"What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs"
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Deal’s phrase “Simply put” is a classic political feint: it pretends to clarify, then locks the audience into a preloaded moral verdict. “Fetus farming” is not a neutral descriptor but a crafted horror-movie label, designed to make the policy debate feel like an emergency. The word “farming” drags reproductive medicine into the moral universe of industrial animal husbandry: breeding, commodification, profit, assembly lines. Before he even reaches “research,” the listener is already primed to see scientists and clinics as predators running a supply chain.
The sentence structure does additional work. It begins with “creation and development,” language that sounds deliberate, controlled, almost conspiratorial, then pivots to “later killing it,” where “later” implies premeditation. “Harvesting its organs” is the closer: a verb associated with crops and slaughterhouses, not operating rooms, making the practice feel brutal by default. Even if the underlying issue is fetal tissue research or late-term abortion regulation, the rhetoric collapses distinctions between what’s alleged, what’s legal, and what’s medically real.
Context matters: this is the post-2015 landscape, when viral undercover videos and legislative fights turned fetal tissue into a political accelerant. Deal’s intent isn’t to map the science; it’s to construct a vivid, easily repeated frame that forces moderates to choose between complicity and disgust. The subtext is accusatory: someone is doing this on purpose, and the state must intervene. It’s persuasion by visceral imagery, optimized for hearings, soundbites, and fundraising emails rather than factual nuance.
The sentence structure does additional work. It begins with “creation and development,” language that sounds deliberate, controlled, almost conspiratorial, then pivots to “later killing it,” where “later” implies premeditation. “Harvesting its organs” is the closer: a verb associated with crops and slaughterhouses, not operating rooms, making the practice feel brutal by default. Even if the underlying issue is fetal tissue research or late-term abortion regulation, the rhetoric collapses distinctions between what’s alleged, what’s legal, and what’s medically real.
Context matters: this is the post-2015 landscape, when viral undercover videos and legislative fights turned fetal tissue into a political accelerant. Deal’s intent isn’t to map the science; it’s to construct a vivid, easily repeated frame that forces moderates to choose between complicity and disgust. The subtext is accusatory: someone is doing this on purpose, and the state must intervene. It’s persuasion by visceral imagery, optimized for hearings, soundbites, and fundraising emails rather than factual nuance.
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