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Postby Vindex Nation » Fri May 30, 2014 9:38 am

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Vindex Nation wrote:Or a group of people that fall under the same definition

Which abortion does not fall under.

Yes it does
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Postby Valendia » Fri May 30, 2014 9:39 am

Vindex Nation wrote:Or a group of people that fall under the same definition


Ah, no. Genocide has a specific meaning that in no way can be construed to apply to abortion.

Mass murder, maybe, but since there's no people being killed even that is highly specious.
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Postby Ashmoria » Fri May 30, 2014 9:41 am

Vindex Nation wrote:
Condunum wrote:Why not?

I asked you why they have that right. If you can't answer that simple question I will not be debating with you

because women are not slaves to reproduction.
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Postby Vindex Nation » Fri May 30, 2014 9:42 am

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Vindex Nation wrote:Or a group of people that fall under the same definition


Ah, no. Genocide has a specific meaning that in no way can be construed to apply to abortion.

Mass murder, maybe, but since there's no people being killed even that is highly specious.

No people being killed??? Are you a loon?, everytine there is an abortion the doctor kills someone.
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Postby Ashmoria » Fri May 30, 2014 9:43 am

Vindex Nation wrote:
Valendia wrote:
Ah, no. Genocide has a specific meaning that in no way can be construed to apply to abortion.

Mass murder, maybe, but since there's no people being killed even that is highly specious.

No people being killed??? Are you a loon?, everytine there is an abortion the doctor kills someone.

no.

you are not a person until you are born (and take your first breath)
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Postby Valendia » Fri May 30, 2014 9:43 am

Vindex Nation wrote:No people being killed??? Are you a loon?, everytine there is an abortion the doctor kills someone.


I'm not in the habit of calling nonsentient eukaryotic organisms 'people'.
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Postby Vindex Nation » Fri May 30, 2014 9:44 am

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Vindex Nation wrote:I asked you why they have that right. If you can't answer that simple question I will not be debating with you

because women are not slaves to reproduction.

Ok from that sentience I can tell you are only arrogant and a complete fool. What the hell is "slaves of reproduction" suppost to mean?
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Postby Valendia » Fri May 30, 2014 9:45 am

Vindex Nation wrote:Ok from that sentience I can tell you are only arrogant and a complete fool. What the hell is "slaves of reproduction" suppost to mean?


Having no choice over reproductive biology.
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Postby Ashmoria » Fri May 30, 2014 9:46 am

Vindex Nation wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:because women are not slaves to reproduction.

Ok from that sentience I can tell you are only arrogant and a complete fool. What the hell is "slaves of reproduction" suppost to mean?

it means that without the right to choose her life is not her own. at any time everything she has planned for her life and her family can be hijacked by an unwanted pregnancy that she can do nothing about. she is required to do the work of creating a new person from scratch for as long as that process continues naturally. she is a slave.
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Postby The Scientific States » Fri May 30, 2014 9:46 am

Vindex Nation wrote:
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Ah, no. Genocide has a specific meaning that in no way can be construed to apply to abortion.

Mass murder, maybe, but since there's no people being killed even that is highly specious.

No people being killed??? Are you a loon?, everytine there is an abortion the doctor kills someone.


You can't kill something that isn't alive.

Also, you seem to borderline flame people in most of your recent posts, calm down a bit.
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Postby Vindex Nation » Fri May 30, 2014 9:46 am

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Vindex Nation wrote:No people being killed??? Are you a loon?, everytine there is an abortion the doctor kills someone.


I'm not in the habit of calling nonsentient eukaryotic organisms 'people'.


So you are telling me that sonething none-human can just one day move there location and become a human? That is false. They are human from the moment of conception. They are not none human and then magically turn human. They are human from start to finish
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Postby Condunum » Fri May 30, 2014 9:46 am

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Condunum wrote:If you cannot produce a reason why a woman cannot control her own body, I have no problem with that.

Lol control her own body? The fetus is not her body it is someone elses.

It's in her body. If she wants it out, she can choose to terminate the pregnancy whenever. You are neither capable of nor justified in stopping anyone from this.
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Postby Vindex Nation » Fri May 30, 2014 9:47 am

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Vindex Nation wrote:No people being killed??? Are you a loon?, everytine there is an abortion the doctor kills someone.


