re: Lets Talk Politics

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Well, it is

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Agree to disagree

Medically, scientifically, a fetus and a baby are distinctly different to a certain point. The lines become more blurred that farther into pregnancy you get.

Of course a 36 week old fetus is effectively the same thing as a baby. It can function as a baby in every way outside the womb. A 24 week old fetus? It can survive with highly advanced medical care but cannot live outside the mother naturally. A 12 week fetus? Objectively different on a physiological, anatomical and biochemical level. Such a fetus lacks even basic mammalian consciousness.

So I would agree that a late term abortion could be called murder, and in fact it IS called murder in every state. I disagree that we cannot differentiate at any point and frankly such an absurd position hurts to pro-life movement.

Abortion is an awful practice that exists largely to propagate a lack of personal responsibility, but it's just not the same thing as stabbing a toddler to death.