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:One distinction attempts to make a baby not seem human, calling it a fetus. It was liberals and the godless who came up with the subtly nuanced language in the first place, to avoid saying the word "baby" when talking about procedures to kill it. Through such finely crafted mechanizations, over generations, people's perceptions are gradually turned. And that was the whole point. The toddler/teenager comparison is apples and oranges, for there is no doubt in anyones mind that both those terms apply to human beings. It is just more of a comfort to say "the ''fetus'' was sucked from the womb by a tube", than to say "the ''baby'' was sucked from the womb by a tube". The more we obscure language to make palitable what normally isn't, the more society as a whole loses. --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</font></sup> 16:56, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
::At the risk of offending you, sir, I have to disagree as a Doctor. A Fetus is a very different organism from a baby. If it were a baby, the medical profession would simply call it that. However, a life goes through many stages before birth and it gets confusing if we simply refer to all forms as a baby. therefore, there are several distinct characteristics that a lifeform goes through before the actual birth. The term was not invented by liberals, it was simply hijacked (please excuse the hyperbole) [[User:DrCB|DrCB]] 18:06, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
:::Sorry, Doctor, I was unaware that medical schools were now teaching students the motivations of those in your learned profession who "hijacked" the term "fetus"! However, I am old enough to remember a time before all the controversy, and the common term was aborted babies, not fetuses. But I have no doubt someone will come up with yet another explanation, to continue this argument ad-infinitum. And that I will not be a part of. Cheers! --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</font></sup> 19:11, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
::::Excuse me, sir. I went out of my way to phrase my response in a way that was neither condescending nor insulting. I'd ask that you have the common decency to response in kind. I pity you if you can not exercise common curtesy in debate. As for your point, nowhere in medical school did we learn mind reading or fortune telling. I simply stated and I stand by the assertation that the term fetus is a medical expression that represents one of many stages life goes through before birth. As for aborted babies, one could easily argue that those opposed to the practice picked a very harsh, and unpleasant way to decribe the practice. [[User:DrCB|DrCB]] 19:22, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
:::::Also, the characterization of a [[pharyngula]] state embryo as "human" is dubious at best. If you consider potentiality to be the benchmark of humanity - and thereby, any fetus is a human baby - technically, a sperm is a baby, too. That definition would confound the term's common usage.-[[User:DParker|DParker]] 19:38, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
Folks, move this nonsensical discussion and silly comments somewhere else, please. The biological absurdities (e.g., "a sperm is a baby, too"!) are not going to remain here. Thanks and Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 20:02, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
:One distinction attempts to make a baby not seem human, calling it a fetus. It was liberals and the godless who came up with the subtly nuanced language in the first place, to avoid saying the word "baby" when talking about procedures to kill it. Through such finely crafted mechanizations, over generations, people's perceptions are gradually turned. And that was the whole point. The toddler/teenager comparison is apples and oranges, for there is no doubt in anyones mind that both those terms apply to human beings. It is just more of a comfort to say "the ''fetus'' was sucked from the womb by a tube", than to say "the ''baby'' was sucked from the womb by a tube". The more we obscure language to make palitable what normally isn't, the more society as a whole loses. --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</font></sup> 16:56, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
::At the risk of offending you, sir, I have to disagree as a Doctor. A Fetus is a very different organism from a baby. If it were a baby, the medical profession would simply call it that. However, a life goes through many stages before birth and it gets confusing if we simply refer to all forms as a baby. therefore, there are several distinct characteristics that a lifeform goes through before the actual birth. The term was not invented by liberals, it was simply hijacked (please excuse the hyperbole) [[User:DrCB|DrCB]] 18:06, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
:::Sorry, Doctor, I was unaware that medical schools were now teaching students the motivations of those in your learned profession who "hijacked" the term "fetus"! However, I am old enough to remember a time before all the controversy, and the common term was aborted babies, not fetuses. But I have no doubt someone will come up with yet another explanation, to continue this argument ad-infinitum. And that I will not be a part of. Cheers! --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</font></sup> 19:11, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
::::Excuse me, sir. I went out of my way to phrase my response in a way that was neither condescending nor insulting. I'd ask that you have the common decency to response in kind. I pity you if you can not exercise common curtesy in debate. As for your point, nowhere in medical school did we learn mind reading or fortune telling. I simply stated and I stand by the assertation that the term fetus is a medical expression that represents one of many stages life goes through before birth. As for aborted babies, one could easily argue that those opposed to the practice picked a very harsh, and unpleasant way to decribe the practice. [[User:DrCB|DrCB]] 19:22, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
:::::Also, the characterization of a [[pharyngula]] state embryo as "human" is dubious at best. If you consider potentiality to be the benchmark of humanity - and thereby, any fetus is a human baby - technically, a sperm is a baby, too. That definition would confound the term's common usage.-[[User:DParker|DParker]] 19:38, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
Folks, move this nonsensical discussion and silly comments somewhere else, please. The biological absurdities (e.g., "a sperm is a baby, too"!) are not going to remain here. Thanks and Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 20:02, 31 March 2008 (EDT)