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- From: hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers (was Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT)
- Message-ID: <C1Bw00.G0L@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
- References: <1993Jan20.011738.26418@Princeton.EDU> <C17ys0.3IF@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1993Jan21.220623.11480@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:33:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.220623.11480@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
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- >Perhaps you should go sit with a few dying cancer patients. Try bone
- >cancer, for starters. Then you can graduate to some of the nastier
- >varieties.
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- I have. Yet, there is not way I would have killed this person. even if
- someone is dying in pain, there is no right to murder. This particular
- individual chose not to go to the hospital and take the pain medication
- or undergo hopeless operations. I can respect that decision. What I could
- not do is kill someone because they are in pain. People are not animals to
- be put our of their misery. If I were dying in agony, I would not want to
- have my family kill me. I would not want that on their consciences for hte
- rest of their lives. I would not want to die knowing that my family had
- killed me.
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- God can and has healed people in the last stages of cancer. Even if I knew
- for sure that God would not heal someone in my family, I could not kill them.
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- >--
- > Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- >These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- >Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
- >Member, T.S.A.K.C.
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