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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
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- References: <markp.726641670@spider.wri.com> <1993Jan10.075255.12850@Princeton.EDU> <markp.726677631@spider.wri.com> <1993Jan10.220646.246@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:58:09 GMT
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- In <1993Jan10.220646.246@Princeton.EDU> datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
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- >In article <markp.726677631@spider.wri.com>, markp@spider.wri.com (Mark
- >Pundurs) writes:
-
- >>>The two cases are not so different as you might believe. In both
- >>>cases, the z/e/f dies. The only difference is the circumstances of
- >>>the conception.
-
- >>Which IS an important difference.
-
- >Not to the z/e/f it isn't!
-
- But it is to the mother.
-
- >>>Why is it okay for the z/e/f conceived of rape to
- >>>be aborted, but not any other z/e/f?
-
- >>>Answer: In the case of rape, it is a woman's right to abort a baby she
- >>>does not want and cannot care for. Pro-choicers merely extend this
- >>>right
- >>>to include _any_ baby she does not want and cannot care for.
-
- >>Your faulty leap of logic might be slightly justifiable in a reality
- >>where there was NO way for a woman to avoid pregnancy with complete
- >>assurance. In this reality, there are various forms of
- >>non-genital/genital
- >>sex that fill the bill -- not to mention sexual abstinence.
-
- >Mark, you can't just _say_ my logic is faulty. You've got to prove it
- >too. So I'll ask you again: Why is abortion okay in the case of rape
- >or incest, but not in other cases?
-
- I did. Here it is again: Chance (e.g., contraceptive failure) is an
- inescapable fact of reality; rape is a violation of rights by a free
- actor. Your logic has so far unsupportedly denied this distinction.
-
- >Tep
-
- Mark Pundurs
-