Fetus is a great term that the eugenicists and other fruitcakes made up to soften it up and garner more support. After all, liberals are all about changing the language. It's not sodomy, it's homosexuality . It's not disliking homosexuality for Biblical reasons, it's homo(human) phobia . It's not murder, it's abortion.
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It's not union-suppressing laws; it's right-to-work .
It's not unabated capitalism; it's deregulated, free market .
It's not a violation of separation of church and state; it's the founding fathers' beliefs .
It's not "life begins at conception and ends at birth;" it's pro-life .
Tell me now about changing the language?
It's not a fact, it's a theory.
It's not Barack Obama, it's Barry Soetoro.
It's not Crusades, it's peacekeeping. No, wait, that's from Hellsing Abridged. Sorry, my bad.
After all, liberals are all about changing the language.
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It's not disliking homosexuality for Biblical reasons, it's homo(human) phobia.
"Homo" is Greek, not Latin. Et lacrimatus est Jesus.
Fetus is a made up word, just like every other word. The difference here is that the word existed LONG before abortion was ever even considered to be legalized. It's what that stage of development was called. And it was no more invented to garner support for a political point than the term "adult" was invented so people could be sent to war.
It's not sodomy, it's homosexuality
No, those are two different things. Homosexuality is an attraction to the same gender. Sodomy is a sex act. One that straight people often do and gay people don't necessarily do.
It's not disliking homosexuality for Biblical reasons, it's homo(human) phobia
Hating homosexuals IS homophobia. And I'd say it's a misnomer expect I strongly suspect much of the hatred does come from fear. Oh, and homo in Greek means "same". Unless you think "homophone" means "human sound".
It's not murder, it's abortion.
Murder is a legal concept that designates a type of killing. It usually involves taking the life of a sapient human being (though if we discover other sapient beings in the universe I could easily see this getting extended to them, after we murder and torture millions of them first of course because that's apparently how we do things). Fetuses are not sapient. Hell, they're not even sentient when most abortions occur.
"... it's homo(human) phobia ."
Actually, that's not what "homo" means. The "homo" in "homosexual" means "same". So, if you want to play your word games, then what you're demonstrating is that homophobes are afraid of "sameness", which really means they are all gay themselves.
"The "homo" in "homosexual" means "same"."
Yeah, because it's Greek. While the "homo" in terms like "homo sapiens" is Latin and means "human being."
For any fundies who think referring to various human species as "homo [something]" is "pro-gay propaganda! (And God HATES it!!)"
A fetus is not a person. It doesn't have friends, has no job, no personality. It doesn't cook, clean, laugh, smile, watch TV, or go shopping. It's a cluster of cells and sometimes the woman who is carrying it hopes that it will grow into a child, sometimes not, particularly if she doesn't feel like she can take care of it properly. Sometimes her body aborts the fetus before it can grow into a child, you may have heard of the term "stillborn."
The lesson endeth here.
@Goomy pls
ATTACK OF THE 50 FT. TERROR BABY!!!!
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BE SURE NOT TO STAND UNDER HIM WHEN HE HAS TO "GO!"
LOL! Sorry, Goomy, I couldn't help myself!
(Not to be confused with 'Terror Babe', there was an old 50's B-Movie about that!)
Fetus is merely one of the stages of animal development, silly. First there's the zygote, then the morula, then the bastocyst, then the embryo, then the fetus and then, when it's viable outside the womb, the baby.
Liberals are all about freedoms, hence the name. The language changes all the time, with or without Liberals. With your reasoning, homosexuality is human sexuality , silly.
The sin of Sodom was inhospitality, arrogance, refusal to help the poor and sick. Calling homosexuality "sodomy" IS the changing of language, silly. Homo in this case means "same".
Abortion was never murder, it was always seen as something apart from murder, which is the killing of a living, breathing human.
You are a moron.
Fetus is the common phrase for all mammals after the embryo stage but before birth. Been used forever.
Sodomy in fact has little to do with homosexuality. It refers to all sex acts that are out of the norm. Oral, anal, whatever. In fact, state laws against oral sex (no matter what the gender of the partners) were often called anti-sodomy laws.
Abortion isn't murder. It is a constitutional right.
And you're still a moron.
Welcome to the land of language and politics. Here's a wheeze, lets get our mirror out:
"Baby is a great term for fetuses that the 'pro-lifers' and other fruitcakes made up to justify their position and garner more support. After all, conservatives are all about changing the language. It's not homosexuality, it's sodomy. It's not homophobia, its disliking homosexuality for Biblical reasons. It's not abortion, it's murder."
What fun! Now piss off and come back when you have a proper argument (and yes, you do have a few because I have used them myself in relation to this debate)
There are defining factors that separate every term pairing you played. What's more, YOU KNOW THAT.
While we at this point, I'll make it known that I'm totally fed up with this attempt to pretend Christianity invented or controls the English language.
YOU DON'T!
It's not created or controlled by you losers. There's some words unique to your religion and fostered in such, not one of your examples are sourced from there.
Liberals are MUCH, MUCH more interested in keeping word definitions pure and solidly maintained. Religions continually demonize variations of words and seek to confuse application as well.
liberals are all about changing the language
Oh, oh. What did I just hear? Was it a big explosion at the mall? Geeze, I hope it wasn't "Irony Meters R Us", again.
Really? Do they REALLY believe that "fetus" is a slur that was made up in an effort to present abortion as more socially acceptable? Even the dumbest, dumb-fuck pro-liar can't actually buy this... Well, okay. No. Knowing how crazy the anti-abortion zealots are, they probably do...
Fetus, homosexuality, and abortion are all terms that have been in usage for a long, long time. Abortion was not ever called murder. And "disliking homosexuality for Biblical reasons" was still homophobia, regardless.
If people who were against abortion were really "pro-life", they'd be campaigning for sex education and easier access to birth control, and would want easier access to pre- and post-natal care, food stamps and Medicaid to assure the health of the baby when the mother is financially unable to support it. But the pro-lifers are against these things, too. They're not pro-life; they're pro-celibacy, and are willing to use a living baby as deterrent and punishment for the mother's sexual "sin".
Homosexuality and sodomy are not the same thing. Sodomy is any non-vaginal sex, gay or straight. And a person can be a homosexual (sexually attracted to the same sex) even if they're celibate.
Homophobia is based on the Greek, "homos" (same), not the Latin "homo" (man).
It's not demanding long overdue equal rights, it's an agenda to force all men everywhere to be homosexuals .
It's not my personal biases and biggotry, it's god's will .
It's not something I made up in the shower this morning, it's evidence .
It's not something I drew with crayons, it's my PhD .
It's not abuse, it's loving correction.
It's not misogyny, it's protecting womanhood.
It's not torture, it's enhanced interrogation.
Confused?
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