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- From: mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Pregnancy and Parenthood 2
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.150016.3608@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:00:16 GMT
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- In <1992Jul22.184355.3034@acd4.acd.com> wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck) writes:
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- >In <1992Jul21.184701.13427@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price) writes: >
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- >>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.
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- >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.
-
- I disagree. First of all, involuntary euthanasia is a hell of a lot
- further down the slope than assisted suicide. As the first involves
- choice, while the second does not, it is not hard to see a similar ethic
- (to that of the pro-choicer movement) involved. And secondly, DOD was not making a slippery slope argument
- when he said he hoped that women who have abortions don't have parents
- in nursing homes--he was saying that abortion and involuntary euthanasia
- nvolve the same kind of moral decision. And that, IMNSHO, is offensive
- to any woman who has agomized over her decision to abort.
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- >Bill
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- MP
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