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- Subject: Abortion (was Vegetarianism)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.023819.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 08:38:19 GMT
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- One must remember something with regard to abortion, etc. The arguments that
- can be logically redered infavor of abortion, as i see it, are as follows:
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- We don't understand what actually confers life (in the sense that you mean it).
- We do understand that some individuals possess a quality called life (i.e.
- those who are born).
- We are unsure if this quality is pre-labor.
- Those recognized with the quality have certain claims within law (the proper
- study for such problems as abortion) to pursuit of happiness.
- The most expedient (and utilitarian) way to handle the situation is to allow
- those who's claim to the quality is undisputed to have sway in the argument.
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- In my mind, the argument is not anything objective, it is, however, more
- expedient, an issue I have certain reservations about. The best one might
- hope for is for the issue to remain open (choice) until such time as a
- reasonably sure guess can be made concerning the amount of "life" that a
- fetus partakes of.
-
- Hippee
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