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You are doing some serious projecting and I’m really baffled as to where it’s coming from.I'm guessing it stems from the semantic game you're simultaneously playing and claiming no part of.
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I don’t have any “approved terminology. I’m interested in the terminology that people use. Again, I said this earlier, you can use whatever terminology you want. What I’m also interested in is knowing whether or not you think that aborting that ______________ is taking a life?You're insisting that abortion is "taking a life" when you know very well that phrase is as loaded a term as those you are distancing yourself from.
When I turn off the vasopressors on a patient believed to have no cortical function whatsoever, at the request of the power of attorney, would you describe that as me "taking a life?" Or would you describe catching a fish for dinner as "taking a life?" I'm guessing no.
Abortion in the vast majority of cases prevents a potentially viable independent person from developing. I think everyone can agree on that, and doesn't involve loaded terms that are synonymous with human-specific homicide or murder.
I’m saying that I believe that it’s taking a life. I’ve also stated now numerous times that other people use different terms for what that is. I’m not playing a semantic game, I’m trying to be as clear as possible what my view is.
I see abortion as taking a life. I also see it as something that should remain LEGAL up to birth (and in some cases after).
I have stated this very clearly.
Someone asked me about a treating a tapeworm. I said it’s taking a life and I’d go ahead and killing the fucking tapeworm. It’s a life. So is that thing in the womb that’s being aborted. It’s a life. Call it whatever the hell you want. I call it a “life”.
What I’m asking is what other people consider it.
I have also said that this subject is messy. The implication of that (just so I’m being clear) is that I don’t think there really is a right answer here.
I started this thread saying the law passed in Alabama is stupid and harmful.
Are you people not even reading my fucking words?
Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.
- Chinese proverb