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. . . on just what it is that we are killing in the womb:

>>“Why are you giving me robotic responses? I’m asking you a human question, and I hope you’ll favor me with a human answer?”

That was Tucker Carlson on his primetime Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” interviewing Planned Parenthood Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens Monday night.

Carlson was looking for the answer to a simple question – the most basic, yet profound, question of the entire abortion debate: What exactly is the little “something” with a beating heart, residing in a mother’s womb, that is destroyed during an abortion? Is it a human being, a clump of tissue or something else? . . . . Carlson’s question has been the moral and legal touchstone for abortion opponents for decades, and as Laguens demonstrated, one that is virtually always sidestepped by abortion providers and proponents . . . .

Finally, after multiple attempts, Carlson doubled down with Laguens even more earnestly: “I’ve let you repeat your talking points, which I’ve heard a thousand times. … But I want to take it just a level deeper, because I think it’s worth it. It’s a big deal to a lot of people. And people say, ‘Look, this is killing a life.’ A heart is beating, you can hear it at five-and-a-half weeks, and the majority of your abortions take place after five-and-a-half weeks. So I want to know if that bothers you at all. … Do you ever stop and think, ‘Wow, what is happening here, is a life being taken?’ People say a life is being taken. Do you think that?”

As the clock ran out on the interview, Carlson gave the Planned Parenthood chief still one more crack at the question: “Why are you giving me robotic responses? I’m asking you a human question, and I hope you’ll favor me with a human answer. … You can hear the heartbeat. Is that a human being or not? Is it separate from the mother or not? Different blood type, often different sex, different DNA. It doesn’t seem like a tumor. … What does that mean?”

True to form, Laguens, herself the mother of triplets, answered with yet more “abortion rights” talking points that totally avoided the question.

“With respect,” responded Carlson, “I know you’re smart, but you’re giving me a series of rehearsed and very childish answers and it’s just disappointing.”>>

Let us watch the segment: (u/d) . . .

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There is one thing to be said about all of this, given the context of holocaust of our posterity under false colour of law, rights and the like: what are we doing to our consciences, minds, souls, posterity — and in the end, our civilisation? (If you can come up with a cogent answer that does not reduce to absurdity and/or march of folly to ruin, I would like to hear it: _______ .) END

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WJM, how many conceptions end in miscarriages? Why does God allow so many innocent human beings to be flushed out of the woman's body though miscarriage?Pindi
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I know I'm for the most part preaching to the choir, but here's my input ... https://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/how-can-the-taking-the-life-of-an-innocent-human-being-be-constitutional/ayearningforpublius
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Proud of Tucker Carlson. Glad to be alive during this revolution against fake news and political correctness.Truth Will Set You Free
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The scientific fact is that human life begins at conception. Everything after that is a rationalization. If you can't accept that abortion is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being and depriving them of their entire life, you are not being intellectually honest. If you accept those facts and are still in favor of abortionism, you might be a brainwashed member of the progressive death cult.William J Murray
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Why are you giving me robotic responses? I’m asking you a human question, and I hope you’ll favor me with a human answer?
Abortion is an inhuman procedure. The human response is to be in opposition to abortion. Dawn Laguens sounds like a robot because she's killed off most of her natural opposition to dealing out death. There is probably some natural opposition left, but her culture demands she suppress it. Andrewasauber
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kairosfocus, what's truly historic is that, facing widespread dissolution themselves, traditional media are beginning to rediscover the task of finding news instead of retailing approved talking points. That woman is probably in shock that anyone insisted on an answer that addresses biological facts, rather than narrative, spin and talking points. Note: Some media may survive the debacle engulfing, for example, the New York Times. But they would need to recover a sense of news. Philosophically, I suspect that most can't do it.News
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fyi, My own run-ins with Planned Parenthood: A tale of Planned Parenthood Part I We are all “the fetus” now and Live baby body parts defended by righteous rage bunniesNews
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And some wonder why people went along with evil leaders of the past in committing atrocities. Well, there are some atrocities happening right now. Next time that kind of question comes up, ask the man in the mirror. Andrewasauber
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Just what is it that we are killing in the womb, and how does a toll of 800+ millions in 40+ years not amount to the worst holocaust in history, under false colours of law and rights?kairosfocus
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