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- From: chall@eco.twg.com (Charles Don Hall)
- Subject: Re: Description of the Fetal Remains from an Abortion
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- In <1992Nov23.050110.25831@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <By0snG.3AI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- >smithmc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lost Boy) writes:
-
- >> Okay, time to describe a different but equally gruesome medical
- >> procedure...
- >> Supposing I wanted to replace a leg joint with a titanium-steel implant.
-
- >Abortion is a unique procedure because it involves killing a human
- >being. You can't compare it to an ordinary medical procedure like
- >a leg joint replacement, because they don't result in the death
- >of a human being.
-
- I'm confused.
-
- Doug Holtsinger posts an article stating that the end result of an
- abortion is a bloody mess, and that abortion is therefore a Bad
- Thing.
-
- Lost Boy posts an article stating that the end result of leg-joint
- replacement is a bloody mess, and that by Mr. Holtsinger's stated
- criteria, this type of surgery is a Bad Thing.
-
- Mr. Holtsinger says that abortion isn't a Bad Thing because it
- causes a bloody mess; rather, it's a bad thing because it results
- in the death of a human being. The implication is that some things
- that result in bloody messes are actually Not-Bad Things, and that
- aesthetics is therefore not a useful tool for resolving ethical
- dilemmas. That's fine. We knew that already.
-
- This being the case, I have to wonder why Mr. Holtsinger went to
- the trouble of posting his original article. If I were him, I
- don't think that I'd post arguments that I considered to be specious,
- even if someone had put them in a book and all I had to do was copy
- them. Instead, I'd sit down and try and figure out what reasons *I*
- had for being pro-life, and then I'd type them in. I know this seems
- like a lot of work, but I've found that it saves time in the long run.
-
- Bonus argument: If a person is about to be raped, and uses a
- shotgun to blow off the head of his/her attacker, then this
- person has: (1) Created a bloody mess, and (2) killed a
- human being. Can we therefore assume that he/she has done a Bad
- Thing, or are there even more factors that need to be considered?
-
- >>Lost Boy
-
- >Doug Holtsinger
-
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