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- From: kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman)
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.234506.23392@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:45:06 GMT
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- > = dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >> = kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman) writes:
- dh> = dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- dh> Clearly, pro-choicers who support unrestricted abortion-on-
- dh> demand must argue that the child should not be considered
- dh> as a person. This position implies that newborn infants
- dh> are not persons, since there is no difference between a
- dh> late-term fetus and an infant, and hence these pro-choicers
- dh> must condone infanticide.
-
- >> Are you really unable to identify any significant distinguishing
- >> factors between a late-term fetus and an infant?!
-
- > There are factual differences between a late-term fetus
- > and an infant. And there are factual differences between
- > a fertilized egg and a non-fertilized egg. The question
- > is whether these factual differences imply moral differences.
- >
- > Merely asserting facts, without providing any underlying
- > moral argument based on those facts, is not a very convincing
- > argument. You need to show a moral difference between
- > killing a newborn infant and killing a late-term fetus.
-
- Now wait a minute, *I'm* not arguing anything -- *you* are.
- Hence *I* don't need to show anything, *you* do.
- *You're* the one who casually asserted that (see above)
- "there is no difference between a late-term fetus and an infant".
- This strikes me as a rather incredulous assertion, regardless of
- one's position on abortion. So again I ask:
-
- o Do you really believe there are no significant distinguishing
- factors between a late-term fetus and an infant?! <y,n>
-
- -Brian
-