On 18/07/2006, at 3:40 AM, jdiebremse wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Abortion is the killing of an unborn child, plain and simple.
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. An unimplanted embryo
is not a pregnancy. Plain, and simple.
Not plain, and not simple. What word would you have me use then?
I'm guessing murder isn't it. So, what, then?
JDG - Not particularly amused by playing semantics...
You started the semantic game, by defining abortion contrary to most
peoples' usage, and saying "plain and simple".
You're making it axiomatic that a zygote is a living being. A full
human. Others disagree with this most basic premise, so is it any
wonder that there'll never be agreement or compromise?
See, if one doesn't think that it's a "child" until it's capable of
survival (around 22 weeks at best), then one's not going to see a pre-
implantation embryo as human, and there is no amount of insisting on
it being otherwise that'll change a thing.
If abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, and there is no
pregnancy, then it's not an abortion. IVF discards pre-implantation
embryos, but it creates humans too.
Charlie
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