It died when you created a second thread on abortion, and when you assumed that a fetus/unborn (who never had a say into whether being brought into existence) could possibly be held to the same standard as a woman or an older girl.
You
are missing the point, then. It isn't
my belief that the unborn ought to be treated equally with human children and adults. This is the belief of those religious nutjobs who insist that a fetus (or embryo, or blastocyst) is "a human life" deserving of the protections and entitlements typically afforded to human beings. Abortion is wrong, these people say, because it entails the murder of a human being. Well, if fetuses are people too, and deserve equal treatment under the law, then by God let's give it to them! But of course Dr. Haig's research gives us pause: Fetuses have evolved mechanisms for satisfying themselves that would ravage or kill their mothers--and often do. This is some kind of assault. Biologically speaking, it is the price of pregnancy. Easy. Case closed. But if fetuses have this equal treatment under the law, then they are bound by the law like everyone else, and so their very existence is a crime.
Is this not absurd to you, or are you an example of a liberal who is way out of his depth in explaining
why he believes what he does? I do not suffer fools, which is why I hate dealing with liberals who are as shallow as anyone from the other side.
It's not satire; it's propoganda.
No. What I say is true, or at least I make every effort to see my words in that direction. What I say herein is rhetoric; it is satire; it is sincere disgust with the idiocy of the Religious Right; and genuine fascination with the scientific discoveries detailed in the news article at the top of this thread--which you either did not read or did not read critically. But propaganda it is not. Propaganda is not the way I operate.
This is liberal propaganda. Your clumsy use of the word has muddled its meaning; I wonder if you even could define it yourself. The only thing "absurd" going on here is that religious fundamentalists are walking this country backward in time.
And, Inspector, if you ever want to speak more knowledgeably than such generalizations as that, you will have to put your neurons to harder work.
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