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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.190138.5201@ncsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Dec22.203333.28731@ncsu.edu> <1992Dec22.234506.23392@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Dec23.013411.7322@ncsu.edu> <1992Dec23.104329.21553@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:01:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.104329.21553@hemlock.cray.com>
- mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:
- >dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >>kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman) writes:
-
- >>> *You're* the one who casually asserted that (see above)
- >>> "there is no difference between a late-term fetus and an infant".
- >>> Do you really believe there are no significant distinguishing
- >>> factors between a late-term fetus and an infant?! <y,n>
-
- >> There are factual differences between a late-term fetus
- >> and a newborn infant, but I have not heard any arguments
- >> from pro-choicers which would give *moral* weight to these
- >> facts. Thus I conclude that there is no moral difference
- >> between killing a newborn infant and killing a late-term
- >> fetus.
-
- > Doug, you've just asserted that there is no '*moral*
- > weight' involved in posing a possible threat to a woman's
- > life.
-
- No, I said that there's no moral difference between
- a late-term fetus and a newborn infant. If a woman's
- life were immediately threatened by either a late-term
- fetus or a newborn infant, I would feel that she would
- be justified in taking human life.
-
- >muriel
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
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