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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about Fundies
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- References: <92297.023217KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> <92297.110015EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Nov3.183610.1435@Cadence.COM> <1992Nov4.144046.11130@netcom.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:09:37 GMT
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- In <1992Nov4.144046.11130@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
-
- >(I set followups to talk.abortion.
- > Interested a.a readers are encouraged to go there.)
-
- >mas@Cadence.COM (Masud Khan) writes:
- >>
- >>A born baby is dependant on it's mother,
-
- >Not in the same way a fetus is dependent on its mother! If a woman
- >wants to give up her baby, she can just hand it to you, but there's no
- >risk to her in keeping it.
-
- Unless she is in a place like Somalia, where breastfeeding is depriving
- the woman of needed resources. Sarajevo may not be far behind.
-
- > If a pregnant woman wants to give up her
- >fetus, well, there's no way to do so other than killing the fetus,
- >unless you can think of a way...? And keeping it introduces
- >significant risks to her body.
-
- So does breastfeeding to a malnourished woman.
-
- >>is not self-supporting,
-
- >More so than a fetus. It can breathe, and it can eat.
-
- The fetus can breathe amniotic fluid after the first trimester, and
- swallow it, too.
-
- >>can't
- >>really think for it's self (apart from instinctive, God given reactions)
- >>so what you are saying that a baby is not a person,
-
- >Correct, at least in how I'm currently seeing the term defined. But
- >our society says it's bad to kill anything needlessly, and an infant
- >can just as easily be given to an adoption agency if its mother
- >doesn't want it. How can a mother deal with a fetus she doesn't want?
- >(A hint: "keep it anyway" is the wrong answer.)
-
- Maybe to you, but not to most women, who get an abortion because the
- baby will put a cramp in their lifestyle *after* it is born.
-
- >>what about a physically
- >>disabled *person* or a mentally disabled *person*,
-
- >What about them? Look at the famous physicist Steven Hawking (sp?).
- >He's about as physically disabled as anyone can be, but nobody would
- >argue that he's a person!
-
- Er...I'm not sure that's what you meant to say.
-
- >>how do you know which unwanted
- >>child is not going to be happy? ask any "unwanted" child if he/she wish
- >>they were dead most would probably be thankful for the oppurtunity of life,
-
- >Huh? Where does the happiness of unwanted children come into this?
-
- Stop playing dumb, Brian. You're hardly a clueless newbie.
-
- >>I agree that there may be certain circumstances where abortion should
- >>be considered ie when the mothers life may be in danger or possibly rape
-
- >What degree of danger is necessary? How many doctors must concur on
- >the risks? What if, by the time the courts have decided that the risk
- >justifies the abortion, the woman has already died?
-
- What's the courts got to do with it? If two doctors, one of whom
- has never performed an abortion and does not stand to profit from one,
- agree the mother's life is in danger, there will be no problem from
- the courts.
-
- >And as for rape: "possibly"? Please explain.
-
- Good question. I've been quizzing Frank ODwyer about the famous Irish
- Supreme Court case, and he cannot rule out the possibility that the
- "rape" involved was STATUTORY rape, the child being simply underage.
-
- Statutory rape no longer exists in Florida, thanks to a judge's
- decision that to make illegal a consensual liaison on the grounds
- that one party is underage, is a violation of the right to privacy
- guaranteed by the Florida constitution.
-
- >>But at the end of the day the decision lies with the mother
- >>but it doesn't change the fact that it is morally wrong to kill something
- >>living without a valid reason (not for convenience sake).
-
- >Are you opposed to hunting for sport, then?
-
- In some cases, it is the only way to keep down a population whose natural
- predators are gone.
-
- > And how do you feel about
- >the thousands starving in Bosnia?
-
- And how do you feel about them? Note my preceding comments on Sarajevo!
-
- > Why not devote your efforts to
- >helping them before you try to crusade for fetuses?
-
- This is so unfair and intellectually dishonest, it deserves a post
- all to itself. Look for a post, "Why can't we work together?" later
- this week.
-
- Clue: there are only so many hours in a day, only so many dollars in
- our pockets.
-
- >>It is a well know fact that women who have gone through abortion go through
- >>very serious traumas.
-
- >A very well-known myth, you mean. Surgeon General Koop, a pro-lifer,
- >ran a study on post-abortion trauma, and was forced to admit that no,
- >there appears to be no correlation between abortion and trauma.
-
- Brian, it is you who are repeating a very well-known myth.
-
- The words of Surgeon General Koop, from an interview in the
- _Rutherford Institute Magazine_, Spring 1989:
- "Instead of saying, `the Surgeon General could not find sufficient
- evidence to issue a scientifically statistically accurate report
- that could not be assailed, the Associated Press said, `He could
- find no evidence.' I know there are detrimental effects. I have
- counseled women with this problem over the last fifteen years.
- There is no doubt about it....When I got home, my wife was in a
- frenzy. `You won't believe what they are saying on television,'
- she said. `[Dan] Rather said it, Brokaw said it, Jennings said
- it, that you had not been able to find any evidence that there
- are psychological effects of abortion.'
- "So that's where it all began. And I spent...until about one
- one o'clock in the morning, doing as much damage control as I could."
-
- Excerpted in _The Abortion Injury Report_, the same issue in which
- it is reported that the 11-year old daughter of Catherine Pierce, a
- woman who died of a LEGAL abortion, received a $2 million settlement
- out of court from the abortion clinic responsible for her mother's death.
-
- Chris Lyman, in case you are reading this and are curious, ask Susan Garvin
- to send you a clipping of the article from this newsletter she loves to hate,
- in the May 1990 issue.
-
- This was one "_alleged_" victim of legal abortion.
-
- Peter Nyikos
-
-