re: #120 goddamnedfrank

Strictly speaking it is. Maybe that’s dickish to say but the sooner people come to accept that we can move on to the fact that Ryan and the pro-lifers are engaging in a bait and switch argument, and you’re falling for it. They want to talk about when “life” begins because it gets people off of the real crux of the issue, when personhood begins. Ryan is replacing an inherently complex and nuanced discussion about what constitutes sentience with his own simplistic argument over “life” precisely because self awareness isn’t concomitant with conception.

I’m not sure what I’m falling for. Ryan and the other pro lifers want to ban abortion because their religions tell them that a fertilized egg is a human being and that a woman is simply an ambulatory incubator.