"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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so, you are defending abortion in part because the child would die
anyway?

I am not of the opinion that a child dies in an abortion. I don't like
abortion, but I don't equate it to slitting the throat of a newborn.

(after all, making murder illegal doesn't get rid of murder).

Legalizing murder doesn't provide any benefit. But even if it did, we have
clear examples of legalized murder as well, right here in the US.
Ironically, the people who are generally most against abortion are the same
people most in favor of legalized murder.

Can you see the problem with that kind of reasoning?

What kind of reasoning? The kind of reasoning you falsely ascribe to me?

Ignoring for the moment the huge chasm between people like you who claim
that it's a "child" the moment the egg is fertilized and a larger group
of
people who don't feel that way, of course

I made no such claim.

Well perhaps you'd like to explain why you say abortion involves killing a
child then. What "child" is being killed, if not the fertilized egg?

Then why did you bring up abortion?

I didn't. CJ did. Foolishly, I believed we could stay focused on the
already off-topic discussion without getting mired in an impossible debate,
and responded to his reference to abortion.

Pete