Dillogic wrote:
Whilst I'm all for abortion too, but I still think a "fetus" is close enough to a "baby" that I couldn't call it anything negative in comparison to a child that's just been born or one that's close enough to be; both are parasites if you want to call one such but the other not. I'm technically a parasite to my mother, and I'm running at 31.
Semen ain't anything by itself. Eggs ain't anything either. But get them going together, and something resembling a baby comes from that, then it's as clear cut as I can see it.
It's creation of life.
Do people say it's not because it makes it easier on the people who go through with it? Well, if the pregnancy was unplanned, then said consenting adults (teenagers included) should have taken the proper care to not actually make a baby; calling it not a baby human is a nice way to feel better for yourself, but said fetus will be born into a human -- it's already set in motion. Killing sperm cells isn't going to. The same with eggs. Rape? No worries there as it's unplanned without choice.
Don't have any stake in the politics of this, but fetus turning into a born child is cause and effect. Both are utterly dependent on people to survive too.
people use language intentionally. words like "baby" and "human" and "life" are used as tools to try to soften people's minds so that abortion becomes a horrifying choice. words like "bundle of cells" and "embryo" and "foetus" are more neutral. but for people that have a thing growing inside of them that they want removed, it can be seen and spoken of as a parasite. i've seen that word used on this very forum, and i've heard it in real life. it's not rare or particularly shocking, except perhaps to the people want to preserve some sort of sanctity or dignity to the thing that is growing inside the uterus. if you use a certain word, that word will carry meaning as to your politics.
23 Jan 2013, 8:16 pm
