Democrats move toward greater abortion acceptance

[Loren Pechtel]

Abortion is murder. Period. Calling it "abortion acceptance" is just a way to make it sound more PC. Maybe we should rename a serial killer's murders to "murder acceptance" or "extremely late term abortion."

Would that make it any less than murder?

Murder is a legal term. It means illegal homicide. Since abortion is legal it cannot be murder.

Ah, but it is murder. Try kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach and see if the courts don't charge you for murder.

We can also see that when women are pregnant they say, "I'm pregnant with my baby!" They don't say, "I'm pregnant with a hunk of cells that means nothing right now"

One of the reasons behind Roe vs Wade was that the law never saw it that way at that time.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

You can rationalize anything. But the act itself is the ending of a human life. Child sacrifice was practiced in Carthage and Sparta. All rationalized. It's rather macabre that Democrats have moved from abortion: safe, legal, and rare to abortion: whoot! I got rid of that parasite so I can party! Celebrate!

Yes, it is quite stupid. Most real people aren't like that. Hell, almost half of women are pro-life never-mind being like the extremists on the pro-choice side.

Except it's not exactly unusual to see those "pro-life" women in abortion clinics. Wreck some slut's life, good. Wreck their own life, no way.

 

[Angra Mainyu]

Abortion is murder. Period. Calling it "abortion acceptance" is just a way to make it sound more PC. Maybe we should rename a serial killer's murders to "murder acceptance" or "extremely late term abortion."

Would that make it any less than murder?

Murder is a legal term. It means illegal homicide. Since abortion is legal it cannot be murder.

In the legal sense, 'murder' seems to have different meanings depending on jurisdictions. It does not mean 'illegal homicide' in any I can think of, as there are illegal homicides that are not murders but manslaughters. In some places, as B20 pointed out, it includes some abortions. So, legally it is sometimes murder, though usually not. However, that is not relevant to Half-life point, because he used the term 'murder' in a colloquial sense, not in a legal one.