tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789751063280553443.post8863074163768948303..comments2023-04-30T03:40:47.159-05:00Comments on TheStruggle: AbortionTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16281597652679210050noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789751063280553443.post-942158963075506612011-02-13T07:02:51.107-06:002011-02-13T07:02:51.107-06:00Well, I followed your request and read your post.
...Well, I followed your request and read your post.<br />Here are some problems:<br />1st there is your whole attempt to discuss the matter via dictionary definitions. There's a problem here: Although dictionary definitions are useful when people have to agree on definitions first, they are pretty useless in making a point in a discussion. You can go for a dictionary "hopping" where you go from one near-synonym to another one to another one until you end up with a words that's something completely different.<br />In short, you'Re arguing semantics when the debate is esentially about human rights. For you, the fetus is a full human being and therefore entitled to human rights which are in your opinion greater than that of the woman (what is she? Only half a human being for her rights to be discarded?). <br /><br />Secondly there's your definition of connotations that is just plain wrong. Connotations are not "commonly understood meanings". Connotations are ideas and concepts that a certain word evokes. They differ from culture to culture and person to person.<br />You give a personal connotation for the word abortion and than treat it as if it were commonly understood.<br />It isn't. For millions of people there's nothing about "incomplete information" in the word abortion. And as you noticed earlier, in a medical context abotion refers to all situations where a fetus is removed from the uterus, be it by abrtion, be it by miscarriage, be it by something called "missed abortion", which is when the fetus dies but the body doesn't notice. <br />But you're trying to impose your definition and connotation onto the word and then use that for further discussion.Giliellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863240646094904253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789751063280553443.post-7907507422984707212011-02-09T16:31:13.812-06:002011-02-09T16:31:13.812-06:00Some good info and definitions. I think miscarria...Some good info and definitions. I think miscarriage is usually referred to as "spontaneous abortion," in medical records.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com