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- From: knapp@spot.Colorado.EDU (David Knapp)
- Subject: Re: Observations
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.000617.23106@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:06:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.014231.11346@advtech.uswest.com> stevens@eatdust (John Stevens) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep3.220014.23413@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> knapp@spot.Colorado.EDU (David Knapp) writes:
-
- >>We weren't discussing parenting, we were discussing giving birth.
- >
- >An inseparable subset of parenting.
-
- I think you are out of touch with reality at this point.
-
- >>You have *no* part in that.
- >
- >Bullshit. It wouldn't be HAPPENING if not for me.
-
- Yes, you donated a sperm. Good work. Then what? Was that donating of sperm
- hard work in comparison to carrying a child for 9 months than having your
- crotch split open?
-
- What kind of sex do you *have* John?!
-
-
- >>You also aren't required to have a part in parenting.
- >
- >Bullshit again.
-
- Unsupported assertion. A pattern appears.
-
- >>I know a number of women who raised their children just fine without the
- >>aid of a man.
- >
- >And there are a number of men who raised their children just fine without
- >the aid of a woman. So what?
- >
- >>>The fact that women bear children, is not sufficient reason to give them
- >>>all the rights.
- >>
- >>Huh? All the rights over their bodily functions? You think they should not
- >>have all the control over their body
- >
- >Not 'their' body. They are pregnant. By definition, they are sharing their
- >body with the baby.
-
- And, if you had it your way, 'sharing', by submitting to their husbands
- desires, BY LAW, to carry that baby beyond their wishes. Some 'sharing.'
- You weren't one of the communists that fled Russia, were you?
-
- >>>There is already a VERY large group of people who want to make abortion
- >>>at least more controlled, and most want it made illegal. In fact, the
- >>>registered number of anti-abortion supporters is much larger than the
- >>>number of abortion supporters, but due to a truly incredible media
- >>>slant, most people are unaware of just how large the numbers are.
- >>
- >>Really? Let's just vote on the issue then. I'm all for it.
- >
- >Vote? Sure. And of course, which ever way the vote goes, everybody will
- >agree to be a good looser and just live with the results, right?
-
- Right.
-
- >>>Feel free. I'm busting my ass to get my rights enforced, and you are
- >>>equally free to attempt to get yours enforced.
- >>
- >>Your rights 'enforced'. I like that. I am only working to retain and
- >>protect womens right to decide what is done with their bodies by themselves.
- >
- >No, you are not. You are working (hell, fighting) to keep unborn children
- >as slaves. Slaves so despised, so utterly property, that they don't even
- >have the basic right to life.
-
- Seeing that all of us were fetuses,naturally your next reductio ad absurdum
- statement will be that all 'pro-aborts' have a Freudian hatred of all
- humanity. Do we now worship Satan?
-
- You are correct, fetuses have no 'right to life'.
-
- >Slant it all you want, but in the end, the pro-choice position is based on
- >one of the prime tenants of slavery, to wit the belief that the slave is
- >NOT human.
-
- Slant as judged by an expert. You redefined all the terminology you use
- for greatest emotional impact and you tell me I 'slant.' Hmm.
-
- Yes, I don't believe a dog is human, therefore he is my Slave!!!
-
- BWahahahahah. (evil laugh as I walk my dog on.... A LEASH AUUUGHH>)
-
-
- >Interesting company you find yourself in. The echos of those anit-abolitionist
- >forebears of yours are so loud, I sometimes have trouble hearing what you
- >are saying.
-
- I am convinced now that you hear many voices, John. Listen to you doctor,
- don't stop taking the Thorazine.
-
-
- >'I am only working to retain and protect [the slave owner's] right to decide
- >what is done with their [property] by them selves.'
-
- (above is a creative definition of the colloquial term 'left field')
-
- >>>A woman's pregnancy (when the couple are married) has always been an
- >>>issue of the state.
- >>
- >>Hopefully, that will be carefully monitored.
- >
- >How so?
-
- "WE ARE GOING TO TO YOU INTO A SLAVE TOO, JOHN", " YOU AND ALL THOSE
- EVIL FETUSES!" :-'
-
-
- >>>You act as if babies are interchangeable.
- >>
- >>Where did I do that?
- >
- >When you imply that instead of fighting to protect the life of the child
- >that my SO wants to abort, I should just find another woman who is
- >willing and have a child with her.
-
- Um, you have some very strange ideas about what is 'implied.'
-
- >I'm sorry, but the baby that is being aborted is a unique individual,
- >irreplaceable.
-
- So is your toenail, which, by the way, is on OUR LIST OF SLAVES.
-
-
- >>>But that isn't what this discussion is about. It is about one particular
- >>>case: the woman is ALREADY pregnant, she wants to have an abortion, and
- >>>I, as the father, do not want her to have an abortion.
- >>
- >>Yes, then you're fucked. Give up.
- >
- >Hmmm. If abortion becomes illegal, remember that phrase, OK?
-
- We are not biologically predetermined to be controlled by fascists, you are
- biologically determined to not have the choice about birth.
-
- >>I'm sorry. I think your attempting to have
- >>the state then force her to give birth is barbarian.
- >
- >Just as I think that having the state allow her to murder the baby is
- >barbaric.
-
- Look up 'baby' again. The thorazine will not affect your short term
- memory forever.
-
- >>It is no hair off your ass to go impregnate another woman.
- >
- >I disagree, STRONGLY. That baby is irreplaceable.
-
- No, John, read the sentence again. SLOOOOOWLLYYY. Try to maintain a thought.
- Concentrate. Think "Spermmmmmm, speerrrmmmm".
-
-
- >>>The question is: how do we resolve the conflict in her and my rights?
- >>
- >>I'd say you have no rights in that regard and you simply need to get used to it.
- >
- >We already know what your beliefs are, and you probably (although I wouldn't
- >guarantee it) know what my beliefs are.
-
- They often disagree with each other (your beliefs that is.)
-
- >If abortion becomes illegal, just get used to it.
-
- Twist, twist, twist.
-
- >>>This must change.
- >>
- >>Good luck. One thing that might help is simply trying to get over your pain
- >>of your past experience in this matter. It would certainly make you
- >>happier and more objective.
- >
- >I'm VERY happy now (as happy as any adult can be) about our baby boy. And
- >I'm being very objective.
-
- Have you given him his first swastika? (objective swastika, that is?)
-
-
- >You might be a fairer, more reasonable person if you got over this 'it's
- >OK to murder a VERY young child' idea.
-
- I murdered 1 billion very young children just last night, John. I don't
- think I can stop now...
-
- >>>>I think, if I understand that sentence, that's the way to go.
- >>>
- >>>Nah. It's a dark horse at best, much less likely to be succesful than
- >>>limiting or eliminating abortion.
- >>
- >>Go for what is right, not what will suffice.
- >
- >Both are right. One is more expedient.
- >
- >>David Knapp University of Colorado, Boulder
- >
- >John
- >stevens@uswest.com
-
-
-
- BTW, George doesn't give a damn about abortion (seen a quote where he says so)
- he just wants your vote.
-
-
-
-
- --
- David Knapp University of Colorado, Boulder
- Perpetual Student knapp@spot.colorado.edu
-