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- From: patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: Suzanne's "Abortion kills children"
- In-Reply-To: forgach@noao.edu's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:31:30 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:57:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.203130.12300@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
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- From article by eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley):
- > In article <1992Dec18.001750.13308@noao.edu>
- > forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
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- >>Since fetuses are children, abortion kills children. q.e.d.
- >
- > Since fetuses aren't children, abortion does not kill children.
- >
- > Now if you'd writen "babies", I would have had to grant that the
- > statement was literally true.
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- Since you are granting that fetuses are babies, are you denying that babies
- are children?
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- Abortion kills fetuses.
- Abortion kills babies.
- Abortion kills children.
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- Take yer pick. All of these are true.
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- So? I take it you *do* have something to say that you haven't previously
- said a few thousand times on this issue. What's your point?
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- (Incidentally, my scorecard shows you hit one of three, for 33.3%. That's a
- bit better than your long-term average. :-)
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- --PLH, so it's not an easy job. Someone had to ask.
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