Abortion debate on YouTube

In this YouTube video, Stephen Fry talks about the role of language in dehumanizing the Jews during the Nazi reign in Germany. I feel that the same thing is done with regards to the abortion of babies. I made this point in the comments section and was criticised for it. Here is one of the debates I had.

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MrCuddlyable3                                                    No Michael James, you have learned nothing positive from Fry, only that language can be used to dehumanize selected people. Your anti-abortion agenda is to dehumanize those women who take abortion and their doctors as guilty murderers. A foetus is, despite your complaint, a "bundle of cells" during prenatal development. It is certainly not yet a human baby, and may never be. Stopping an unlucky process to save a person's future is different from the antisemitic murders of the Nazi holocaust. Michael James                                                                My agenda is to save the lives of innocent babies, not dehumanise women who have had an abortion or the doctors, so please don't put words into my mouth. What I am emphasising is that culture, through the use of language, dehumanises the life that is growing in the mother's womb to make abortion easier to do. If you respected human life from conception then maybe you would see those "bundle of cells" in a different light. That a pregnancy might be 'unlucky' is not valid ground for an abortion. MrCuddlyable3                                                    Michael you pretend to defend a baby where there is none. You are obviously a man who thinks abortion is easy, a zealot who wants to incite a culture split between innocence and murder-guilt. Your attempt to hijack the comment space to push your divisive agenda only exposes your inability to give compassion to a real woman. Your self-serving cant is opposed not by the vague "culture" that you accuse of disrespecting life but by those who want to help people living with painful choices Michael James                                                     You assume far too much of me. I am against abortion but it does not mean that I lack compassion for women who have abortions - it is wrong of you to jump to conclusions and label me as a uncompassionate zealot. I realise that many women are afraid and vulnerable when faced with an unwanted pregnancy and should not be judged if they choose abortion. What am I defending? Human life, something real. You call it 'a bundle of cells'. In that case you and I are a bundle of cells   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     There were a few other comments made by others but for certain reasons I cannot post them here.   Is abortion really the best we can offer women?

Pitch Black (film review)

Something of a sleeper hit when it was released in cinemas, Pitch Black is an above average sci-fi thriller about a group of humans crash landed on a desert planet inhabited by killer aliens that only come out to hunt at night. Matters are somewhat complicated with the presence of Riddick, a convict in the shackles of a bounty hunter. They are an interesting duo; a bad goodie pitted against a good baddie. Who do you trust more? Vin Diesel plays Riddick very well - as sociopathic killers go he's pretty cool. There are a few other interesting characters among the survivors, like the female member of the crashed spaceship intent on redemption. And then there are others who have 'cannon fodder' written across their foreheads. Just don't kill the good looking girl off too early. Apart from that, the plot is pretty straight forward: get off the planet without being torn limb from limb, and as a thriller it is satisfying and taut. 7.5/10