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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.161326.1326@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 16:13:26 CST
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- In article <1992Dec26.190138.5201@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >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.
-
- A statement that does a pretty profound job of
- ignoring the woman involved, and the pain and risk
- she faces.
-
- > 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.
-
- <Sigh.> Back to the island again, huh?
-
- The default condition of a late-term fetus is that
- it poses some threat to the woman, whose body must
- suffer some violence of one sort or another in order
- for the life of that entity to continue.
-
- But you've heard all that before. Too bad you don't
- want to talk about the women in your life.
-
- muriel
- standard disclaimer
-
-