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- From: noonan@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Michael P Noonan)
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:37:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.063007.50924@watson.ibm.com>, margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
- |> In <1992Dec21.212858.28762@mksol.dseg.ti.com> noonan@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Michael P Noonan) writes:
- |> >If people defending the right of abortionists to exercise their beliefs
- |> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- |> >want to be called pro-choice, fine. If people defending the existence
- |> >of a right of a fetus to be born want to be called pro-life, fine.
- |>
- |> The above seems to be your problem. An abortionist is a person who performs
- |> abortions. In this country, only doctors are legally allowed to perform
- |> abortions (I believe). I assumed that you were writing (pro-abortion)ists -
- |> i.e., people that are in favor of abortions in all cases of pregnancy. Are
- |> you talking about pro-(abortionists) - i.e., people who support doctors who
- |> perform abortions?
-
- Well, yes, in a manner of speaking. You have already pointed out that
- in order to have an intelligent discussion on this issue, I must watch
- my terminology. Perhaps I can end our discussion by promising to be
- more careful with which people I lump together into groups. But I do
- have some questions:
-
- 1) Are there really "people that are in favor of abortions in all
- cases of pregnancy?" What is their reasoning?
-
- 2) If a pro-choicer thinks that abortion is wrong, why do they
- think it is wrong? Why is it ok for others?
- (Simple question, right? :)
-
- 3) If a pro-choicer thinks that there is never anything morally
- wrong about abortion (these are the people I refered to as
- "pro-abortionists"), would they object to being called
- pro-abortionists, and if so, why and what are they called?
-
- |> Pro-choice means someone is in favor of keeping abortion available as a legal
- |> (if undesirable) choice. It does *not* mean being in favor of that choice.
-
- By *not* being in favor of that choice, you mean that it is the last
- choice, but a choice nonetheless, correct?
-
- I wish that perhaps you could propose a new analogy. Your Nazi analogy
- (with my counter-analogy which you deleted) didn't do much for me.
-
- |> --
- |> Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
-
- -Mike Noonan
-