[Morgana]

I'll let the FReepers explain to the educated idiot why Americans, decent ones that is, don't accept abortion.

[Jedidah]

He can no longer understand. His conscience has been seared by a hot iron.

[ogen hal]

Maybe it is because they do not like to KILL children?

[doc1019]

Killing babies doesn’t appeal to most people.

[al_c]

“It’s the 21st century and the Supreme Court has spoken; can’t you anti-choice yahoos get with the program?”

It's the 21st century and God has spoken; can't you anti-life yahoos get with the program?

[deweyfrank]

Because some of still have morals, you idiot.

[Artcore]

I’m wondering why this professor doesn’t perform a late term abortion on himself?

[ssaftler]

UC Berkley sociology professor

That's all I needed to read to understand this ALLEGEDLY educated idiot's position.

[MacMattico]

Hmm... His name is Claude. Obviously a male that wants to tell women to accept killing their babies. I thought their mantra was that it was no one else’s business except the women's? He's a sexist pig! Demand his resignation NOW! (Get it NOW and now!) I'm a woman and if this guy thinks he knows it all have him bond with an unborn baby and if he's still for abortion he's even more of a vile scum.

[freedumb2003]

“Why won’t you conservatives get on board with killing millions of babies? It should be obvious that is a good thing!”

Liberalism is a racist nihilistic culture. This whine puts it out there for all to see.

[rfp1234]

Has this a-hole academic actually ever seen graphic pictures of the results of an abortion?

[Mortrey]

“can’t you anti-choice yahoos get with the program?”

He’s sooooo much smarter than us, isn’t he?

I’m sure he’s never contemplated his mother making the “choice” he’d like to foist on those of us with consciences.

-—signed, anti-murder for convenience yahoo.

[Quickgun]

Perhaps he needs to “off” himself, By making his own abortion retroactive, he could set an example for us...

[Impala64ssa]

Well if he needs it explained, he will never understand.

[Impala64ssa]

Well if he needs it explained, he will never understand.

[YHAOS]

"Fischer cites a few sociologists who argue that disputes about gender roles lie at the heart of the abortion debate:"

What lies at the "heart of the abortion debate" is the taking of an innocent life.

Moron.

[Boogieman]

“can’t you anti-choice yahoos get with the program?”

I guess the learned Prof never heard that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Or maybe he just “deconstructed” that myth.

[Mark]

Well, in his case maybe a retroactive abortion is ok.

[Rudder]

It's Berkeley, numbnuts!

Live Action News needs an editor.

[Billthedrill]

It is the business of sociology to explain why people behave the way they do. Were the good professor serious about the topic he'd ask a few. Better still, take a course in basic biology.

I want to be patient with him because it is clear that he appreciates the basic question - there is obviously something different between the broad acceptance of sexual activity and a similar acceptance of abortion. Whatever could it be? Um...now let me think. Could it be because the latter involves a dead human being?

A sociologist cannot draw that conclusion. The furthest he can go is to conclude that there is a perception that the killing of a human being is involved. From there it is easy to fall back into the comfort of the position that it's only a matter of perception, and that the perception is likely to be erroneous.

Well, it isn't. It's a matter of stark appreciation of biological fact. That thing isn't undifferentiated tissue, it is a person. I will quote Christopher Hitchens on the issue: if it isn't human, what is it? And if it isn't alive, what is it?

It is, to be sure, a perfectly legitimate sociological question as to why so many of us think that the death of a human being is involved. "Because it is" is a terrifying answer. But it does lead to an equally valid question that I challenge him to ask: why so many think that the death of a human being is not involved.

[WKUHilltopper]

I wonder why this Berkley Professor wasn’t aborted.