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- From: gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Killing is killing... Isn't it?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.164316.24937@coopsol.com>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 16:43:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul13.012711.17989@panix.com> <1992Jul13.033421.22370@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Jul13.095100.5543@panix.com>
- Organization: Stay Awake Software
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- <1992Jul13.095100.5543@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) said:
- ><1992Jul13.033421.22370@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU
- >><1992Jul13.012711.17989@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >>} First, most
- >>}"pro-life" people don't believe that life must be preserved in all
- >>}cases, but only that an extraordinary reason is necessary for taking
- >>}it.
- >
- >>The definition of "extraordinary" is of course left to the woman involved.
- >>If not, what consequences do you see others suffering?
- >>(wrt abortion, of course)
- >
- >The unborn child is not the woman and the abortion has consequences
- >for the unborn child.
-
- Of course the woman is not an "unborn child". The "unborn child" is a
- mythical creature created by active imaginations, usually restricted to
- religious fanaticism. I'm sure you don't need me to repeat the plethora
- of postings recently refuting the term "unborn child".
-
- > Even if it's granted that an unborn child is
- >not a "person", legal protection is often extended to many things that
- >are not persons (animals, for example).
-
- Not when said anumals are residing inside the body of a person who does
- not want them there.
-
- > In addition, it's difficult
- >to see an absolute difference between an unborn child and a newborn
- >such that killing the latter is one of the most serious of crimes,
- >while killing the former is an exercise of one of the most basic of
- >liberties.
-
- Well, let's see: One glaring difference (that you seem to be blind to) is
- that a fetus resides in the body of a person who does not want it there
- and who may have never wanted it there.
-
- Tell me, do you consider yourself an "undead corpse"?
-
-
- Gordon
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