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jazzbird said:So you don't believe that it is a person from the very beginning? Just wanting to clarify.
Thanks. It sounded like you were saying it wasn't a person until after the first trimester.mark kennedy said:I believe that it is a person within hours, thats why the hormone is secreted within hours. Just wanted to clarify!
transientlife said:Just curious for those who are prolife...are any of you for the death penalty?
transientlife said:I'm prochoice (but I dont think abortion is the way to go) but I ride the fence on the death penalty issue...I am just curious to see the different viewpoints from the prolifers...
transientlife said:Just curious for those who are prolife...are any of you for the death penalty?
I think the applicable analogy is that someone leaves a baby on your doorstep in a blizzard. you cannot get the child to anyone else for the next few weeks. Do you leave it to die outside simply because it was forced on you?
I'm going to assume you're refering to my post #94 here since you are talking about an analogy.Mylinkay Asdara said:No, it doesn't. But it's till a bad analogy, and nothing remotely like being raped and getting pregnant, because - though I didn't bother to mention it, assuming it would be obvious - there's in addition to all in my previous post the trauma of having been forced to have sex (FORCED, not being flippant, not being careless, being FORCED) and depending on the age of the expectant 'mother' that's a HUGE burden in itself without the pregnancy to add to it.
Mylinkay Asdara said:No, it doesn't. But it's till a bad analogy, and nothing remotely like being raped and getting pregnant, because - though I didn't bother to mention it, assuming it would be obvious - there's in addition to all in my previous post the trauma of having been forced to have sex (FORCED, not being flippant, not being careless, being FORCED) and depending on the age of the expectant 'mother' that's a HUGE burden in itself without the pregnancy to add to it.
Again, you're saying because the child reminds you of something that happened you can murder him/her. Under that same logic you can murder your husband if he wasn't there to help you and that will remind you of the rape, you can murder your neighbor who was home but didnt "notice" anything and that reminds you of the rape, etc...Mylinkay Asdara said:Well, despite the insistance of many here, we have still not established that it is in fact murder. Also, children - in cases of most courts - are not considered capbable of being responsible for murder until a certian age (and even then only the most overt acts of actually pre-meditating and bringing a gun to school will get a child charged as an adult) not to mention, most children - such as myself - don't get a real 'say' in the matter. The parents tell them what they're going to do and they're more or less powerless to do otherwise. Scared children listen to their parents on these issues, i know I did.
Losing a loved one is not like being raped. nothing you can say is like being raped as a child. It is probably the most innerself destroying event that can ever occur in a child's life. I think you underestimate the significant psycological damage that results from being raped hugely.
gladiatrix said:But then it doesn't quite stir the emotions to use the correct terminology now does it?
gladiatrix said:I guess that is why Joe Scheidler and other leaders of your movement are so into the Use of Inflammatory Rhetoric (Chap. 47-Closed! 99 Ways to Stop Abortion). Then this lot has the profound hypocrisy to try and claim they "don't advocate violence" when that sort of language breeds nothing but violence! You will just have to understand when I find your disclaimers that you don't agree with them a bit disingenuous (Scheidler et al are the LEADERS of your movment, if you don't agree with sort of tack then why do you tolerate them and why are books like his sold on nearly every anti-choicer site with an on-line bookstore?)
This is in response to your accusations that I and all pro-lifers are out to punish all who are involved in abortion by any means necessary. You equate me with those who want to bomb clinics, scream "baby killer" at women walking into the buildings, harrass children of abortion doctors, and on and on and on. What I am asking is that you do not associate me with the small group of fanatics who go to far. You see us all as one homogenous group of hate-mongerers, don't you? You need to learn how to deal with your prejudice and start listening to people as individuals.you are equating the horrible hateful words and actions of a small group of "anti-choicers" to all of us. Let me tell you that I find those people despicable.
Use Inflammatory Rhetoric
As a former journalism instructor of the "old school" of objective reporting, I have always believed in using accurate, factual descriptions and definitions. That is why abortion is referred to throughout this book as "killing," and why the unborn child is called a "baby," and why a pregnant woman or girl is called a "mother." These are accurate, on-target words for the reality of what we are describing.
