# I need to make a bad taste "joke" about the recent Roe/Wade issue **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** roe\_vs\_wade\_abortion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2022, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815 "2022-06-25T05:49:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jungian_camisole1/32/3646_2.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole1)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/41 "2022-06-27T02:07:52Z")
I feel the need to invite “Pro Life” Republicans to sit nakedly on a fallen and particularly spiny cactus. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/42 "2022-06-27T04:59:56Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > If we conservatives had our way, every murderer would be executed. It’s the liberals who believe in coddling criminals. In addition to all the well-deserved mocking that this spluttery and off-topic harrumphing has already received, I’ll just point out that executing everybody convicted of murder in the US [would involve killing a whole lot of wrongfully convicted innocent people.](https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/first-estimate-wrongful-convictions-general-prison-population) Several out of every hundred, in fact. > [@](#): > > New evidence comes to light that wasn’t available during the original trial, and someone previously found guilty of a crime is suddenly cleared. > > For capital crimes such as murder and rape, this happens in approximately 3 to 5 percent of cases […] Given that over 15,000 people are convicted of murder every year in the US, that means that if these dumbass tough-talking “conservatives had [their] way”, they’d be wrongfully executing hundreds of wrongfully convicted non-murderers every year. And just to state what ought to be the obvious: refusing to execute criminals, even murderers, is not the same thing as “coddling” them. Death-penalty opponents don’t hold that view because we want to be tender to murderers, but because we want to live in a more rational society that doesn’t childishly imagine that executing murderers somehow stops people from murdering. (And also because we care about the rights and lives of the wrongfully convicted who are not murderers.) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/43 "2022-06-27T05:02:03Z")
Hey, sometimes ya gotta break some eggs . . . but not if they’re fertilized of course. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/44 "2022-06-27T13:11:40Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I’ll just point out that executing everybody convicted of murder in the US [would involve killing a whole lot of wrongfully convicted innocent people.](https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/first-estimate-wrongful-convictions-general-prison-population) Several out of every hundred, in fact. “ **Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own** ” > **[Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedite_eos._Novit_enim_Dominus_qui_sunt_eius)** > > "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." is a phrase reportedly spoken by the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209. A direct translation of the Medieval Latin phrase is "Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own". Papal legate and Cistercian abbot Arnaud Amalric was the military commander of the Crusade in its initial phase and leader of this first major military action of the Crusade, the assault on Béziers, and was reported by Le... _Kill them all. Let God sort them out._ ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/45 "2022-06-27T14:50:18Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It seems to me that White suburbanites will always have access to abortions. It’s been said that abortion bans will hit Black and Brown people the hardest. Anti-choice states seem to be populated by people who don’t like Black or Brown people. So they pass laws to make more of them. > [@](#): > > “I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday.” > **[GOP rep scrambles after thanking Trump for a win for ‘white life’](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-rep-scrambles-thanking-trump-win-white-life-rcna35451)** > > Republican Rep. Mary Miller says she misspoke while thanking Donald Trump for delivering a "victory for white life." It's worth considering the context. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/46 "2022-06-27T14:56:44Z")
Like trump with the Central Park six. If they didn’t do this, they did something else. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/47 "2022-06-27T15:15:05Z")
Or they would have eventually. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/48 "2022-06-27T16:09:40Z")
American conservatives are shit people ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/49 "2022-06-27T19:00:26Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > It’s the **liberals** that are hell-bent on getting rid of the death penalty, which is the ultimate consequence. If we conservatives had our way, every murderer would be executed. Which is why it’s so baffling that any doctrine-respecting Catholic would ever vote for a conservative. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/50 "2022-06-27T20:04:07Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > American conservatives are shit people Cite for their personhood? ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/51 "2022-06-27T21:22:49Z")
I couldn’t find a better thread for this; it’s awfully harsh: > “IF U DONT AGREE GET THE FUCK OFF MY PAGE EVERY ALLIGATOR HATES YOU AND I HOPE UR FAMILY IS CURSED FOR SEVERAL GENERATIONS TO NEVER SEE AN ALLIGATOR AGAIN” The whole series of recent shit decisions by SCOTUS has me rethinking my position on post-natal abortion. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/52 "2022-06-27T23:03:18Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Which is why it’s so baffling that any doctrine-respecting Catholic would ever vote for a conservative. On that point, I somewhat agree. Catholic doctrine contradicts the Bible on many points, one of them being the death penalty. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/53 "2022-06-28T02:26:40Z")
> [@irae](#): > > > [@madmonk28](#): > > > > American conservatives are shit people > > Cite for their personhood? They were begotten parthenogenetically, so when did they become ensouled to become a person? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/54 "2022-06-28T10:10:41Z")
Yeah, just shit people. But it begs an interesting question: does American conservate’s fascism begin at conception, or birth? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/55 "2022-06-28T11:36:30Z")
In fairness, I’ve watched that clip several times, and it _does_ appear to me to be a stumble over the words. It may have been a Freudian Slip, and I hate to take a Republican’s side, but I think it was just an inadvertent bit of being tongue-tied. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/56 "2022-06-28T11:42:11Z")
So? They _still_ trot out Obama’s 57 States. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/57 "2022-06-28T11:54:07Z")
And are curiously silent about Herschel Walker. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/58 "2022-06-28T13:50:41Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Yeah, just shit people. I feel like there’s a Marilyn Manson song in there somewhere. The bullshit people, the bullshit people… It’s all relative to the size of your steeple… ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/59 "2022-06-28T14:28:44Z")
They need to stop saying bad things on purpose, which they do all the time, before I can say “yeah, that was inadvertent or an accident”. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815/60 "2022-06-28T14:48:02Z")
It’s also like Marilyn Manson because they’re a bunch of women hating sadists. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815.md?page=4)