Murdering a born 3-month old baby is pretty different from aborting a 3-month fetus, in my mind at least.
Murdering a born 3-month old baby is pretty different from aborting a 3-month fetus, in my mind at least.
Thank you darling.
It helps to call it a fetes actually. It's mankind's ways of dehumanizing the person, by not even calling 'it' a baby, thus reducing the dignity of the unborn child to a mere 'parasite' in a woman's womb.
i have yet to hear any pregnant mommy rubbing her tummy and goes, "aw my fetes is growing well", it has always been 'baby', 'child' and other common affectionate terms that one would call a born-kid.
It goes to show that mothers already consider these fetes as human-beings. I was talking to my pregnant colleague two days ago, and she talked about how her son moved about in the tummy, and she felt sorry for him having to bear with the small space he is confined within, and the need to push her tummy whenever he turns.
That's a child for goodness sake. Just because it requires the environment of the mother's womb does not make killing it not a 'murder'.
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It's fetus, not fetes.
Fetus is the correct term for that stage of development. Doesn't matter loving moms want to call the fetus in their womb baby, honey, sweetie, son. It's still a fetus. Some people call their pet 'baby' too.
On dehumansing a 'baby' by calling it a 'fetus', evil human has no intention doing so. Fetus comes from the Latin word which means offspring, bringing forth, hatching of young.
Anyway, it's all just a play of words depending of someone's belief. Pro-choicers will use more clinical term to describe it while pro-lifers will use more human term.
I'm mostly a Pro-lifer, but, campaign method like this turn me off
http://www.knowledgebase-script.com/...ticle-441.html
Last edited by kidd; 11-02-10 at 09:45 AM.
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I'm wondering why nobody 'bashed' me for hijacking the thread, turning it into an 'abortion' issue rather than what the article reports? lol
actually i'd always spelt it as foetus, but im trying to adopt to how most people spell and got it wrong instead.
i didn't claim that the word fetus, was invented to stop calling a baby a baby, nor am i trying to say foetus meant anything else; but that im trying to draw the point that people resort to using 'clinical terms' to make it sound more like a 'thing' rather than 'human'. Doesn't foetus sounded more rather devoid of affection?
i read the thread, if 'foetus' could speak, they might have said that. the reason why there are such campaigns out there is because humans have hardened their hearts, believing that foetus are incapable of emotions (or anything lacking of a true human), and hence less of a human than the rest of us. Seriously, even three-month-old babies hadn't particularly grown much in the spiritual/psychological/emotional/intellectual sense from the fetuses. Just a few more months older, and experienced being outside of the womb alive.
I'm a pro-lifer, I do not support abortion, nor the death sentence. Both are murder.
It's not so much of whether the person deserved it or not. It's a matter of 'thou shalt not kill'. But I'm only holding my own person accountable to this principle, I cannot force others (though I pray that the world has not become so violent they demand vengeance and blood to our fellow human beings for whatever reason) to take my stance in such matters.
There just isn't enough love, or empathy for others beyond ourselves to recognize that there is a problem when humans think its ok to kill.
Last edited by Lucre; 11-02-10 at 10:39 AM.
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