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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Coalition for Traditional Values' Candidate Survey
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- References: <Bwy383.7sH@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <Bwy4vH.Iu1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <Bx20sw.JEt@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov1.220127.9405@ncsu.edu> <bob1.720811199@cos>
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 16:03:58 GMT
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- In <bob1.720811199@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
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- >In <1992Nov1.220127.9405@ncsu.edu> dsh@odin.uucp (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >>In article <Bx20sw.JEt@cs.uiuc.edu> zweig@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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- >>> Show me a so-called "pro-lifer" who doesn't eat meat, doesn't use any
- >>> animal-derived products, is against the death penalty, wants to outlaw
- >>> cigarettes and automobiles as well as guns, and is willing to take a
- >>> trip down to the Barrio in L.A. and talk to gang members, and I'll accept
- >>> that the term "pro-life" is meaningful, at least in that one instance.
-
- >>Show me a so-called "pro-choicer" who supports the "choice" to kill
- >>and abuse born children, who supports the "choice" to commit
- >>murder, rape, robbery, and arson, who supports the "choice" to
- >>evade income taxes and the "choice" to sell drugs to children,
- >>and maybe I'll accept that the term "pro-choice" is meaningful.
-
- >>Gosh, it's so much fun to launch meaningless, content-free attacks
- >>on labels, rather than to address the issues!
-
- >I can't believe my eyes! Did you actually type this DOD, or is
- >someone using your account.
-
- *Smile* when you say that, podner! You can believe your eyes, you
- called him DOD, you know he does this kind of stuff all the time.
-
- And I kinda like the way he put it, given that he feels that a child in the
- womb (or, as the great common-law scholar William Blackstone put it in the
- 18th century, "An infant *in ventre sa mere*") should have the same
- rights not to be harmed as one outside the womb.
-
- I agree with him once brainwaves are detectable.
-
- Of course, he did insert some stuff about arson and income taxes, but
- that's a matter of taste. Which Blackshaw obviously does not share,
- nor does he share Blackstone's view that an infant *in ventre sa mere*
- should be thought of as born for many legal purposes.
-
- Blackstone, Blackshaw, Blackmun. I'll take the first over the other
- two any day.
-
- Peter Ny.
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-