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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Oh-no, not *that* one again!
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 20:10:57 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul23.185720.27575@coopsol.com> <1992Jul30.003419.8862@noao.edu>
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- forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes ...
- >What I was, and am, objecting to, is the practice of cloaking one's eyes
- >with the garb of "education", insisting that people use Latin words like
- >"fetus" instead of the equivalent English word "baby", in order to
- >dehumanize another human being for the purpose of committing some cruel
- >act against them, in this case, the bloody destruction of that human being.
-
- I may well be mistaken, but don't you claim membership in the Catholic
- Church? The same one that is still widely using latin? If so (and excuse
- me if I'm mistaken), what could possibly be your objection to the use of
- the English word fetus?
-
- And yes, it _is_ English. Enough native speakers of the language recognize
- it and understand its meaning for it to qualify as an English word. That
- it has a Latin origin is irrelevent, as many English words have their origins
- in other languages.
-
- >You can try to sanitize it all you want, with "re-education", mental re-
- >programming, redefinitions, and even insisting that English speaking Americans
- >speak Latin. But you cannot make the underlying truth of the horror of what
- >you are advocating, the bloody dismemberment of millions of unborn children,
- >go away. No amount of whitewash will cover the bloodstains.
-
- I'll assume (this time) that you are merely ignorant and not deliberately
- lying in this paragraph. In the past you've claimed that the Pill may
- not be used as it abort/prevents implantation of fertilized eggs. In such
- cases not only does no dismemberment occur, but there is no blood, no members
- or limbs, and no babies. Unless, of course, you consider an embryo that
- is this => . <= big to be a baby?
-
- --
- Ray Fischer
- rfischer@cs.stanford.edu
- ray@netcom.com
-