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- From: mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Summary: Godwin's Rule
- Message-ID: <C0KCyL.6LI@panix.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 01:47:09 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.011901.9877@noao.edu> <root.726503770@spssig> <C0Jyxx.L4H@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- In article <C0Jyxx.L4H@athena.cs.uga.edu> hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu
- (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
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- >Suppose you had been born under the Nazi government. Replace "abortion"
- >with "exterminating the Jewish race" and replace "fetus" with Jew. Or
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- This is the tiredest rhetorical ploy on Usenet. There is absolutely
- NOTHING, other than your linking them in personal disapprobation, that
- is a common ground between abortion and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
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- If one were dealing with a state policy/demand/program of abortion
- (as has been charged against the Chinese, I do not know whether truth-
- fully or not), some degree of comparison might be allowed. That such
- a policy -- and most especially an extra-legal paramilitary goon-squad
- or (worse still!) a segment of "legitimately constituted" armed force
- engaged in carrying OUT such a policy -- is not present in the USA is,
- I hope, obvious to all but the crackpots. Introducing such shibboleths
- into a discussion of OUR laws is evidence of a bankruptcy of ideas.
- --
- Michael L. Siemon "We honour founders of these starving cities
- mls@panix.com Whose honour is the image of our sorrow ...
- They built by rivers and at night the water
- Running past the windows comforted their sorrow."
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