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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.205628.11758@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 20:56:28 GMT
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- In article <1ia3g9INN4nb@meaddata.meaddata.com> johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan4.180930.5328@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
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- >|> I must have made a wrong turn someplace. I could have *sworn* I was in
- >|> talk.abortion, not talk.animal.rights...
- >|> BUT what the hell, I'll give it a shot...
- >|> Those baby seals are not *your own* body either bozo...
- >|> Why do you have such a hard time differentiating between your body and
- >|> others?
- >
- >Perhaps the problem is yours. A fetus/embryo may be attached to the mother's
- >body at the placenta, but it is not a part of the mother's body by any
- >definition. In fact, as a zygote, it is completely separate from the mother
- >and, like you, needs nothing more than adequate nutrition and a safe environment
- >to grow to any given level of maturity.
- >
- The difference, of course, being that I am not taking my nutrition or
- environment from a womans body.
- However, if you personally want to provide a fetus with nutrition and
- asafe environment, feel free.
-
- >Given any thought lately to what might have happened if abortion had been legal
- >and morally acceptable when Bill Clinton's father died while little Billy was
- >swimming through his second trimester, leaving a single mother without any
- >welfare or job skills? There would have been no "Hope" for Billy.
- >
- Wow, another mind reader! What evidence can you provide that Moma
- Clinton would have made the *choice* of aborting?
- What's that? You can't provide any?
- Not suprising.
- This oh-so-oft repeated argument makes no more sense then this:
- How about if your mom had been suffering from a headache John? There
- would have been no hope for you, either.
- Neither of these scenarios is any rational basis for legislation, or
- even debate.
- But you knew that already, didn't you?
-
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer. They also represent the views of
- your employer, your government, the Church of your choice, and the
- Ghost of Elvis. So there.
-