1. I said &quot;effectively&quot; a tax on death, because it&#x27;s levied at the time of wealth transfer, which is almost always at death.<p>2. There is blaring, obvious religious justification for considering conception to be the beginning of life, and it has a high degree of consistency in logic and basic medical observation.  Arguing that life begins at some other (arbitrary) point is a loser&#x27;s game, my friend, and it comes right out of a post-modern nihilistic nonsense.  Being anti-abortion has everything to do with protecting the rights of the child because that child is a person, and nothing whatsoever to do with controlling women, except to the extent it&#x27;s required to protect the life of the child.<p>3.  Because....what?  If that&#x27;s not manufactured outrage, then I don&#x27;t know what is.  Seriously.  I think it&#x27;s highly likely that most people refer to the Democratic party as the Democrat party because &quot;democrat&quot; is the noun that the adjective &quot;democratic&quot; comes from, and is the grammatically proper way to refer to someone who is a member of the Democratic party (as a &quot;democrat&quot;).<p>All of this really kind of proves my point, I think: I nor any conservative that I know are upset that you don&#x27;t describe things using our preferred terminology, but you seem to be upset (accusing me of dishonesty seems pretty upset to me) that I decline to use yours.  Seems like a one-way street to me.