Late-Term Abortion Provider Gunned Down In Church

[Don Corleone]

Oh come on.

It's like using all sorts of different names for socialist, conservatives, liberals, etc. When they get silly enough, and they're used too much, it starts getting ridiculous and loony. All in good quantity, I say.

Sometimes I would agree with you. But in this particular case, you're trying to win the argument by playing semantics.

Assume a baby is born on June 1st at 0100. If the doctor sticks a scalpel into the base of its skull at 0101, you'd agree with us that he killed the baby. But if he inserted the scalpel at 0059, you're arguing we should change the terminolgy to performed a procedure on a mass of tissue. Tuff is saying, no, he still killed. And now, to boot, you're claiming he's playing linguistics games because he won't adopt your euphimism.

The whole abortion issue turns on this very point. If you believe a fetus magically becomes a baby by popping out of the vagina, then you wouldn't use the term killed. But for those of us who believe no special physical transformation in the child happens pre-to-post birth, then the term "killed" is very apropos.