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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The rape thing is rhetorical but effective.

A person who doesn't support abortion for rape is a monster. Forcing a woman to incubate her rapist's baby is unthinkably cruel.

A person who does support such an abortion is a hypocrite. If abortion is murder, it doesn't matter how God's little unborn angel was conceived. [/quote]

Abortion is killing (that is literally the point), not murder. IMO a fetus doesn’t have personhood, and personhood is required for murder. [/quote]

I agree. But the people who want to limit a woman's reproductive rights have to do it under the rhetoric of abortion being murder. Any nuance on this point, and they are cooked.

And, by and large, opposition to abortion is a political ploy -- not some kind of a foundational truth. For non-Catholics, opposition to abortion is a more recent development than the Happy Meal. Catholics have opposed abortion for a couple hundred years. (Early on, I think they were o.k. with it prior to "the quickening" which is decently well correlated with the first trimester.) Protestants didn't discover that abortion was murder until sometime in the early 70s. [/quote]

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