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- From: dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter)
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- Subject: Re: Shameless attack on pro-choicers in general!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.153459.3890@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 15:34:59 GMT
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- <1992Jul29.152325.6495@jet.uk> (Stephen R Cooper) writes:
- >>> 9) I don't believe abortion is kiiling.
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- <1992Jul29.161308.15696@wuecl.wustl.edu> (Don Porter) writes:
- >> I'm curious what strange definitions of "abortion" and "killing"
- >> you use to support this belief....
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- <1992Jul30.015254.16282@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> (David Knapp) writes:
- > '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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- Exactly. Thank you for amplifying my point.
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- > Killing as used in 9) above is not used in the context you put it in.
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- It appears I removed too much context in my followup. The original
- context was a list of activities which involve killing and the
- supposedly contradictory positions on them held by people who
- are pro-choice. The activities included war, capital punishment,
- animal testing, and hunting. Any definition of "killing" broad
- enough to cover all these is broad enough to cover abortion.
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- | Don Porter | dgp@saturn.wustl.edu | Washington University in St Louis |
- | "The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they |
- | please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we |
- |___risk congratulations." -- Edmund Burke._________________________________|
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