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- From: wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck)
- Subject: Re: Pregnancy and Parenthood 2
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.184355.3034@acd4.acd.com>
- Sender: news@acd4.acd.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:43:55 GMT
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- In <1992Jul21.184701.13427@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price) writes: >
-
- >Look, why don't you just stop this silly analogy. It is insulting
- >and demeaning to insinuate that women who choose or have chosen to
- >have an abortion would just as readily euthanize their parents or
- >children. I know of no pro-choice woman who believes that involun-
- >tary euthanasia is a logical consequence or extension of abortion.
- >The analogy is pointless and offensive (unless offensiveness is your
- >point). Any further use of this sort of analogy is a fruitless waste
- >of bandwidth.
-
- It's a slippery slope argument of the same variety as "if we allow
- the government to restrict abortion, what liberty will they rescind
- next?". Such trends are difficult to predict (on either side of the
- inferred slope) but I was interested to hear that Dr. Jack Kevorkian
- has explicitly expressed a desire to align himself with the pro-choice
- movement, claiming that the same ethic applies to both issues. Of
- course, involuntary euthanasia is a bit further down the slope than
- the voluntary type, but the analogy is no more pointless or offen-
- sive than the oft-heard "taking away the right to abortion is just
- the beginning..." argument.
-
- Bill
-
-