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- From: noonan@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Michael P Noonan)
- Subject: More abortion stuff (was Re: Reconciling OT with NT)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:11:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.174423.12108@hsr.no>, onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:
- |>
- |> >Talking and doing are two separate things. Please remember, it would
- |> >never have occurred to me to compare the abortionsist to Nazis. I am
- |> >merely using your analogy. Obviously your analogy doesn't do much to
- |> >convince me that pro-choicers aren't actually pro-abortionists.
- |> >Please, I'm not some abortion fanatic. I merely wanted to point out
- |> >a fallacy of Suzanne's and I got drawn in to this argument of semantics.
- |>
- |> Well, try this. I am a pro-choice, but I am personally against abortion. The
- |> reason I am a pro-choice is because I find the thought of forcing my believes
- |> upon others as horrible, outrageous and cruel. As an analogy, if there were a
- |> muslim dictator in my country and he made a law which prohibited me from eating
- |> pork meat just because he believed that it was wrong then I think I would have
- |> fled the country!
-
- But why are you against abortion? Which act is abortion closer to, murder
- or eating pork? Do you consider it immoral for states to enforce morals
- on others by passing laws to prevent stealing and killing? Is not getting
- an abortion something like keeping kosher?
-
- |> Onar.
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- Mike Noonan
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