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AS199: Debating Abortion, with Tyler Vela Part 2

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Thomas Smith

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Here’s part 2 of a 2 part spirited debate with Christian and past guest, Tyler Vela. Tyler hosts a podcast called the Freed Thinker, which you can find on iTunes or through google. I will be doing a commentary and break down of exactly how this debate broke down on Thursday’s show.

The post AS199: Debating Abortion, with Tyler Vela Part 2 appeared first on Atheistically Speaking.

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0:00.0

You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking. This is episode 199 and I'm your

0:36.8

host Thomas Smith almost 200. There you go 200 is going to be celebrated by

0:41.4

doing some commentary on this debate because it was very interesting.

0:46.6

We're going to have part two here with Tyler Vela, debate on abortion, debate slash discussion, and well let's just see what happens here in part two. Right, talking about sperm and abstract of potential humans is a completely different category

1:10.2

than talking about a human, right?

1:11.7

So, you know, I could, I So, you know, a woman could smoke and drink and do all that kind of stuff

1:16.4

and never become pregnant.

1:17.4

There's, you know, she's setting up a potential where a potential human, you know,

1:22.3

might be harmed if they come into that situation, but that's different

1:25.7

than causing harm to an actual human.

1:29.7

So it doesn't, I mean it doesn't rely on the personhood aspect of it but really we're talking

1:34.6

about direct harm to a human with a future like mine as opposed to causing

1:39.6

future harm to a human.

1:43.0

So that's going to be the salient difference.

1:45.8

Yeah, and it's an interesting conundrum, but I think the real issue is that you're not,

1:51.2

when you kill something that we're you're so I wanted I thought you

1:56.2

were still relying on the personhood and I thought you were trying to avoid that

1:59.5

so if we're both agreed that it's not a person, you're not doing any harm when you kill the fetus.

2:06.0

You're just not.

2:07.0

I mean, you're not doing any harm to a person.

2:09.3

So, right, so then, then why, when you smoke?

2:12.4

Why is it more very

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