Desi Lydic is The Daily Show’s temp host of the week on Comedy Central and she got started on Tuesday by reacting to the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that embryos are people. Lydic did not take the news well, as she dismissed embryos as “just jizz and eggs.”
After an ABC report on the ruling, Lydic claimed, “That's right, the bar has been moved again. From now on in Alabama, life begins when a man notices his first cousin is hot.”
Lydic continued, “Just to clarify what's happening here: tens of thousands of women have children using IVF every year and since it's not possible to do that without creating some excess embryos, the state of Alabama has now ruled that starting a family is basically murder. You know, pro-life!”
Contradicting herself, Lydic added, “And the way this ruling happened is so crazy. This wasn't even intentional. They just dropped a test tube! You know, back in my day, we had something called the five-second rule, and it was sacred.”
Yes, Alabama ruled that people can be sued for destroying embryos, but what does that have to do with starting a family? Rolling right along, Lydic lamented, "And I'm sorry, but it's just weird to say that frozen embryos are legally the same as children. Last time I checked, you're not allowed to store kids in the freezer. And yeah, yeah, I have checked, and now I'm on some kind of CPS watch list. Don't get me wrong, embryos are extremely precious to potential parents, but technically, they're just jizz and eggs. That's not a child, that's an appetizer at a very avant-garde Brooklyn restaurant."
By her own materialist logic, Lydic isn’t a person, "technically,” she is also the result of sperm and eggs. Of course, one assumes that deep down Lydic doesn’t believe that about herself, so why is it different for embryos?
Here is a transcript for the February 20 show:
Comedy Central The Daily Show
2/20/2024
11:13 PM ET
DESI LYDIC: That's right, the bar has been moved again. From now on in Alabama, life begins when a man notices his first cousin is hot. Just to clarify what's happening here: tens of thousands of women have children using IVF every year and since it's not possible to do that without creating some excess embryos, the state of Alabama has now ruled that starting a family is basically murder. You know, pro-life!
And the way this ruling happened is so crazy. This wasn't even intentional. They just dropped a test tube! You know, back in my day, we had something called the five-second rule, and it was sacred. And I'm sorry, but it's just weird to say that frozen embryos are legally the same as children. Last time I checked, you're not allowed to store kids in the freezer. And yeah, yeah, I have checked, and now I'm on some kind of CPS watch list. Don't get me wrong, embryos are extremely precious to potential parents, but technically, they're just jizz and eggs. That's not a child, that's an appetizer at a very avant-garde Brooklyn restaurant.
