Room for Twelve

Some of us have likely seen the car commercial in which six lovely women are riding in a car for what appears to be a night out. The voice-over notes, as the women exit the car, how it has ample room for six--or for twelve, depending on how you look at it. All the women are pregnant. Well, yes, many look at it that way. Pregnant women are often told they are "eating for two."

If a car commercial (I don't remember the make) can get away in this pc-world with even suggesting that counting twelve passengers is at least a valid way of looking at the situation, then perhaps that's another small sign that certain knowledge just can't be entirely suppressed. It's okay, it seems, to view the child as a child, a human being.

Unless, of course, you happen to be a nominee for U. S. Supreme Court.

Comments

[beloml]

Oh, please. Next you'll be arguing that the lady in Arizona should have gotten away with using the carpool lane just because she was harboring a fetus.

[J. Lambert]

"Harboring a fetus", that's a revealing choice of words.

[Mary Alexander]

I haven't seen that commercial!!!!! The unfortunate downside of rarely watching TV. And until today I didn't know there was one! LOL

[beloml]

Would your position be different if I had said "pregnant?" Regardless of the semantics, she was wrong to try to get away with using the carpool lane.

[Christopher Hathaway]

Would it have been OK if that Arizonan woman had been driving with a newborn in the back?

As Horton the Elephant said" A person's a person, no matter how small", and I would add "no matter where he resides.

[Joe Long]

Wrongful use of the carpool lane...I'm pretty sure that's one of the Seven Deadlies, isn't it? I certainly hope all of the resources of the state are mobilized to protect civilization against that dread crime! Can't think of a single thing I'd rather have law enforcement doing.

[Douglas Ian]

Shortly after discovering that we were expecting our daughter (who arrived in October), my wife and I went to a mandatory pregnancy information class at our HMO hospital. The doublespeak was incredible. On the one hand there was language about testing for fetal health so that you could "make an informed decision" about allowing the "foetus" to continue its progress toward personhood. On the other hand, there was the telling phrase: "When your child is born, he or she is actually already nine months old."

[KM]

I'm sorry, which car commercial is this?