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>Abortion isn't murder Always struck me as a very Orwellian slogan.

• jkyle 11y ago
  No more Orweillian than "Carrots are not fish."
• juliangregorian 11y ago
  It's not though. A fetus is not a person, and the act is not unlawful. So abortion is logically not murder, and therefore no doublethink is involved.
  • pjkundert 11y ago
    There was a time the same reasoning worked for slaves. edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes "If any slave resists his master...correcting such a slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction...the master shall be free of all punishment...as if such accident never happened." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States ... a master could be held criminally liable for killing a slave only if the slave he killed was "completely submissive and under the master's absolute control." So, effectively, slaves were considered chattel, and legally dispatched if not submissive to the will of the owner. Much like a cow, not like a person. This historical fact is not really at question.
    • juliangregorian 11y ago
      Not true, it was never legal to kill slaves (in the US anyway).