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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: A little known fact...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.150709.3137@ncsu.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:07:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.184425.29185@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
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- >dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >> The Western ethic against infanticide gained its roots from
- >> early Judeo-Christian thought.
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- > Substantiate this accusation or retract it.
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- "The change in Western attitudes to infanticide since Roman times is,
- like the doctrine of the sanctity of human life of which it is a part,
- a product of Christianity."
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- Peter Singer, _Practical Ethics_, Cambridge University Press,
- 1979, p. 125
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- See also, Michael Tooley, _Abortion and Infanticide_, chapter 10.
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- Doug Holtsinger
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