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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity,soc.women,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Abortion and humanity
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.224202.16902@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 22:42:02 GMT
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- Reply-To: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
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- In article <1992Nov5.145715.25946@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- hatcher@MSUPA.PA.MSU.EDU writes:
-
- >jsue@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey L. Sue) writes:
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- >> Look, for me this is not an issue rooted in religious beliefs.
- >> (It is, I think, rooted in my values of human beings, and compassion for
- >> others to the extent that I dislike what I see as the erosion of the
- >> importance of "humans" to our own society.)
-
- > Sorry to question you but I think you're being disingenuous. Many don't
- > believe a fetus is a "human being", so this IS part of the discussion.
- > The majority of those who beleive fetus==human tend to hold that belief
- > due to religious indoctrination, so it is a religious issue.
-
- The fact that some people hold a religious belief that human
- beings deserve protection is not necessarily indicative that
- their beliefs cannot also have a secular foundation. You might
- be interested to know that the Western ethic against infanticide
- gained its roots from early Judeo-Christian thought.
-
- >-robert (hatcher@msupa.pa.msu.edu)
-
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- Doug Holtsinger
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