Plus ten! :)

Yeah I saw the column right before I saw your comment. Many good insights, in spite of the little historical slip.

I hope that remains true, but I'm pessimistic, especially once marijuana is legalized. People will begin to treating getting stoned as a right. Sad but true.

People have no right to the labour of another. People should be able to learn a profession without being forced to perform acts against their beliefs, insofar as it does not violate the natural law.

We have lost the idea of freedom and the natural law. That's why we have these conflicts. It becomes a matter of power politics.

They are social liberals. And legalizing all drugs is still stupid.

Thanks for the heads up! I have fixed the link.

If by "edited" you mean they were put together, of course they were put together, like any video. But nobody supplied the words of the Planned Parenthood officials. Their words speak for themselves. The picture of the aborted fetus in the lab speaks for itself.

When Planned Parenthood officials make claims about how much money they give for anatomical parts, or how they don't want to be perceived as making a profit, or how abortion procedures are changed to get the right parts, that's not pro-life editing.

When Planned Parenthood officials stated how much money they expected for anatomical parts, that wasn't pro-life editing. When the video showed a shredded baby, that wasn't pro-life editing.

The whole "editing" meme is hollow. You can't fake aborted babies in a lab or the words and the speech of Planned Parenthood officials.

"because you're saying that you have no arguments left, other than demonisation. "

Exactly my point. People will think that's the point of comparing a clinic to Auschwitz.

"You can't just ignore defining features and then pretend it is your audience's fault for including them. "

The defining features of Auschwitz are mass killing and dehumanization.

"The site of the Oklahoma City Bombing is a place of mass killing of dehumanised victims, that does not make it like Auschwitz"

The building wasn't designed for killing, whereas Auschwitz was designed to kill.

"You can't separate Auschwitz from the deliberate program of extermination of the Jewish people and anyone deemed detrimental to the "Aryan master race", because that is what it stands for, not just for generic mass killings. "

Sure you can. Lynching and Auschwitz have elements in common. Do you notice how lynching involves de-humanization and widespread killing? But lynching wasn't a program to eliminate black people. It wasn't genocide. See how easy that was? It was a very apt analogy.

"You also have much too high an opinion of your fellow pro-lifers if you think they're making the comparison in that limited sense. Just look at neal_ford's comment and tell me he's really not saying that PP is a Schutzstaffel-like death cult involved in genocide and eugenics. "

Some pro-lifers might err in their extensions, and some might not. It doesn't mean the analogy doesn't stand. Auschwitz is a place of mass killing resulting from de-humanization and an abortion clinic is a place of mass killing resulting from dehumanization.

As if the Planned Parenthood officials were NEVER caught on camera offering money for anatomical parts. Who are you going to believe, the abortion activists or your lying eyes?