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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: Roe v. Wade and abortion (was Re: Another good reason to vote for B
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.223712.29505@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:37:12 GMT
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- In <Sep12.080031.56284@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- sa114984@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Steven Arnold) writes:
- > In article <fzmnh9k.ray@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- > >
- > >Here is one difference between slavery and abortion. A slave is a walking,
- > >talking, thinking person that can actually say that it doesn't want to be
- > >a slave.
- >
- > In short: one is, in your arbitrary opinion, a human being sufficiently
- > like you to deserve a right to life, while the other (again in your arbitrary
- > opinion) is a human being not sufficiently like you to deserve a right to life.
-
- One is a human being; the other is not. (Using the normal meaning of the
- term "human being".)
-
- > Prove, if you will, that walking and talking and thinking are
- > prerequisistes to personhood.
-
- Why are you asking him to prove something he didn't claim? A fetus can't
- walk, can't talk, can't think (certainly not in the first two trimesters),
- and is not a person (ditto). There was no claim that the first three are
- prerequisites for the fourth.
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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