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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about the Pro-Abortionists
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:23:24 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- References: <1992Oct31.135840.3509@netcom.com> <1d85iaINNate@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> <1992Nov15.035941.20377@rotag.mi.org>
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- In article <1992Nov15.035941.20377@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1d85iaINNate@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >>
- >>I think that it's rather demeaning to be told that a fertilised egg is no
- >>more important than an animal.
- >
- >Does it demean YOU, Frank? Do you consider yourself a fertilized egg? If not
- >demeaning to you, then to whom? I see it potentially demeaning only to
- >fertilized eggs. It could hurt their "feelings", maybe.
-
- I see it as potentially demeaning to all of humanity, and also to the truth.
-
- >>I think that to unecessarily bring a z/e/f
- >>into being and then destroy it is - all other things being equal - an act of
- >>vandalism.
- >
- >And to allow that accidental pregnancy to enslave a woman for 9 months is to
- >prostrate oneself before ancient biological destiny, and to make a mockery of
- >the centuries of learning, the lifetimes of hard work, the many unfortunates
- >that were lost to experimental procedures -- in short, to DEMEAN the
- >institution of medical science, and its power to help (wo)mankind control its
- >reproductive destiny.
-
- Bullshit. Depends on who's doing the allowing. Medical science serves us,
- not the other way around. Demean medsci all you like, if it makes you more
- fully human.
-
- >I'd rather rebel with a little vandalism, than be trampled by the blind,
- >cold-hearted vicissitudes of biological destiny which keep trying to suck
- >us back into the Stone Age.
-
- Those are not the alternatives.
-
- > - Kevin
-
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- when you make us free your way"
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