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- From: ml3e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Loomis)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Questions for Pro-Choice advocates
- Message-ID: <IfHRX=m00iUx830nUa@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:40:59 GMT
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <C0IBst.F62@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.talk.abortion: 7-Jan-93 Questions for Pro-Choice
- ad.. by Michael Updike@bug.cat.c
- > If you don't oppose abortion at any time before birth what is the
- > fundamental difference between the child/non-child the day before
- > and the day after birth ? (if there is no difference then why is it
- > OK to terminate before but not after ?)
-
- I have no moral objection to infanticide. The human infant has not
- yet attained a level of awareness that morally obligates society to give
- it a right to life. However, society must draw line somewhere after
- which it is inappropriate to kill babies, because I believe a moral
- society is one in a which no child lives in fear.
-
- Thus, I find acceptable laws which forbid the killing of typical
- neonates. Birth is very good line legally because it is a quite
- distinct and irreversible event. Additionally, a mother should be able
- to make up her mind whether she wishes to have a child in her nine
- months of pregnancy. Though birth makes an excellent line for legal
- purposes, I would find acceptable other laws like no abortion after 8
- months of pregnancy or no infanticide one month after birth.
-
- I think it quite silly for "pro-choice" people to talk of birth in
- the same manner that "pro-life" people talk of conception. Perhaps we
- should term these "pro-choicers" pro-lifers+9months. Both pro-lifers
- and pro-lifers+9 seem to feel that there exists a clear rule about what
- has a right-to-life and what does not. I am quite content to live
- without such rules in an ambigious universe.
-
- Michael Loomis
-