How to shut up people who are against abortion

[rexbeccarox]

Right. Because a fetus is not yet a person or human or baby or whatever semantic term you choose.

But you agree that it is a body of its own?

By the way, I'm pro-abortion.

No I don't. It's a body of the person housing it until it's born.

[Gilgamesh]

No I don't. It's a body of the person housing it until it's born.

Oh.

Either way, even if you agreed it was a body of its own, I'm still with you. We shouldn't have control over other bodies... until that body is inside of someone, feeding off of them. Really, nobody is killing anything when an abortion is had; all it is is someone removing a body from someone else. It dies of natural causes =o

[catfish]

So, it's not a human (yet) and it's actually the body of the mother?

Assuming that you're speaking of a human fetus, it appears that you have created a paradox, no?

[rexbeccarox]

Only if you think words are more important than their meaning.

[NoraBrimstone]

[catfish]

Only if you think words are more important than their meaning.

If you didn't mean what you said, why even bother posting?

Is a human fetus an individual human lifeform?

[rexbeccarox]

No, it's not individual. It isn't individual until it's born.

[festive1]

Second from left?

[catfish]

No, it's not individual. It isn't individual until it's born.

From: http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Individual

Individual
Definition

noun, plural: individuals

(1) Any distinct person, object, or concept within a collection.

(2) A single, separate organism (animal or plant) distinguished from others of a same kind.


adjective

(1) Of, relating to, or being an individual, e.g. pertaining to a single person, animal or thing as opposed to more than one within a unity (or a collection).

(2) By a single person, organism, or thing.

(3) Being a distinct entity.

(4) Pertaining to only one person.

[NoraBrimstone]

Second from left?

Nope, second from left is a Chicken. :P