Over at Crunchy Con, Alan sarcastically summarizes the argument in my big “safe, legal, early” piece:

“For decades, the argument has focused on whether we should be killing babies. This is a mistake. Instead, we should be asking ourselves: can we kill babies faster?”

Note the premise: any life in the womb is a “baby.” A one day old zygote — a single cell, not even implanted in the uterine wall — is a “baby.”
I respect the theology here. If God creates the soul at that moment, then the killing of a zygote is soul-murder. But couldn’t pro-life activists at least ackowledge that to those who don’t happen to share those religious views, a zygote is not the same as a “baby” and therefore those who terminate that zygote are not “baby killers”?
Do you agree?
(My full piece, “Safe, Legal & Early,” is here)

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