> Babies are not babies until they are born. They’re fetuses.
This is a factual statement with accurate medical terminology.
We don’t call them meteorites until they hit the earth, either.
This is a factual statement with accurate medical terminology.
We don’t call them meteorites until they hit the earth, either.
Meteorites don't have that baggage.
Who here is doing the verbal slight of hand? The people using factual terms, or the people lying? This should be an easy one to answer.
(I'm pro-choice but think the "acksually they're fetuses" angle is fucking gross, both on an intellectually-honest debate level because it's semantic bullshit, and because it absolutely reads as a move toward dehumanization, and I hate to provide reasons for those kinds of accusations from pro-lifers to ring true)
I highly doubt anyone in your actual life has said this to you, or distilled the entire argument down to this point.
> because it's semantic bullshit
Obviously, semantics isn't "bullshit" because there's been a massive decades long debate over semantics, including millions and millions spent by the right to define the semantics.
I can concede that some people hear this debate and think they're under attack in a "culture war", which I'm really not sure what the solution to that is because semantics is important.