Lifesite does it again

[pegkerr]

Get a load of this particular hobbyhorse.

Not content with the critical skills offered by Michael O'Brien, that "foremost Harry Potter critic" (see here) Lifesite helpfully publishes another essay with this fascinating hypothesis:

We wish to hypothesize that the popularity of the Harry Potter series is due to the fact that the themes and the main character strike deep chords in the minds of our younger generation because they are abortion survivors.

Read the rest here.

Really, there are no words.

(Well, maybe you have some. Let 'er rip.)

Comments

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

I really don't think that 50% of first-world children (you know, the ones who can afford to read the HP books -- and can READ) are 'abortion survivors'. Even if there was an abortion in the family. As usual, the anti-choice people are making an assumption that all abortions are done for the same reason: people want to kill babies. (And I'm making an assumption that all anti-choice people are the same, but I am so sick of this black-and-white mentality which has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with punishing women for having sex and possibly even enjoying it.)

Also, I think there's a very good chance that a mother would not tell her child that she had an abortion prior to that child being conceived, if she could at all help it.

The authors of this article (and the pseudo-scientist who came up with PASS) are talking about such a minuscule subset of any given first-world population, if they are even talking about any people at all. They've decided that THIS is the reason for the HP phenomenon?

What a disgusting term and a disgusting hypothesis.

[skg.livejournal.com]

And are there really countries where "the majority of children are aborted"??

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I remember reading during the last years of the USSR, birth control was so unreliable (rumored to be so because white Russians were outnumbered and women could not be bribed to have enough babies to even up the numbers) that the average young Russian of a certain age had probably had 4 or 5 abortions. (even if married or in a long-term relationship). Because they had no food to feed that extra mouth.

Don't know if those numbers have ever been pinned down.