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Deconversion Therapy

Alabama Abortion, Mel Brooks, and Musket F*ckers

Deconversion Therapy

deconversiontherapy

Religion & Spirituality, Documentary, Religion, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9585 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Can Bonnie and Karen find something funny about the Abortion ban that just passed in Alabama? We’re gonna try! Bonnie found some great articles from satire at The Reductress to Noam Chomsky’s great video of why the Southern states and evangelicals grabbed on to the abortion issue. Cory Doctorow gave a lovely recap that included our new favorite term “musketf*ckers.” Karen and Bonnie both learned about sex in strange ways, from grandmothers to toilet notes.  The Bible never mentions “Do not Abort,” but the religious right picks out verses from the ancient pre-ultrasound era to say God knew you in the womb, sooooooo… Plus, they really love those ten Commandments. But Karen asks “Which Ones??” The ones in Exodus 34:6-7 or in Exodus 34:14-27—the one that includes lots to do with firstborns, donkeys, goats and sacrifices.God “repeated” his commandments to Moses after the first ones broke, but God’s memory seems to be lacking. Bonnie thought the breaking of the tablets was just a Mel Brooks scene from “The History of the World.”  Bonnie discloses a trip to Planned Parenthood. Oh, if Karen had known she even walked into that place when they were Christians, she would have shunned her. Then it’s time to talk about Alabama and their low education standards and high telling-people-what-to-do standard. We highly recommend the podcast S-Town, that isn’t about abortion, but an intelligent guy in Alabama trying to mentally get out. We try and go through the logistics of the Alabama Abortion ban with 14 year olds lined up in prison or financially in debt with fines. Karen talks about a young friend who had an abortion and Karen was conflicted with how relieved she was. We finish with a perfect recounting of the hypocrisy of pro-lifers in a Facebook post by an Alabama minister named Dave Barnhart that should go viral.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Deconversion Therapy. This is Karen.

0:17.0

And I'm Bonnie.

0:19.0

And thank you for tuning in. I was just looking at our Facebook

0:25.4

private group, which you can find looking at Deconversion Therapy at the memes that people have

0:31.6

been putting up this week. Those are good. They're hilarious. And I put up one from a guy named Addie onto our Instagram.

0:41.5

You can find us there too, which is one of my favorites since we're recording on a Sunday.

0:47.4

And it's the one where they have handicapped parking spots at churches.

0:53.8

Like, why are these needed?

0:56.1

Can they not be healed?

0:58.6

So find us on any of your favorite social media eyes.

1:05.5

And while you're on your phone, we'd love for you to rate us.

1:11.0

Karen always says, we love to be rated and I say, I would like God to judge me.

1:17.5

That he has.

1:19.1

I know.

1:19.4

And he's given you a one, a one star review.

1:23.0

One is the highest.

1:24.5

Feel free.

1:25.4

We'd love to have a review on there.

1:28.6

Again, if you don't know exactly what to write, just email us.

1:33.1

We have a script that would be perfect for you.

1:38.7

And on this episode, we just cannot ignore the Alabama ruling recently that outlaws abortions at any stage for any reason.

1:51.7

By the governor who's 74 and a lady.

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