslim lesbians.

… they were gunned down in a classroom before they turned 18.

… they got cancer in their youth, which would have inspired them, but they didn’t have health insurance and died.

… they enlisted in the Army to escape poverty, were sent overseas to protect America’s oil interests, and killed by an IED.

… they were in the womb of the mistress of a pro-life, pro-family married Republican and were aborted before the hush money could clear the bank.

… they were born as girls in the Arab world and didn’t get an education.

I’ll add one more:

… they were women who couldn’t get contraceptives, got pregnant, and to keep on the job went for an abortion, but it was illegal and botched, and they died.