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HarryStotle
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That would be because those of you who do want to use the word “person” do so as the criteria for deciding who should be allowed to live or not.HarryStotle:
I agree with you. Except when you use the term ‘human being’. Most people, myself included, would correlate human being with ‘person’. What a woman is carrying immediately after conception (and even before the pregnancy begins) is not a person.Freddy:
That argument also applies in reverse. Anyone who claims that support for abortion amounts to a mere right to choose is likewise being disingenuous with language.If y’all insist on calling people who are pro choice ‘pro abortion’ then you are closing the door to any sensible discussions on how to reduce the number of abortions. As long as you know that.
Abortion is the termination of the life of a human being. A proper or sensible discussion of that begins with the admission of what it is exactly.
It isn’t merely a “right to choose.” It is a right to choose to do something very specific - ending the life of a human being.
As long as we all know that then everyone is on the same page.
Why should “right to choose” be the agreed upon start of a discussion? Home field advantage? Right to choose gets to determine the rules? Why exactly?
It misses the fundamental reality that a human being is a human life that changes through time and that that life should be seen wholistically and not sliced up in time. The you that is now conscious and capable of “person” things was the same human being in the womb of your mother. It is that human being that had the innate capacity to develop consciousness and the other traits you want to characterize as personhood, and only now have because your mother had the foresight to know that abortion would have ended YOUR existence as a human being cum person.