On the radio today, Laura Ingraham had a Rock’Em, Sock’Em Robots fight with capitalism-advancer Nicholas Provenzo, who blogged that the smart money is all about aborting children with Down syndrome, and Sarah Palin’s decision to give birth to her Trig was “disturbing.” Provenzo wrote that Down syndrome kids are “marginally productive” and parents who have them are “essentially stranding the cost of their child’s life upon others.” Letting them live, he implied, was a “pernicious quest.” He concluded that Palin’s choice was summarized in the phrase “the worship of retardation.” How can we summarize the quotable lines that came from Provenzo’s mouth against pro-lifers and religious conservatives on the Ingraham show? Let’s make a list:

1, “Pet your little zygote, knock yourself out.” (That could be a T-shirt.)

2. Pro-lifers are “strangers to reason on this issue.”

3. Life begins “when you’re out the hatch, man.”

4. He did utterly define the moral relativism of the “right to choose,” meaning the right to choose that life begins whenever we say it does. If he lost his wife and fetus to a murderer, it would be a double murder only in that it was “our ambition” to carry the child to term.

5. When Laura brought up Augustine and Aquinas, Provenzo literally said “They’re not on the side of the angels on this one.” That’s funny talk from an atheist.