One radio show’s disturbing abortion contest.

And you thought your local Morning Zoo was a cesspool.

Word has it that Howard Stern's radio contract only has about six months left to it; so he might be relegated to cable. But there's someone to take his place. Elliott in the Morning on D.C. 101 Radio provided a jarring wake up call last Tuesday morning. In response to the reports of a new abortion study that reveals more women are having repeat abortions, Elliot hosted a call-in contest for women who'd had the most abortions. Far from exploring the tragic nature of the act, Elliot laughed and joked with his callers as he commended them for their abortions.

Unfortunately, this probably won't fall under the interests of the Federal Communications Commission since, in the FCC's terms, it's neither obscene nor indecent. But listen to the stories of the callers from a recording of a nine-minute segment of Tuesday's show. If anything, they make the case against abortion even stronger. Despite — or perhaps because of — widespread access to contraception, they demonstrate the tendency to use abortion as an expensive contraceptive. So much for safe, legal, and rare.

It gets much worse.

Caller number four was Theresa. She was calling to talk about her "son's father's mother" and her abortions. After explaining that the now deceased woman had had ten abortions, one of which she performed upon herself — Elliot volunteered to give her a posthumous award — Theresa asked, "Is there any way that I can get a t-shirt?" Theresa, there are easier ways to get a t-shirt...

Interestingly, of the eight callers during this segment, four were men. One asked, "Hey, um, does me givin' one count?" Naturally, Elliot's interest was perked: "Are you a doctor?" The caller laughed, "No, I'm a dude. Just an average Joe." As he recounted the story, it had something to do with the girlfriend of a friend. Elliot replied, "Alright. Ok. No, no. There's part of me that wants to know this story but I think, I think, it's probably a bad idea." And they all laughed — a perfect setup for the next caller who identified himself as "K-dog."

K-dog: "I got all these people beat. Between my first wife and my second wife, uh, 16 [abortions]. And I got five kids." Elliot: "Are you lying just to get on the radio?" K-dog: "Naw. Swear to God." Elliot: "Oh. But wait a minute. You. That's very funny. You didn't personally get 16 women pregnant."... K-dog: "I got two women pregnant 16 times."

Now, with his five surviving children, that makes at least 21 pregnancies for K-dog, who finished the first part of the call by asking, "What's the prize? Is it a shop-vac?" When asked why he didn't use an apparently less expensive method of birth control like a condom, K-dog shrugged it off. After all, as Diane, the second host chimed in, "Insurance pays for it [abortion]."

America the beautiful.

Now, with his five surviving children, that makes at least 21 pregnancies for K-dog, who finished the first part of the call by asking, "What's the prize? Is it a shop-vac?" When asked why he didn't use an apparently less expensive method of birth control like a condom, K-dog shrugged it off. After all, as Diane, the second host chimed in, "Insurance pays for it [abortion]."

K-dog was followed by another man who had been responsible for eight abortions in ten years. He thought he'd gotten ripped-off since he'd had to pay $500 for each abortion rather than K-dog's approximate $300. Then Mrs. K-dog called in to laugh about her abortions. Turns out she also has four children who weren't aborted and her name, by the way, is Linda. She doesn't mind your knowing.

As I get older, I have more trouble with the Scholastic idea that sinners merely have a defective idea of what good is. They want to choose what is good, but are confused and believe that which is evil is good.

Yep, every day I have more trouble with that.