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Originally Posted by Diuretic
The introduction of vivid descriptions of the procedure doesn't illuminate the debate. The only light is from the flames.
I could troll through a series of handbooks on surgical procedures and describe them in vivid detail and have the average reader reaching for a bucket in which to vomit. Yet each of those procedures, which would cause revulsion because I could describe them so that the reader's mind would develop a mental multimedia presentation, would be designed to restore the patient to health. So what's the point of describing abortion procedures? It's merely to bludgeon your opponent. It's pure propaganda and a logical fallacy, using emotive words.
I could do the same in a debate on the death penalty. I hope I never do though.
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I'll agree, all surgery will make most of us vomit, otherwise more of us would be doctors or nurses. On the other hand, if you read about open heart surgery and the alternative of passing it by, which would you choose?
If the reasons for partial birth abortion is the 'health of the mother' which includes issues that are of the ilk of 'inconvenient timing' in the 8th month, seems like there should be some community standards.
Those standards seems to me to have been called into account with the SCOTUS ruling. The invite for 'life of the mother' argument was there, but not 'health of the mother' which has been stretched to accomodate the size 2 going up to a 6.