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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Slavery Analogy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.012807.28600@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 01:28:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.213933.3984@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.213933.3984@csrd.uiuc.edu> g-skinner@uiuc.edu writes:
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- }Galen Hekhuis reminds us that slavery and abortion have different
- }purposes (he suggests "save the life of the mother" vs. "save the
- }plantation"). His observation does not make clear to me the
- }difference, unless of course Mr. Hekhuis feels the ends justify the
- }means.
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- No, I do not consider that the ends justify the means, although it
- escapes me how such a belief could make anything much clearer to
- Mr. Skinner. I don't think I reminded you that slavery and
- abortion have different purposes, indeed they do. I think I
- stated that they were two different things entirely. I pointed
- out that exemptions are backed for abortion legislation that
- were never even considered for slavery. Were the two somewhat
- similar, you might expect to find the same kinds of exemptions.
- You don't. You need not be very clever to figure that out.
-
- Abortion and slavery are in no way similar. I do not believe
- the ends justify the means. Clear enough?
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