No such thing wrote:
GhostofTedKennedy wrote:+1
Heard her blabbing about her Christian values, but a late stage abortion proves she puts money and fame first.
There's no such thing as God. You men invented religion, that's why God was invented male.
. Sorry, but no invisible "man" in the sky told anyone a female couldn't remove an embryo or fetus from her body. It's not a baby.
Er, umm, Shakespeare's "Henry VI, Part I" Act 5, Scene 4, has these words:
JOAN LA PUCELLE (Joan of Arc):
Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?
Then, Joan, discover thine infirmity,
That warranteth by law to be thy privilege.
I am with child, ye bloody homicides:
Murder not then the fruit within my womb,
Although ye hale me to a violent death.
Words are defined by convention. I'm unsure if the use of "baby" for a pre-born human being is conventional, but it certainly occurs, and perhaps even has a fine pedigree. Further, in the passage above, Shakespeare, usually acclaimed as the greatest writer of the English language, uses not "baby" but indeed "child" (an even older human being), to refer to a human fetus.