@Krumple,
Quote:Either the fetus dies or the mother dies. Take your pick.
Will you explain that Krumpie? Of the 50 million abortions since Roe/Wade how many involved that choice?
And it is an unborn baby. If you wish to employ technical terms for the kid why not use technical terms for the operation which conceived it? I understand the non-romantic approach but it should be employed consistently. Applying it to just the unborn born baby seems to me to objectify it. Make it a thing.
Copulation for example means a joining, To unite. If a termination ensues then it means there was no uniting. It was a deal.
One might even say a contract in which the third party is of no account. Like a price rigging deal where the buyer is of no account.
A speeding ticket hasn't even got a victim on the scene. It's only a putative victim. Are you pro-choice on speeding?
Is this a word game? Why not use pro-abortion? Pro-choice seems a bit coy. A euphemism. The unborn baby has no choice. How can a thing, a clump of cells, have a choice? The unborn baby is labelled in these ways for no other reason than to make its disposal easier on the eye. It is an unborn baby with who knows what potential.
And why have you not commented on whether a modern teenager might ask her parents whether they had considered terminating her. I think that in this climate of opinion it is impossible that teenagers would not think of the question. And if they don't ask then some degree of dishonesty has crept into the parent/child relationship. It wouldn't be much of a stretch for a teenager, or an adult, to ask their parents whether there was a sibling who was terminated. Or a few.
Would these obvious questions be asked? If they were asked would they be answered honestly when termination/s had taken place.And if they were answered honestly would it affect how the person saw herself and her relations with her parents?