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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something along the lines of

"Terrorists killed X number of people on 9-11; abortionists kill X unborn babies everyday."

This was on the car of a US diplomat overseas.[/quote]

Not sure what's wrong with that.[b] It's true[/b]; that's just a matter of statistics.[/quote]

Um, except it's not "true." "True" would be something factually irrefutable. However, it is not factually irrefutable that abortionists (what is an "abortionist," anyway? Is it a woman carrying a fetus or the doctor performing the abortion?) "kill" babies. It's entirely your opinion that what I view as terminating a non-person you view as "killing" someone. The idea that you'd equate the two (and equate either these women or doctors to terrorists) only makes smart people question your capacity for comprehending reality versus fantasy. 
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Courious here. At what moment does your non-person fetus turn into a person?[/quote]

That opens up a huge can of worms, and it doesn't necessarily go in favor of anti-abortion activists.

"Turning into a person" is a process, not a moment. We put the legal concept of personhood on a fetus at birth, when it goes from "fetus" to "baby."

The point at which we should consider a living being with human DNA a person is otherwise debatable.

Some argue for viability - ie. the point at which it can be removed from the womb and live.

A few argue that a baby isn't a person until sometime in the first year. It doesn't have a fully functioning brain and is considerably less sentient and cognizant that a dog or cat. Peter Singer, in particular, argues that euthanizing severely disabled newborn babies is completely ethical, because they are not people.

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