Abortion Debate

OnyxCougar · 02-15-2005, 02:24 PM

You're right, some people may see it as merely a "bit of tissue".

But the procedure itself doesn't change. It doesn't matter what you call the life inside that no longer exists after the abortion is performed.

IMO, many (obviously not all) people DO try to couch it in terms to make themselves feel better.

jinx · 02-15-2005, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by OnyxCougar

IMO, many (obviously not all) people DO try to couch it in terms to make themselves feel better.

Where as you couch it in term to make yourself feel worse? It's more ok to have an abortion if you beat yourself up a lot afterwards? I don't get it.

lookout123 · 02-15-2005, 02:51 PM

i'm a guy so i should just learn my lesson and stay out of this, but i'm also a cellarite and that requires me to stick my nose in. er, something to that effect.

i think what OC is getting at is that what bothers her is when people use euphamisms to minimalize the importance of their decision.

i understand that because i feel the same way when listening to military members talk about the experiences they've had in "eliminating enemy combatants". that one busts my chaps. when we pull the trigger, we end lives. we kill people. we destroy families. if you can't do your job without having to depersonalize it with euphamisms, you shouldn't be a trigger puller.

from my perspective, it is ending a life. a woman has a legal right to do that, but euphamisms bug me.

02-15-2005, 02:24 PM	#1
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	You're right, some people may see it as merely a "bit of tissue". But the procedure itself doesn't change. It doesn't matter what you call the life inside that no longer exists after the abortion is performed. IMO, many (obviously not all) people DO try to couch it in terms to make themselves feel better. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

02-15-2005, 02:51 PM	#3
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	i'm a guy so i should just learn my lesson and stay out of this, but i'm also a cellarite and that requires me to stick my nose in. er, something to that effect. i think what OC is getting at is that what bothers her is when people use euphamisms to minimalize the importance of their decision. i understand that because i feel the same way when listening to military members talk about the experiences they've had in "eliminating enemy combatants". that one busts my chaps. when we pull the trigger, we end lives. we kill people. we destroy families. if you can't do your job without having to depersonalize it with euphamisms, you shouldn't be a trigger puller. from my perspective, it is ending a life. a woman has a legal right to do that, but euphamisms bug me. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

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