Ah, but "a woman's right to choose" makes a much more effective slogan than "the right of a mother to kill her own baby".
Some people might think I'm a bit of a prick to keep pointing this out, but a major component of shaping public opinion is The Choice Of Words. Which would you rather have, a segment of muscle tissue from an immature castrated bull? Or a nice, thick, juicy steak?
Inconveniently,
Ed Poor
On 10/30/03 5:51 PM, "tarquin" tarquin@planetunreal.com wrote:
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Ah, but "a woman's right to choose" makes a much more effective slogan than "the right of a mother to kill her own baby".
it's not a "baby" until it is born.
Please, please, let's not get into this here. It was bad enough that Poor felt obligated to be helpfully controvertial to make an obvious point about semantics. Don't make it worse by rising to the bait.
--- tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com wrote:
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Ah, but "a woman's right to choose" makes a much more effective
slogan
than "the right of a mother to kill her own baby".
it's not a "baby" until it is born.
I'm going to have to agree with both of you. It's not a baby yet because the state does not recognize it as a human being. (try applying for SSN Number or opening a bank account under an unborn baby's name).
So since it's not a baby, we could say: The 3-8 pounds of flesh that most likely will become a human being but is still technically just part of the woman's body.
Yes "the woman's right to choose" is a much better slogan.
Because her choice is not killing, but rather eliminating, or terminating, a process that is taking place in her own body.
Does a man get charged with a crime if he decides to castrate himself? It's his body, his choise, damaging or removing flesh which in most cases can produce a baby.
can a woman have her uterus surgically removed? It it has no baby in it?
Why should the state have this much say in what goes on inside someone's body? Where do we draw the line?
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