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- From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
- Subject: She was a California Angel... (Was: Legal Questions)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.163448.9329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Summary: I didn't see this the first time around. Sorry.
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 16:34:48 GMT
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- In article <7ymnw8h.ray@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >stevens@eatdust (John Stevens) writes ...
- >> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>>sean@Unify.com (Sean P. Curley) writes ...
- >
- >>>>That is exactly what I want. I do consider it a person at conception and I
- >>>>think murder charges should be filed against any women who gets an abortion
- >>>>- and my wife has said the same thing...
- >
- >>>Abortion in cases of rape, incest, or fetal deformity would, of course,
- >>>be prohibited.
- >
- >>Not of course. Exceptions could be made for rape or incest, just as there
- >>are exceptions in other types of murder.
-
- But not for fetal deformity? That's odd. I guess you've lost the points for
- "consistancy" that I gave you earlier.
- >
- >So the fetus is a person, but doesn't share the same rights to a trial
- >that all other people do. Apparently you believe that it can be killed
- >because of a crime somebody _else_ committed.
- >
- >Any wonder I have no respect at all for this self-righteous hyposcrisy?
-
- Here's an interesting question. Can anybody show me a court case in RECENT
- American (or world) history where person "A" commits a crime, so person "B"
- gets the death penalty?
-
- Another question: Parents today have the right to withdraw life-support from
- their brain dead children, and parents today have the right to prevent a
- hospital from using "heroic measures" to sustain the life of their PVS, and
- other "corpse-like" children. Would it be inconsistant for a pro-lifer to
- maintain that:
-
- 1) A z/e/f is a person at conception, and cannot be killed.
- 2) If said z/e/f is grossly malformed, an abortion would be acceptable under
- the same "thought" that allows a parent to withdraw life support?
- 3) No exceptions for rape, incest, or circumstance beyond that.
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- ="When trying to choose between two evils, I like to choose the one I haven't =
- = tried before" - Mae West, but I think I'm going to try it also... =
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