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- From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: FOCA: And I quote.....
- Message-ID: <24156@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 17:45:38 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.133317.16209@ncsu.edu> <1992Aug26.153213.5542@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
- Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In talk.abortion, chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
- >cswicego@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Cynthia Swicegood) writes:
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- >> Abortions are wrong! There's no difference between a fetus, a baby, and
- >> an adult, these are just different steps in human development. People
- >> say that a fetus isn't anything because it can't survive outside the
- >> womb, well a baby already born can't survive outside the womb either
- >> unless someone takes care of him/her and feeds him/her. You're talking
- >> about human life, no matter what stage it's at and it's wrong to kill.
- >> Plain and simple.
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- #Gosh Cynthia, it's been a long long time since anyone's started off with
- #such a noisy fireworks display like yours. It's perfectly ok to not like
- #abortions, but I don't think that unsupported opinions are a good basis
- #for government regulation of private decisions, do you?
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- Chris, thanks, I missed this one the first time around.
-
- Cynthia, there is no difference between people, cows, pigs, and chickens,
- except that they are along different stages on the path to sentience.
- Just because they don't yet have speech or can communicate with us is
- no reason to justify killing them. You're talking about life, no matter
- what stage it's at and it's wrong to kill.
-
- Now doesn't that sound perfectly rational to you?
-
- Ron
-
- Potassium Benzoate included as a preserver.
-