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- From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Mark is playing Devil's Advocate, and badly? (Re: Who are you guys?)
- Message-ID: <29626@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 20:22:59 GMT
- References: <markp.726641670@spider.wri.com> <markp.726866237@joplin.wri.com>
- Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
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- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In talk.abortion, markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >In <bob1.726860519@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
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- mp>>Compare: The use of force is either wrong, or it is not. If it is wrong,
- mp>>you may not use force to prevent someone from killing you. If it is not
- mp>>wrong, then anyone who wants may use force however he wants.
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- >>A general failing in t.a, discussing a single point as if it existed
- >>in a vacuum. Rights, responsibilities, laws, etc. are all intertwined
- >>sometimes in ways no one intended.
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- >Right! Which is why abortion is permissible in cases of rape, incest,
- >or grave threat to the mother's life. Glad we finally agree on this!
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- With the use of force, it is permissable against a subject that is harming
- you. Why is a fetus resulting from rape or incest physically more harmful
- than those conceived through consensual sex? (Or emotionally, or any
- other way, for that matter)
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- Ron Think about this one (seen on a bumper sticker):
- The road to hell is bumper-to-bumper
- Make a U-turn to God.
- The irony is priceless.
-