# A Slightly DIFFERENT Abortion Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-slightly-different-abortion-question/630655>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 6, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-slightly-different-abortion-question/630655 "2012-08-06T20:47:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-slightly-different-abortion-question/630655/61 "2012-08-09T04:22:49Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Any responses that aren’t conspiracy theories about what people “really believe”?

Why should I accept what people say at face value, when their actions don’t fit their claims? I’m not interested in bending over backwards trying to pretend that a bunch of people are well-meaning-yet-misguided.

> [@BigT](#):
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> But the pro-life position still has its claim of murder.

No it doesn’t. Killing a mindless fetus is still killing a mindless _thing_ whether you call it “murder” or not. Calling it murder just creates a category of murder that is justified, and cheapens the term.

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-slightly-different-abortion-question/630655/62 "2012-08-09T05:20:08Z")

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WHOA! Please! No debating abortion, per se, in this thread!

I had a specific question in mind, and it’s pretty much been answered. I seriously beg of you all that the thread not just go down into the nitty of pro-this and anti-that.

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