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- From: lebow@psl.nrl.navy.mil
- Subject: Re: Abortion, Caves, Galen (WAS Vegetarianism and abortion)
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:38:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.133209.20757@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com
- (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
- >Paul Lebow is now answering his own strawman argument.
- >He, curiously, deleted my demonstration of how he is
- >completely wrong in his statement of what Heather's
- >question assumed, and responds instead to his own
- >remarks of what Heather's question assumed.
- >
- Dean Kaflowitz objects to my interpretation of a question posed by Heather, "Do
- you know of any way to give rights to a fetus without taking away rights from
- the pregnant woman?" I pointed out that the question has an obvious answer:
- one can not. To me, a question with an obvious answer is, by definition,
- rhetorical. It is a statement rather than a real question. There's nothing
- wrong with that, but I feel totally justified in my interpretation.
-
- If the question were, "How will the rights of a the pregnant woman change if
- the unborn is given increased rights?" I would consider this a meaningful
- question.
-
- As I said before, I think your reinterpretation of Heather's question and
- invalidation of my inferences to be quite presumptuous.
-
- - Paul
-