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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by paulddraper on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:34AM (#12701408)
> greater than the lives saved by repealing abortion rights

That's a tall order.

To put that claim in perspective, more Americans die in abortions every year than have died in combat in the entire history of the US.

(Whether a fetus is a person is of course the point debated, but anyway, those are the numbers.)

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by gilleain on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:59AM (#12701644)
> Whether a fetus is a person is of course the point debated, but anyway, those are the numbers

More pedantically, they are surely not Americans either, since citizenship is conferred at birth?

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by paulddraper on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:13PM (#12704529)
Yes, that is pedantic.

I'm talking about residency, not citizenship. Citizenship is more arbitrary:

* Does citizenship include Native Americans?

* Does citizenship include slaves?

* Which of the Revolutionary War casualties were U.S. citizens?

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