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- From: knapp@spot.Colorado.EDU (David Knapp)
- Subject: Re: Shameless attack on pro-choicers in general!
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- In article <1992Jul29.161308.15696@wuecl.wustl.edu> dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter) writes:
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- >> 9) I don't believe abortion is kiiling.
- >
- >I'm curious what strange definitions of "abortion" and "killing"
- >you use to support this belief. If an organism is alive, and
- >I perform some action, and as a direct result of that action
- >the organism is now dead, isn't it accurate to say that I have
- >killed (not "murdered" or "butchered" or "slaughtered", simply
- >"killed") that organism? Isn't a human fetus (living organism)
- >nearly always killed during an abortion?
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- 'Scuse me while I jump in here but, yes, an abortion kills a fetus.
- Removing a wart kills a wart, and taking penicillin kills chlamidia.
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- Killing as used in 9) above is not used in the context you put it in.
- Life is short, let's not play games with semantics.
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