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- From: mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Pregnancy and Parenthood 2
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.213433.11971@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 21:34:33 GMT
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- In <1992Jul23.154510.12385@ncsu.edu> dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul23.150016.3608@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- >mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price) writes:
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- >> 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
- >> involve the same kind of moral decision.
-
- >Sorry "DearOldPrice" (DOP), but that was Steven Kellmeyer that you
- >were responding to, not me.
-
- Oops! But one bigot is so much like another in these years around
- the seatown corner now (sorry Dylan).
- .
- I'd have to disagree with Mr. Kellmeyer
- >on this, because I think abortion is closer to "nonvoluntary"
- >euthanasia in which the patient is unable to give consent.
-
- Actually, I think involuntary euthanasia might have been my term.
- Could be wrong though.
-
- >"Involuntary" euthanasia implies that the patient can give
- >consent, but refuses. Still, I think he's correct to say that
- >abortion and (nonvoluntary) euthanasia often involve the same
- >kind of moral decision.
-
-
- Think away. Neither one of you can make a logial argument for this,
- based on any kind of reliable source.
-
-
- >> MP
-
-
- >Doug Holtsinger
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- DOP
-