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- From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Loren Finkelstein, please clarify.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.191825.12576@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Summary: Keith Ramsey, please pick up the white clue phone.
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 19:18:25 GMT
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- In article <1gs5tdINN88o@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ramsay@math.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay) writes:
- >In article <14DEC92.20420711@vax.clarku.edu> hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >|I'm willing to sign a legal contract stating that I will not abort any
- >|unwanted pregnancies if you will agree to be fisted for nine months. What's
- >|nine months of your time compared to the life of a cute little unborn baby?
- >|
- >|Prove that you are willing to sacrifice your time, money, and bodily
- >|resources for the life of a fetus, or quit demanding that women do that.
- >|Otherwise you are nothing more than a sexist hypocrite.
- >
- >I find this argument bizarre.
-
- Why? Because you're a sexist hypocrite? Or do you just find it strange that
- women would want men to endure the hardships of pregnancy also?
-
- >
- >For one thing, there is a big difference between being willing to make
- >sacrifices which are actually necessary to "save" the life of a fetus,
- >and being willing to submit to the conditions imposed by someone else
- >as a condition for their doing so. It is similar to the difference
- >between being willing to risk your life to defend another, and giving
- >in to terrorist demands.
-
- It's also very similar to the difference between going through a life-
- threatening pregnancy becuase you want a child, and being forced to endure
- it becuase the fetus worshippers have managed to get abortions outlawed.
-
- >
- >I doubt whether such a "contract" would be enforced, by the way. I
- >also hope that you are not the kind of person who would arrange for
- >someone to be "fisted" for nine months just in order to make a
- >debating point.
-
- There certainly seem to be enough people who want women to be killed "just
- in order to make a debating point."
-
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