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- From: datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers (was Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT)
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- In article <C0q4x6.L8p@athena.cs.uga.edu>, hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu
- (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
-
- >Why do people get so shocked to see the fetus-in-a-bottle? I have seen
- >cataracts in a bottle and I don't get shocked. But when you carry a
- >dead human body around, it is shocking. It is supposed to be. (That is
- >why i wouldn't carry an preborn baby in a jar- I wouldn't lug the victim
- >of a holocoast victim for its shock value either.)
-
- Why do people get so shocked to see gore and splatter in a Jason
- movie? Why do people get so shocked at Madonna's book _Sex_? Shock
- value and moral judgements do not go hand-in-hand -- nor should
- they. And yes, I have seen the fetus-in-a-bottle trick, at the
- medical museum of the Universite de Montpellier. Your pickled
- abortoids hold nothing to some of the stuff there. That doesn't
- make them good or bad, just strange to human eyes.
-
- >>You're kidding, right? Let's get one thing straight, Paul. The
- >>Holocaust doesn't work very well as an analogy to the abortion
- >>issue. I'd suggest backpedalling at flank speed to avoid being
- >>flamed to a crisp. The Holocaust, the systematic and deliberately
- >>cruel extermination of Jews. Slavs, gypsies, assorted other
- >>"undesirable" ethnic minorities and disabled people by a
- >>totalitarian government, is not an analogy to anything.
- >So, you still haven't given me a reason why the holocoust is not a most
- >excellent analogy. Nazi's killed Jews and took their money. Here in
- >the U.S, unborn children are killed in order to free up some extra cash.
- >Its not much different. Its not much different from sacrificing
- >children to Molech, a sex-god, in order to get a better grain
- >harvest (to bring in a religious aspect.)
-
- Z/e/f's are not only aborted to free up extra cash. Sometimes the
- mother is too young; sometimes she just doesn't know how to raise
- a baby; sometimes she puts children aside for know so she can make
- a better life for the ones she plans to have later; sometimes
- she's physically or mentally ill; sometimes she doesn't have the
- equipment or motivation to care for a child. While abortion can be
- and has been used for evil purpose, there is no connection between
- abortion and the wholesale, nationally premeditated massacre that
- was the Holocaust.
-
- [stuff deleted to save bandwidth]
-
- >Don't try to trivialize this holocaust. That holocaust was truely
- >horrible, but it is similar in many ways to what is happening now. A
- >kind of moral blindness descended on the people. The soldiers and other
- >Germans were actually able to convince themselves that what they were
- >doing was okay. It is true that many Germans did not know everything
- >that was happening, but they did know that the Jews were sent away from
- >their homes to concentration camps. Can you believe that the German
- >people actually allowed this to happen?
- >Many people today just believe the lie that the fetus is a lump of
- >tissue. Maybe it is a good idea that we be forced to walk through the
- >concetration camp and see what has been done.
-
- Okay. Then afterwards we can all visit the children who were unwanted
- and unloved, and whose lives are truly wretched as a result, as well
- as those women who did obtain a legal abortion whose lives
- are the better for it. I should warn you, though, that I'm a biology
- major. If you're trying to make me sick, I don't gross out easily.
-
- Since we fundamentally disagree on what the fetus is, I should ask
- you the same question I asked another anti-choicer here: what
- defines a person? And before you say, "DNA", I've got another
- centrifuge tube full of saline solution, and I'll swish out
- my mouth again if I have to.
-
- >Again, this is horrible. and I take your word for it that this is true.
- >But I did not pour the gas in the building, and I told you how I felt
- >about such things. I don't lump you together with specific groups of
- >people who behave immorally at pro-choice rallies.
-
- That's right, you did tell us how you felt about such things. You didn't
- want to come out and condemn it, so you hemmed and hawed and praised
- with faint damnation. You them implied it was okay to hit and kick
- somebody escorting a patient into a family-planning clinic, a place
- that, last time I checked, was perfectly legal to enter.
-
- Okay, Link--start backpedaling!
-
- Tep
-
- --
- I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm all right | Dear Lord, give
- I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home. | me chastity...
- I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life. | but not yet.
- Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone. --B. Joel| --St. Augustine
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