"Back in Town" aired as a live broadcast from New York City’s Beacon Theater and features Carlin’s trademark acerbic observations on topics such as abortion, capital punishment, familiar expressions and bodily functions. Classic routines “Sanctity of Life,” “State Prison Farms,” “Free-Floating Hostility” and more are included in this hysterical stand-up comedy performance."
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George Carlin: "If you're pre-born, you're fine, if you're pre-schooled, you're fucked. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life, these people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors, what kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do everything they can do save a fetus, but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it?"
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George Carlin: "Boy these Conservatives are really something, aren't they... They're all in favor of the unborn. They'll do anything for the unborn. But once you are born, you are on your own."
You don't need me to point that out to you. You can just watch the video. But I'm highlighting that point because I think it's important.
I think writing satire about abortion, is like joking about about rape: "Hey, at least he was good looking. What are you complaining about? It might be the last time you ever have any chance of getting laid for a while anyway. Especially since you are in prison." Something about joking around about abortion or rape, seems off to me. Maybe that's just my conscience talking or something.
So I'm not going to be joking around about abortion. But people who call themselves the "Christian Right" (even though most of them probably can't find a prayer in the Bible, let alone read the book before) that's a different story. They're a very easy target because a lot of them are so stupid and crazy, and represent a major political faction in America.
Let's just start off with pro-life: if people who claim to be pro-life (who are really just antiabortion) ever had any real power in America, an escaped mental patient, as well as escaped convict, would have easier access to getting a gun legally, then a woman who needs a certain health procedure (like an abortion) just to stay alive. Or at least stay healthy.
If the far-right in America was ever in complete charge, not just The White House and Congress, but like all 50 states as well, all the courts, killing abortion doctors simply because they are abortion doctors, would be legal. But law enforcement officers who break up violent far-right political rallies, or arrest violent, far-right rioters, who are tying to break up the certifications of democratic elections, would be held legally liable for doing their duty and could go to prison.
Just because you are against abortion, doesn't make you pro-life by itself. There are people who are antiabortion, as well as pro-life. But that's because they believe in defense of all innocent lives. Not just fetuses who aren't even people yet and therefor don't have the same constitutional rights as people. But all innocent lives, regardless of their political affiliations, what they do for a living, their race, ethnicity, etc, or where they live.
I think what George Carlin was really doing here, is making fun of the people who in the 1990s were called the Christian-Right. People who as far as I''m concern, at least, don't know anything about being a Conservative, or even a Christian, let alone being pro-life.
What the far-right in America actually are, at least mentally and culturally (if not in actuality) are people from the 1800s or early 1910s, who woke up 1 morning and discovered that this no longer looks like the America that they're used to living in. And want to take the country back to that time where they're more comfortable living in and force that lifestyle on everyone else, including through government force.
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