[dirtboy]

The fact that people stoop to that tactic so quickly

Stooping? STOOPING? Lemme see, Hitler killed millions largely by declaring that non-Aryan groups were subhuman. And abortion, which has killed over 30 million in this country, was declared legal by declaring a fetus as something less than human. That's hardly stooping to make a point - sometimes such comparisons are quite apt.

[newgeezer]

I can only guess there's a whole lot of miscommunication going on between you two. Unlike biblewonk, I interpreted your point as being coldly logical, which is the sort of reply the original post called for.

Maybe the widely-different interpretations just illustrate how limited this medium can be.

[biblewonk]

If I were to make the argument, and I have before, that though a baby a couple of months from birth seems obviously a baby to me, a sperm is not. I'd be pretty offended by being compared to Hitler. I don't believe that the minute a sperm unites with an egg you have the same human dignity that belongs to a baby 2 months from being born. Many people do though.

Married couples use the pill which causes many conceived "could have been babies/egg sperm combinations/pick your favorite emotional buzz phrase" not to survive. Is this murder like a partial birth abortion? Not to me.