QotD: Asinine linguistic contortions

With the 37th anniversary of Roe come and gone, I noticed the haunting silence from the media on the passage of such a date.  This morning I caught a wafer-thin piece on CNN's website (here).  Perhaps it's my disturbed ability to find the flaw within the diamond, but this quote jumped off the page as though it were wearing one of Elton John's 1970's Lucy-in-the-Sky outfits.

"A fetus is not a life, sorry," NOW President Terry O'Neill told CNN. "And no, nobody's religious conviction justifies taking women's ability to shape their own futures away from them."

Ah, the nullification of a conviction because it is religious.  Were it scientific, mathematical, or out of the mouth of George Clooney, it would be etched in granite.  Since it's religious, it's dismissed like Pee-Wee Herman.

What is it if not a life?  A cheeseburger?  It seems that that cheeseburger can be delivered at earlier and earlier stages of development and survive.  At what point, Ms. O'Neill, does it become "living"?

Based upon what the Bible says as highlighted with crystal clarity in Terry Champman's message, here's what Ms. O'Neill is really saying, "I say, it's not a life.  What God says has no bearing whatsoever upon the autonomy of the individual.  I am woman.  Hear me roar!"

Ms. O'Neill, you're argument is void of logic and sound reason and besides, you're just plain wrong. 

Sorry.