Reply #6: for one thing..they confuse embryo with baby

[booley]

and they do this on purpose. No one is in favor of infanticide. And few think that abortions should be done regularily in the third trimester without a good medical reason.

BUT most abortions occur in the first trimester when we are still talking about a clump of cells.

Of course, when repubs talk abortion, they say baby and to often the rest of us go along with it. So instead of a personal, complicated and painful decision that women go through which they base not just on themselves but on the welfare of thier future children..people are presented with a picture of millions of modern Medeas killing their own offspring for thier own selfish reasons.

And lest face it.. the latter makes for a far better sound bite.

They also depend on ignorance.... about why abortion is sometimes necesary, what women who do so really go through, and how the repubs own policies contribute to abortion rates.