Others have picked up on other issues with your comment but I have noticed one of my personal pet peeves in the phrase: protecting human life, especially innocent human life (as is the case with the unborn)
I don't like the idea that a fetuses life might be in some way worth more than a born person's life because they haven't done anything yet. They're innocent in that they haven't done anything bad but they also haven't done anything good. It gives the impression of life that we're all born with a perfect copy book that we just go on to blot for the rest of our life rather than seeing life as an opportunity to make the world a better place than if we hadn't been a part of it.
While we're on the topic I don't like the idea that killing a guilty person is better than killing an innocent person. Human life is sacred. That isn't changed by a person's actions.
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Date: 2006-10-13 10:49 pm (UTC)I don't like the idea that a fetuses life might be in some way worth more than a born person's life because they haven't done anything yet. They're innocent in that they haven't done anything bad but they also haven't done anything good. It gives the impression of life that we're all born with a perfect copy book that we just go on to blot for the rest of our life rather than seeing life as an opportunity to make the world a better place than if we hadn't been a part of it.
While we're on the topic I don't like the idea that killing a guilty person is better than killing an innocent person. Human life is sacred. That isn't changed by a person's actions.