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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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 |
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
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
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