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Its literally what they are, they're not aliens, they're people.
by exabrial 2y ago
Its literally what they are, they're not aliens, they're people.
- mint2 2y agoThey are fetuses, the term unborn baby was until recently has been almost exclusively used by anti abortion advocates. Perhaps they are becoming successful at normalizing the terminology.
- khaki54 2y agoGreat but "infant in the womb" and similar phrases go all the way back to antiquity. If anything, dehumanizing the fetus is a recent invention by pro abortion advocates.
- consteval 2y agoI mean, define recent. Abortion has been protected for many many decades in the US. Anti-abortion advocacy is rather new, and old-timey at the same time. The arguments more or less haven't changed since the 50s. For the majority of the time since Roe nobody really cared - the American right shifted to other divisive politics. In the past 10 years they shifted back. Not sure why, maybe they felt as a party it was a strategic entry point into the topic of 14th amendment privacy as a whole. Certainly, that seems plausible when individuals such as Justice Thomas have alluded to taking aim at other protections of that nature such as Loving and Obergefell.
- mint2 2y agoWell in antiquity one could also cast unwanted babies in the river so I prefer debating based on modern standards and terminology. And a lot of cultures celebrate like the 100th day of life with some ceremony because so many babies died before that in antiquity. Humanizing babies, and I mean actual babies, is also modern. Heck, until recently people could be treated as property so even humanizing humans was a recent turn of events. Shall we judge things by antiquity standards, is that really smart?