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To: soycd

“Of course there are people that consider MA pills as a technical means of abortion just like there are people that consider any means of birth control the same thing.”

I do not know of anyone who thinks condoms preventing pregnancy is the same as an abortion. I am sure a person could find someone who makes such claims in a Westboro Baptist-like group, or probably on the DU forums making straw man arguments, but only someone who is ignorant thinks stopping conception from happening is an abortion or that condoms work by killing fertilized eggs. There are many who think condom use is always wrong or usually wrong, but not murder.

“There is no correct answer.”

Not knowing the correct answer is different from one not existing. There is also a difference between not knowing and not wanting to know.

“it most likely is not going to be considered an abortion by most reasonable people”

Your moral position is based on fickle group opinion which is constantly changing.

The reaonable person argument is acceptable when debating the meaning of words. For example, if a lawsuit hinges on the meaning of a word or phrase used in a contract, what a reasonable person interprets it to mean is a good guideline for how to interpret it. But what constitutes a reasonable person becomes quite subjective when debating the actual morality of a decision or law.

There were millions of “reasonable people” who supported the Nazi holocaust until millions of other “reasonable people” put a stop to it.

I am not arguing that making the right and moral decision regarding “the pill” is an easy one. I am arguing that it causing abortions technically, literally and factually to be true. Yes, there is a correct answer to that.


63 posted on 08/24/2013 11:19:53 AM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: unlearner

Regardless of the “correct” answer, the difference between stopping an unwanted pregnancy within hours compared to weeks and months is clear as night and day.


64 posted on 08/24/2013 11:30:43 AM PDT by soycd
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