[Mr. Silverback]

Do you get the feeling, as I do, that maybe she hasn't spent a lot of time thinking about this issue being preoccupied with foreign affairs and the WOT?

It's possible, but still no excuse. A woman her age should have figured out whether a baby is a baby.

[Lexinom]

Maybe she's trying to have it both ways - which (as you observed) is not possible. Either a person's a person no matter how small, or "poof!" the tissue magically becomes a person at [pick one: birth, second trimester, heart beating, brain activity, or any other gradual, scalar criteria].