by Murray Vasser | murrayvasser.blogspot.com

It would seem the pro-life movement has acquired an unlikely supporter. On Wednesday Richard Dawkins, a vocal proponent of atheism and the author of The God Delusion, posted a provocative tweet about abortion:

With respect to those meanings of “human” that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

Now when Dawkins typed, “any fetus,” he did not mean it. He was not thinking of dolphin fetuses or dog fetuses. What he really meant to say was this:

With respect to those meanings of “human” that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any human fetus is less human than an adult pig.

Now of course this is manifest nonsense. A human fetus is a human. A pig is not a human.

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