re: I’ve lost faith in the intelligence of this country

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A fetus and a born living human begin are 2 different things for frick sake.

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Are they?

Here's the Cambridge Dictionary Definition of the word "fetus": "a young human being or animal before birth, after the organs have started to develop."

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Are fetuses counted in the US census? Do fetuses pay taxes? Should fetuses get welfare? Do fetuses get to vote?

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Illegal immigrants don't qualify for those things either. Are they not human beings? Is it o.k. to kill them?

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If a woman has a miscarriage , does she get a man slaughter charge?

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Did she intentionally cause the miscarriage? Because if I cause her to miscarry, I can be charged with a crime.

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A fetus is a fetus . And human being is a human being .

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Clearly that's not true by definition (again, see above). "Fetus" is a word used to describe a human being in a certain stage of development, like "infant" or "adolescent."

What you're claiming is that because someone uses a specific term for a human being that denotes that human's developmental stage that he or she ceases to be a human, which is, of course, preposterous.

Secondly, the (obviously fallacious) argument that a fetus is not a human is not the argument that you started out with. This is a pivot.