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Nirvana_Nut85 said:
akuma587 said:
Final-Fan said:
Nirvana_Nut85 said:
Pro Life and I'd like to quote something that I found very interesting while reading The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul

"People ask an expectant mother how her baby is doing. They do not ask her how her fetus is doing, or her blob of tissue, or her parasite. But that is what her baby becomes as soon as the child is declared unwanted. In both cases, we try to make human life into something less than human, simply according to our will."
(A) Baby is a more natural word for most people to use in ordinary conversation

(B) This is not any kind of valid argument for the pro-life position, only a blatant stab at emotion
Well said.
Well said....not really. Try reading over his statement again and you'll find it does make sense, and is not a stab at emotion. It's a very logical way of putting it. How can one justify what form of life isn't important? In an abortion what alot of people don't seem to fully understand is that it's an actualy living human being inside the mother. So therefore to terminate the pregnancy they do have to kill the unborn child.

I just personally find it appualling how people can act as if its nothing and that because the child is unborn its life is meaningless, but thats just my opinion.

His argument is just about semantics.  Whether people ask a pregnant woman abot her "baby" or her "fetus" is utterly irrelevant to the factual question of whether the thing in question is a person or not.  That is the debate worth having, not ranting about people making incorrect statements about a human body's stage of development.  

The quote is just pro-life propaganda about what he sees as pro-choice propaganda, and not any actual argument about abortion at all. 



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