Originally posted by plawrence:
Let's wait for it to be born and be a baby or, at the very least, be viable outside of the womb, before we start calling it a baby...Arguing about "when life begins" does not "trivialize" or "rationalize" the subject.
...Just because you believe something to be so does not make it so...I absolutely respect your opinion 100% as well as your right to have it and express it, of course, but that's all that it is: your opinion.
There are people who don't quite see it exactly the way that you do.
Not calling "it" a baby and saying "it" is just another part of a woman's body is just another way to either deny one's self the guilt, or again, rationalize/justify killing a baby.
I also respect your right to express your opinion 100%, etc. But do you not know that
I know there are those who disagree with me? Likewise, do you know there are those who disagree with you? What's that to do with anything? I get the distinct feeling that it's "okay to express an opinion" as long as it's in line with the left way of thinking. The right states anything and we're accused of being judgmental, self-righteous, etc., etc., etc. And please, plaw, don't tell me the opinion of a man who's pro-life doesn't amount to a hill of beans, or at least for those of us who have gone through it. I may not have gone through what my girlfriend back then did
physically, but I have emotionally, and for decades now.
To placate you, let me say
in my opinion that the murder of babies is rationalized like it is because mankind knows deep down it is just plain
wrong. There are exceptions, such as those with seared consciences who care about nothing except their own appetites. Otherwise, "fetus," "tissue," etc., are just other terms we've adopted in this idiot age of PC semantics to make ourselves feel better about it.
Have you never wondered why so many pro-abortion/pro-choice (which is the same thing anyway) people get all hot and bothered at pro-lifers who protest by holding up pictures of aborted babies? If "it" is just "tissue," then why do they get all up-in-arms? Because abortion is
wrong, and they bloody well know it is.
As far as the odds concerning "what" will be birthed after 9 months, I wasn't referring to natural miscarriages. My point was that "it" is a human being the moment the sperm hits the egg and will, in all likelihood, grow to at least childhood if nature is allowed to take its course. Moreover, you can't convince anyone but a clueless simpleton that out of the thousands of babies slain daily, most of them would not have grown into a healthy human being.
