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- From: mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 1
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.201130.15433@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:11:30 GMT
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- In <By5EKx.CE1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> schnaufe@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Bernard A Schnaufer) writes:
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- >ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
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- >>jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes ...
- >>> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>>>If life is valuable in general, why do we raise cattle and then kill
- >>>>them? Why do we destroy the rainforests in Brazil? Why do we step on
- >>>>bugs that find their ways into our homes?
- >>>
- >>>I suppose all life has some value and should not be wantonly
- >>>destroyed, but there can be justifications for destroying life. Food,
- >>>shelter and sanitation for human beings come to mind in connection
- >>>with your particular examples.
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- >>If there can be justifications for destroying life, then why can't
- >>there also be justifications for abortion?
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- >Because human life is stands apart from plant or animal life.
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- Why?
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- > Human life is
- >sacred.
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- Why?
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- >The legitimate purposes by which other forms of life can be taken
- >do not apply to human life.
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- Why not?
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- > Human life is in a category entirely by itself.
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- Why?
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- > -B Schnaufer
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- MP
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