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- From: chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney)
- Subject: Re: What if???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.004213.29480@csus.edu>
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- References: <j1moody-010992232532@lafmac15.lafortune.lab.nd.edu> <1992Sep3.234700.14539@nas.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:42:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.234700.14539@nas.nasa.gov> dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King) writes:
- >
- >hd>In article <j1moody-010992232532@lafmac15.lafortune.lab.nd.edu> j1moody@darwin.cc.nd.edu (Humpty
- >Dumpty) writes:
- >
- >hd>What if the human fetus developed on the outside of the mothers stomach,
- >hd>where everyone could see the eyes, ears, nose, etc. forming?
- >
- >hd>I'm not talking science here, I'm talking psychology.
- >
- >I think if the fetus was on the outside of the woman, it may become
- >even easier for the fetus fanatics to ignore the woman. I don't see
- >this as a good thing.
-
- This is TOO easy. Okay, boys and girls, let's take this response and
- break it down one piece at a time.
-
- 1) Legislating against discrimination against the human fetus means
- ignoring women.
-
- If that were right, then legislating against discrimination in
- general, would have to mean ignoring the people whose rights would be
- narrowed by such new laws.
-
- Meaning, why weren't we crying for the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke?
-
- Lesson, fellow scholars: This 6th grade argument fails because it
- implies that protecting one human individual means ignoring another,
- and hence it should not be done - this implication is inconsistent
- with the course of human rights in the US, and is in fact irrelevant.
-
- Translation: I'll cry for you if you feel you've lost something, but
- discrimination is discrimination and my vote is going to be to deprive
- you of the right to be the discriminator: Which means bye-bye Roe vs.
- Wade and all its kin.
-
- >hd>We humans have a tendancy to disregard with ignorance things we cannot see.
- >
- >Care to explain why so many can disregard a woman that they should
- >be able to see. I'm not making any claim that they can see the
- >woman, but they sure don't have any trouble ignoring her.
-
- We see the women. We saw Jim Crow and we saw the bus company
- presidents who wouldn't let minorities sit in the front seats on
- buses.
-
- Just because we pushed THEIR rights to discriminate, into oblivion,
- did not mean we did NOT see them.
- It is the same principle which drives the vast majority of the Pro
- Life Movement, whether we know it consciously or not.
-
- >hd>How tragic future generations will view our blindsided stupidity.
- >
- >I agree. I figure they are going to look back in amazement that we
- >let a group of fetus fanatics take away rights from women just to
- >protect the object of their obsession. Tragic is right.
-
- More homework answers, fellow scholars. This 6.5th grade argument
- bases itself on the following:
-
- 1) Banning abortion is a result of fetus worshippers.
- 2) Hence it is tragic.
-
- 1 - Banning discrimination can be viewed as a result of a movement's
- "worshipping" those being discriminated against. The word "nigger
- lover" should ring in your head, Dan King. Because people wanted to
- gain human rights for African-Americans (and other minorities), they
- were called "negro worshippers."
- In other words, we have put many, many non-minorities out of work
- because the OBJECTS OF OUR OBSESSION, now have taken up some of the
- room that non-minorities would otherwise have had to themselves.
-
- 2 - By this reasoning and consistent application to other
- anti-discrimination movements BESIDES the pro-life movement, which is
- the latest of those movements, your reasoning would lead us to
- conclude that whenever we seek to ban some form of discrimination, and
- it tramples on the current rights of others, we hence are worshipping
- those being discriminated against, and that is a tragedy.
- By your reasoning, it is a tragedy to fight discrimination when it
- means hurting someone else's perceived and/or legally granted rights,
- because in doing so, we DO NOT SEE THEM.
-
- Hence, all civil rights movements in America and beyond, have been the
- results of tragedies. If we were to accept the reasoning you put forth
- in this article.
-
- >Dan King
-
- Additional note: You doubtlessly know as well as anyone that there are
- some people who oppose abortion for reasons far other than that it is
- discrimination. Some oppose it because it is "immoral" or a
- "MotherNature NeverIntended FlavorOfBehavior" (whoops - Drieux virus
- attack there). Some oppose it because their pastor said so. These same
- people are of a class among which exists the kind of person who is
- perfectly able to oppose abortion and THEN TURN AROUND and be avowed
- racists. This is known as the David Duke pro-lifer. These are the
- closest folks you'll ever see, to that "fetus worshipper" argument you
- present.
-
- However, the majority of us, whether we can articulate it to you or
- not, see legal abortion as discrimination against the human fetus,
- which by any sensible standards, should be recognized as a member of
- the human species in the Constitution. We don't WORSHIP fetuses, Dan
- King; we oppose legal discrimination against them which strips them of
- their right to live. They didn't WORSHIP my great grandparents when
- they protested the Dred Scott ruling; they sought legal PROTECTION for
- them.
-
- Your most accurate beef would not be calling us "fetus worshippers,"
- Dan King, but rather, the question "Is legal abortion a kind of
- discrimination that is consistent, or inconsistent, with the already
- decided course of human rights reform in America?"
-
- At least _then_ you would not make such inaccurate and
- self-contradictory statements as which dominated your article.
-
- What will you call pro-lifers when they shoot down any efforts to take
- the right to life away from anencephalic infants? "Baby worshippers"?
- I'm sure the rest of America will take great offense to that statement
- - great enough offense to vote your side of the LIFE issue, out of
- political office.
-
-
-
- =============================================================================
- >## "My logic is based on ... a religious perspective which says
- >## that personhood begins at birth (actually a month after birth if
- >## we want to be precise)..."
- >## -- Gloria Feldt,
- >## chief executive, Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona
-
- >## "I see nothing extreme or reprehensible about this statement."
- >## -- garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) <BtnDAw.Iwo.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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