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- From: rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Another good reason not to vote for Bush
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.135036.29707@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Sender: rja@redwood26 (Russ Anderson)
- Organization: The 1991 World Champion Minnesota Twins!
- References: <FOX.92Aug15120641@graphics.nyu.edu> <Bt1C1o.1yH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <FOX.92Aug15221336@graphics.nyu.edu> <1992Aug16.230241.3085@anasazi.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 13:50:36 CDT
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- In article <1992Aug16.230241.3085@anasazi.com>, john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore) writes:
- > In article <FOX.92Aug15221336@graphics.nyu.edu> fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:
- > ]I'm just saying that it is not murder to withold assistance to
- > ]another human being. This is still true if the human being is
- > ]a fetus. If that human being is a fetus in the first two
- > ]trimesters it will not survive without the assistance of the
- > ]mother. If that assistance is witheld the fetal human being
- > ]will die, but no murder will have been committed. If that is
- > ]not an argument based on the appropriate assumptions I guess
- > ]we should just drop it.
- >
- > If a mother has a baby, sets it aside, and leaves it on its own,
- > she is merely witholding assistance. She would also be convicted
- > of murder when the child died of that neglect. It is indeed murder
- > in some cases to withold assistance.
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- Do you think that a woman that has an abortion should face the same
- criminal charges/punishment as a woman that abandoned her baby (resulting
- in its death)?
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