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- From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Pro-Choice Challenge (WAS THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTIONS)
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.010233.19424@cfctech.cfc.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 01:02:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.171206.12387@advtech.uswest.com> <0eaiZKe00Uh748UVho@andrew.cmu.edu> <BtKotw.HGH.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <BtKotw.HGH.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >
- >In article <0eaiZKe00Uh748UVho@andrew.cmu.edu> Michael Loomis <ml3e+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >[self-righteousness and included text deleted]
- >
- >#In the meantime, I would ask anyone thinking about repling to Mr.
- >#Novak's post to consider why they would oppose infanticide and would
- >#yet support a third trimester abortion as described in this post by Mr.
- >#Ron Bense with Ms. Suzanne Forgach playing the chorus. In particular,
- >#why is it good to permit a newborn infant whose short life will be only
- >#a painful torment to live and to kill a similar third trimester fetus?
- >#The fetal idolators claim that abortion is painful to the fetus as a
- >#reason to oppose abortion. Yet opposition to infanticide causes yet
- >#greater pain.
- >
- >Supporters of legal abortion usually take this opportunity
- >to point out the fact that a third trimester fetus differs
- >from an infant in a very obvious way, leaving aside developmental
- >differences. A third trimester fetus is living inside a
- >woman and is affecting her health.
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- If I swallow your pearls, are they mine, Susie? The "inside the woman"
- argument is simplistic and ill-formed. Please reformulate.
-
- - Kevin
-