You can't kill something that isn't alive.

Also, you seem to borderline flame people in most of your recent posts, calm down a bit.

It's alive.
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Postby Condunum » Fri May 30, 2014 9:47 am

Vindex Nation wrote:
Condunum wrote:Which abortion does not fall under.

Yes it does

Nope. Abortion is not carried out with the systematic intent of destroying the unborn.
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Postby Valendia » Fri May 30, 2014 9:47 am

Vindex Nation wrote:It's alive.


So are cows. Your point?
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Postby The Scientific States » Fri May 30, 2014 9:48 am

Vindex Nation wrote:
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You can't kill something that isn't alive.

Also, you seem to borderline flame people in most of your recent posts, calm down a bit.

It's alive.


Scientists and doctors disagree with you, as does basic biology. You can make the claim that they're alive all they want, but it's a medical fact that fetuses are not living, sentient beings.
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Postby Condunum » Fri May 30, 2014 9:48 am

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You can't kill something that isn't alive.

Also, you seem to borderline flame people in most of your recent posts, calm down a bit.

It's alive.

So is a Spider. Pragmatically, a spider's immediate worth is higher than that of a fetus. Do you consider killing spiders to be equal to that of a fetus?
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Postby Farnhamia » Fri May 30, 2014 9:49 am

Let's all calm down, shall we? The topic is not actually whether abortion is moral or right or murder, it is not whether abortion should be legal. The topic is:

Well, the Abortion movement started in 1973 (Hey Roski, stfu, you don't know what you are talking about, some random ass movement nine years after your damn point), meaning that instead of making babies, they were terminating pregnancies more.
This also means that there would be no baby boom after Vietnam as well. So now, you don't have enough people to replace the workforce of 78 MILLION people. That is why the economy is collapsing.
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Postby Degenerate Heart of HetRio » Fri May 30, 2014 9:49 am

The Scientific States wrote:Scientists and doctors disagree with you, as does basic biology. You can make the claim that they're alive all they want, but it's a medical fact that fetuses are not living.

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Postby Aeternabilis » Fri May 30, 2014 9:49 am

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Valendia wrote:
I'm not in the habit of calling nonsentient eukaryotic organisms 'people'.


So you are telling me that sonething none-human can just one day move there location and become a human? That is false. They are human from the moment of conception. They are not none human and then magically turn human. They are human from start to finish

For the first few weeks, a foetus is just a lump of cells that definitely aren't human.
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Postby Farnhamia » Fri May 30, 2014 9:50 am

And we'll just take a break for a few minutes so everyone can breathe deeply and remember what the topic is.

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Postby Vindex Nation » Fri May 30, 2014 10:01 am

Aeternabilis wrote:
Vindex Nation wrote:
So you are telling me that sonething none-human can just one day move there location and become a human? That is false. They are human from the moment of conception. They are not none human and then magically turn human. They are human from start to finish

For the first few weeks, a foetus is just a lump of cells that definitely aren't human.


The cells are human, and growing, and reproducing. It is living
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Postby Farnhamia » Fri May 30, 2014 10:30 am

Vindex Nation wrote:
Aeternabilis wrote:For the first few weeks, a foetus is just a lump of cells that definitely aren't human.


The cells are human, and growing, and reproducing. It is living

Did you not see my request that everyone return to the topic, which is the effect of abortion on the US economy?
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Postby Ashmoria » Fri May 30, 2014 10:35 am

im thinking that legal abortion and freely available birth control has been an amazing boon to the US economy because it frees up women to work outside the home. it greatly lowers the burden of unwanted children and disabled children. it lowers the long term crime rate and the general level of human misery.
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Postby Roski » Fri May 30, 2014 10:37 am

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Ah, no. Genocide has a specific meaning that in no way can be construed to apply to abortion.

Mass murder, maybe, but since there's no people being killed even that is highly specious.

No people being killed??? Are you a loon?, everytine there is an abortion the doctor kills someone.


Did you read his statement? Also, not really. Its a lump of cells with no other support than the mother until four months in.

it doesn't even have a heartbeat
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