It’s just common sense, sitetest, that a pro-life supporter would understand what we’re discussing. It’s a person, so you can’t kill it without due process.
(I’m of the opinion that referring to a child as an “it” comes to us out of the German language in which the articles der/die/das are masculine/feminine/neuther. The gender of a child is neuter, so the correct nominative is “Das Kind”.
So is Madchen, girl, Das Madchen, and it still baffles me. (there’s probably a keystroke html for an umlaut, but I don’t know it.)
Dear xzins,
That’s nice.
I don’t think most folks would go along with prohibiting abortion by this path, especially if unilaterally imposed by the Executive.
I think that even many pro-lifers would be very uncomfortable with this approach because it feels a lot like mirror image of Roe.
Personally, I think it would do major damage to the cause, and cause a major constitutional crisis if imposed by the Executive. I’m iffier on the outcome if imposed by the courts (as if that’s going to happen, lol). I think it might work if imposed legislative, which in my view would be entirely constitutional. Nonetheless, I’m not sure it would go over well.
Interestingly, Rep. Ryan co-sponsored legislation that traveled along these lines.
But in my opinion, it would be disastrous for the Executive to do this.
Thus, since Gov. Romney is running for president, I think his view can be fairly interpreted from that perspective.
sitetest
Babies in the neuter gender - Don’t care from where it comes. I don’t refer to babies as “it.” From my point of view, it cedes something to the enemy.
Mädchen.
On a Mac, you press Option/Alt and U, then type the letter you want the umlaut to appear over - in this case “a”. Or you can pull up Character Viewer.
I imagine it would be similar on a PC.