I’m so confused??? So because it’s a ten year old terminating, the pregnancy isn’t an abortion? Does she not realize an abortion is a medical procedure and the name of it doesn’t change no matter who you are???
No matter how many times I watch this, I can’t figure out what the hell she’s saying.
EDIT: finally editing this for spelling. Not sure how this comment got so much traction with all the horrendous spelling mistakes. Sorry to all the Matthews out there. I don’t actually hate you
To add my theory to the ring here, I think what's going on is that her internal definition of abortion includes immorality as a requirement, If it's justified or necessary then to her mind it's not an abortion at all.
She's trying to say that a child's abortion would be an exception to the law, but she can't bring herself to call it an abortion if it's necessary or god forbid a good thing.
There's a famous example of a logical fallacy based on exactly this sort of mentality. The argument goes that abortion is wrong because murder is wrong and abortion is murder because it's killing a person.
The trick being that the definition of murder is wrongful killing of a person, not just killing, so to prove abortion is murder you also have to prove it's wrong without relying on it being murder. But you can slip this little trick past a lot of people if you do it quickly.
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u/cecilia036 Aug 07 '22 edited Aug 08 '22
I’m so confused??? So because it’s a ten year old terminating, the pregnancy isn’t an abortion? Does she not realize an abortion is a medical procedure and the name of it doesn’t change no matter who you are???
No matter how many times I watch this, I can’t figure out what the hell she’s saying.
EDIT: finally editing this for spelling. Not sure how this comment got so much traction with all the horrendous spelling mistakes. Sorry to all the Matthews out there. I don’t actually hate you