So your contention is that because you spend time around pregnant woman you are free to redefine the term to your own liking despite that it's not how we define a fetus in the womb in a dictionary, in courts, or medically? Who exactly is appropriating terms here?
Words are defined by usage, not by dictionary writers who fear being canceled. I’m not redefining anything. I’m using the word as I have heard it used since childhood.
The same goes for human by the way. A human defines individuality. A fetus in a womb is in a very practical sense NOT an individual.
An unborn baby is absolutely a human and a separate human from its mother and father. Do you doubt the science of DNA? An unborn baby has unique DNA, and it is the one and only human with that DNA, unless he or she happens to have an identical twin in the womb with it.
Explain to me how availing yourself of the only remedy the constitution provides when it comes to redressing grievances in elections, amounts to " disrespecting the election process?"
Again, the clear plan was to keep recounting until they finally came up with a win for Biden and then demand to be sworn in immediately. That’s not what is called for in election law, as the Supreme Court explained to Team Gore. The man tried to sue his way into the White House. He acted like a baby and so did Trump.
Oh? You are telling me that you have never been asked about your significant other (if you have one)? Or espoused on her in any way even when asked?
If a student asks me, I tell them that I have a wife, who they will meet in high school. If an LGBT-Q teacher was asked if they were married, I’m sure that if they were politically correct, they would say that they have a spouse and maybe what they do for a living.
I don’t go on about our sex life, or any other aspect of my sexuality, and neither should an LGBT-Q teacher. Nor do students ask about that; not even the emotionally disturbed kids I work with in my behavior program are that uncouth.
The LGBT-Q teachers who claim that students can’t concentrate on grammar, because they are too curious about their teacher’s sexuality are flat lying, if I may speak plainly without giving offense.
What agenda are you referring to? The only agenda I know of is that they want to be accepted as equal but please go ahead and tell me what you believe their agenda is?
They can be treated as equal, by not talking about their sexuality, which is what is expected of “straight” teachers. Neither straight, LGBT-Q, nor asexual teachers should be allowed to tell a child who goes through a typical phase of confusion and/or experimentation about their sexuality that they are transgender and then refer them to a counselor who encourages them to seek “treatement” from the transgender industry.
So you don't know what a loaded term is? But you are not ignorant?
Or you do know what a loaded term is but didn't realize that in this context it was?
If it's not that, what besides dishonesty can you give as an explanation?
My explanation is that we disagree. Something that people used to be able to do without resorting to insults. But as the liberals’ positions has more and more gotten away from any basis in reality, rational arguments fail them, and they become frustrated.
I am fully aware of what the term “loaded term” means. In fact, “loaded term” is itself a loaded term, which is ironic. I disagree that “baby” and “human” are a loaded terms. If those words truly arouse negative emotions for you, that is unfortunate. I won’t stop using them correctly, but you are free not to read my posts.
I'm sorry that you took it as a personal insult, I can only say that from my standpoint it is hard to believe someone who uses the term "baby" to describe a fetus in the womb, something that's incorrect, medically, legally, and as a matter of dictionary definition of words, in an abortion debate no less. Is doing so not purposefully, in order to load the question. It's just not all that believable.
A baby is a baby, so I call it a baby. A dog baby, is a puppy, a cat baby is a kitten, and a human baby is a baby.
If we were talking about pumping a woman’s stomach to rid her of bad shrimp that is making her sick, I would call what is being taken out “shrimp” or perhaps “vomitus.” If you prefer to call a baby or a shrimp that a woman wants removed “unwanted material,” or what have you, go right ahead. I won’t call it that, but I won’t spend three posts complaining about you saying it, I assure you.
This is one of the key disagreements I have with the liberal approach to debate. You seem to honestly expect that I will concede the argument before it starts by agreeing not to say that abortion ends a human life. All the science says that it does. An unborn baby has unique human DNA. After ten weeks, it is easily recognizable as human different from an unborn dog or cat. It is nearly universally socially accepted as a baby, just ask any expecting parent. Or anyone else, not currently arguing in favor of abortion.
Ask a pregnant woman if she has named the baby, and - unless she is on the way to the abortion clinic - she will not say, “what baby?”
Reagan Democrats stormed the political scene in the late 70's, early 80's like flies on a piece of rancid meat...
