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- From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <930112.130532.2t6.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 13:05:32 GMT
- References: <2935679179.0.p00168@psilink.com> <C0pBn6.1oA@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
- > Most pro-lifers I know are genuinely concerned about the
- > well-being of the 1.5 million who are being legally killed every year.
-
- If anti-abortionists were really "pro-life", they'd value living intelligent
- adult human beings more than fetuses. And if they did, they'd spend their
- time campaigning to save the lives of the millions of adult humans who are
- murdered, starved to death, tortured, poisoned, or killed by disease, rather
- than wasting their time trying to save a few fetuses.
-
- Is it only American lives you care about?
-
- > I could characterize Pro-choicers as hate-filled killers. But I know that
- > in reality, the motivation of those who are "pro-choice" is not to kill
- > children.
-
- Obviously it isn't. Fetuses aren't children, so campaigning for the right to
- abortion as a way of killing children would be completely ineffective.
- Unless you allowed abortion after birth, of course.
-
- > Most sincerly believe that abortion is not killing (I hope.)
-
- No, most believe that fetuses up to a certain age are not sentient human
- beings, and that it's therefore none of their business if the mother decides
- to kill one.
-
- Oh, and you didn't have to quote the other 175 lines of the article you were
- responding to.
-
-
- mathew
-