But to the abortionists, these are all examples of "inflammatory rhetoric." The abortionists prefer to disguise the reality of what they are engaged in by using vague, evasive words and phrases. They have to mask the monstrosity of abortion. They refer to the child as "fetal tissue" or merely the "P.O.C" (product of conception). It does not sound as barbaric, they reason, to remove fetal tissue, as it does to dismember a live human baby. It is easier to "interrupt" a "problem pregnancy" than it is to "kill" a new human life.
Abortionists thrive on such euphemisms and weasel words. Like things that creep around in the dark, they hate to have the bright light of truth shine on their activities. Many chafe at being called "abortionists," even though they may spend the greater part of their medical "practice" cutting up, salting out, or otherwise destroying human life.
Many abortionists are embarrassed to admit their involvement in abortion, and they wish to keep that phase of their practice quiet. It is important for pro-life activists to take every opportunity to broadcast the fact that Dr. So-and-So violates his oath to protect life. It is important to associate them in the public eye with their profession.
Samples of other "inflammatory rhetoric" that pro-lifers must use at appropriate times to counter pro-abortion jargon are "holocaust," for Americas abortion culture, "abortuary" or "death camp," to describe the abortion clinic, "abortifacient," for pills and IUDs, "fornication," for sex outside marriage, "adultery," for "having an affair."
Inflammatory rhetoric must be used with discretion.Do not always use the strongest terms or you will dilute their force when they are most needed. Inflammatory rhetoric is best used for emphasis. Other accurate but less descriptive terms should be used in most discourse, interviews, talks, and writing. A constant litany of inflammatory terms distracts an audience from the main point of a talk. It may lead them to believe anger and revenge motivate the speaker.
The abortionists consider nearly any reference to reality of abortion, pregnancy, and reproduction that does not fit their description as "inflammatory," just as they regard nearly any form of pro-life activity as "harassment" or "terrorism."
But then, people who kill babies for living are not going to be particularly accurate in describing their trade, or our efforts to shut down that industry.
This author has been struck, spit on, pushed, and received innumerable death threats, warnings, insults, and crank calls; he has had his sight damaged, tires slashed, office windows cut with glasscutters and broken with rocks, his office painted with roofing tar and his home vandalized. Nearly all pro-life activist leaders can cite a similar list of malicious acts. Some pro-life offices have been fire-bombed. Pro-life pickets and counselors have had buckets of water thrown on them, have had cars driven toward them at high speeds, have been struck by these cars and with clubs by clinic guards. We have almost all been subject to a variety of insults and injuries. Few of these incidents ever get reported, since many police departments are reluctant to acknowledge that they happened. There have been very few arrests of abortionists made, and even fewer guilty verdicts handed down.
Gladiatrix said:When you see the problem, you try to skam us with the "uniqueness" argument. The fact remains that IF I made a hundred clones of the person from whom the appendix came, using the nucleus from a single cell from that appendix for each clone, each one would be nothing more than an IDENTICAL TWIN of the donor. Again are you really going to try to tell me that these people aren't also unique human beings, JUST because their DNA is identical?
Justaman said:The exact same thing could be said of you everytime you have your period and you didn't go out and get inseminated. By not doing that, you let that potential human die. Each egg is a specific individual, a brother or sister to the others. When you lose that egg in menstruation, you murder the chance for the human who would have grown from that egg to ever exist. You slay a brother or sister to the others. The personality and identity of the human who could have been will now never exist.
Is inaction a good enough excuse to commit these monthly slaughters? You do realise that each of those eggs would have grown to be a different human right? How can you live with yourself?
holodoctor1 said:If you think it is an unborn child, you must think of everything that has the potential for life. If this is true, then every sperm that doesn't make contact with an egg is killing unborn children.
Mylinkay Asdara said:I'm pro-choice, all kinds of choice. It's a choice to murder someone - now it may not be a moral choice, but it is a choice. It's a choice to have an abortion - again, moral or no it's a choice that should be available because having the freedom of choice doesn't mean much if you don't have options to choose from.
Look, we can go roundy round all day. I frankly don't understand why you're all hyped up - as Christians don't you believe that the babies soul goes to Heaven immediately? So what's the issue? That they didn't get to 'live' on earth? A lot of babies who get aborted wouldn't have anything resembling what you and I would consider a 'good' lives.
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