RE: Ohio bans doctors from performing Down Syndrome abortions
December 29, 2017 at 2:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2017 at 2:26 pm by Angrboda.)
(December 29, 2017 at 1:59 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: It seems to me, that many who get picky about these words, mostly want to de-humanize the subject, and I assume so it is easier to reconcile killing it. Would you have a problem, with it; if we just classified it, as a distinct human being, from that of the mother? I think that too much focus on either age or location just clouds the issue.
Politicization of the terms used occurs on both sides. In the same vein, pro-lifers use the terms "human being" and "baby" without acknowledging the very real differences that exist between what we normally refer to with these terms, and what the terms are being used to denote within this debate. Complaining about one side's politicization of the terms without acknowledging your own simply makes you a hypocrite.