Nobody believes abortion is murder

[The Grand Nudger]

Sigh, no dissonance is required. The reason that the language used is so specific is because the people who use it in their capacity as arbitrators of law take the whole thing very seriously. We can add a "hence", if it helps us to understand it, or if it helps us to discuss it. We can do this in the same way that the claimants in gay rights appeals call a law, on the books, and upheld by the courts "unlawful" when it is not. That doesn't mean the hence is there in the ruling. This can't be that difficult to understand?

Again, none of this is an anti-abortion argument, which is what I very distinctly remember Cat claiming to have. Something relevant, along these lines, that would support his argument. At this point, it's looking like it was just his exit route.