How is he using a fallacious argument exactly?
Can you explain logically why it shouldn't, or rather, why that even matters? It's like saying "does a baby count as a toddler". Maybe not, but that's not a justification to kill them just because they haven't yet reached a particular stage of development. And sure, maybe the baby won't ever reach the point where it's a toddler, maybe it'll die naturally of SIDS before that, but that's nature.
That's a relatively high bar to clear, you realize that, right?
Not only would newborns not count as sapient, even walking, babbling toddlers arguably wouldn't. Disabled people wouldn't either.
Setting arbitrary criteria for which innocent human lives are allowed to continue to exist and which are ended, especially when it's usually only a matter of time until said arbitrary criteria will inevitably be met anyway, is merely a component of the mental gymnastics necessary to justify atrocities like abortion.
NYT blatantly misrepresented the statistic then, I shouldn't be surprised since it is a liberal rag after all.
These terms aren't as rigid as you'd be led to believe. "Fetus" is largely used to sterilize the language around what "abortion" really is (killing a human). They call a baby a fetus from 8 weeks up until
birth, despite there being no significant biologically distinction between the baby just before birth and the baby immediately upon birth.
Fetus literally just means "offspring" in Latin but it's used to de
humanize the developing
human, which is what it is from
conception (its DNA is the same from then until death)
.
So yes, a fetus is effectively an infant/baby, it's just not "viable" up until a certain point (at which point it's
still referred to as a fetus anyway).
Only one of those things is absurd. Arguably animal life has value, but you can't argue all animal life has value but not human life. Vegans won't even drink milk and will cry if you crush the
eggs of an endangered species, yet cheer to kill babies, especially less developed ones.
At least meat eating pro-lifers are consistent in their view that human life is valuable, whereas pro-abortion vegans are walking contradictions.
One could try to shift the argument to the death penalty to try to frame pro-lifers as equally inconsistent, but that falls apart under scrutiny too (pro-life =/= "all life should be protected"; there's an obvious difference between an innocent baby and a criminal arguably deserving death, even if you disagree with the death penalty).
Yeah, because the baby wasn't alive 2 seconds prior to the time printed on a certificate, only boomer incels retards think that.
Here, I'll reply for you because you're a repetitious, unoriginal retard: "hAvE sEx".