JONES: Sir, please state why you
believe murdering unborn children should be a legal and protected
practice.
SMITH: It isn't murder, and it isn't a
child.
JONES: How can you argue that it isn't
a child? Genetically, the baby is 100% human. It's a human baby when
it is born. Why do you say that it isn't a human baby before it's
born?
SMITH: It's a non-viable blob of
tissue. It's not a human because it cannot live on it's own. It's not
murder because it's non-viable. It wouldn't live anyway.
JONES: I see. Bailiff, would you kindly
take a large vice and crush the witness's head?
SMITH: What!? You're asking the Bailiff
to kill me!?
JONES: No, I'm not. It's not murder. I
have determined that you are non-viable.
SMITH: But I'm living on my own right
now! I'm alive! I'm perfectly viable!
JONES: No, sir, you're not. You see, if
I removed you from the earth's atmosphere right now and pulled you
into outer space, you would die quickly. So you see, you're
non-viable.
SMITH: But that's a totally different
environment! If you leave me here, I'll be perfectly fine.
JONES: You said it exactly. You see, an
unborn baby is perfectly viable. If we leave it right where it is, it
will continue to live and to grow. It will be born and transition
naturally to the stage where you agree it is viable (birth). It will
do all of this automatically.
You argue that the baby is not viable
because if we suddenly yanked it out of its environment into a
different one, it would die quickly. But as I demonstrated, so would
you. That baby is perfectly viable in the environment that it is in,
if we leave it there.
Therefore, by your own words, you have
demonstrated an unborn baby to be a viable human being.
