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- From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about the Pro-Abortionists
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.015537.10410@netcom.com>
- Organization: Starfleet Headquarters: San Francisco
- References: <1992Nov15.035941.20377@rotag.mi.org> <1992Nov19.000433.5823@noao.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:55:37 GMT
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- forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article <1992Nov15.035941.20377@rotag.mi.org>, by kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy):
- >> 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.
- >
- >Kevin, every single one of us is a fertilized egg. Some of us are just older
- >than others.
-
- The same is also true of most other members of the animal kingdom.
- However, there are vast differences of every sort between a born human
- being, a born animal, and a fertilized egg.
-
- The objection to saying that a fertilized egg is more important than a
- person is raised because many of us feel that we earn our worth, and
- that our education and experience make us somehow significant in the
- universe. If you feel that the sole purpose of a woman, Suzanne, is
- to create more men and women, then I can almost understand your
- opinion that a fertilized egg is just as important in the process as
- the woman who bears it; however, I think that a woman of childbearing
- age is quite a bit more important than this.
-
- I honestly believe in what I feel, Suzanne, as strongly as you believe
- in what you feel; I'm no more a "baby-killer" than you would call
- yourself a "woman-abuser". Your position on abortion (laws
- prohibiting it in all cases) is as far from mine (absolutely no legal
- restrictions on abortion) as we can get; I'd like to find out what
- fuels your belief, and at the same time offer my opinions to you for
- scrutiny; I want to understand "the other side" as well as I can.
-
- If you'd be interested in discussing this with me, please send me
- private email (threads here too quickly get taken over with ad hominem
- attacks); or just start a new thread, or continue this one...
-
- --
- _/_/_/ Brian Kendig Je ne suis fait comme aucun
- /_/_/ bskendig@netcom.com de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire
- _/_/ n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
- / Nolite te bastardes Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre.
- / carborundorum. -- Rousseau
-