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- From: psl@nrl.navy.mil (Paul Lebow)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Slavery Analogy
- Message-ID: <C015Cq.ILJ@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:48:26 GMT
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- Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
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- Re: Slavery Analogy
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- In article <1992Dec28.213933.3984@csrd.uiuc.edu> g-skinner@uiuc.edu writes:
- > I ended my last post with the observation:
- >
- > But those of us (myself included) who would leave the abortion
- > choice to individuals must ask ourselves whether we would also
- > leave the choice to keep slaves to the individual. If our answer
- > differs, we must be able to clearly explain why. Arguing "slaves
- > are people" will not do, for it is probable that not everyone
- > agrees.
- >
- > I expected some folks would post their clear explanations.
- > Unfortunately, only one reply that has appeared so far has done so.
-
-
- Gregg
-
- Its ironic that you fail to see the significance of your own observation.
- You then proceed to catalog various irrelavent'explantions' presented by
- others.
-
- What has happened is that a very legitimate comparison was made between
- the 'pro-choice' evasion of culpability in the death of millions of
- children, and the 'pro-choice' excuse offered by Stephan Douglas in his
- debate with LIncoln. The details of the comparison are, of course,
- different, but are quite beside the point. The point is not, how the
- unborn child and slave are the same, rather, it is how society can,
- through denial and cowardice, allow inhumanity to be perpetrated on a
- grand scale.
-
-
- > On a final note, I indicated that I include myself among those who
- > would leave the abortion choice to individuals. As a result, I am at
- > a loss to understand why questions such as
- >
- > Why do you want to give special rights only to entities that
- > occupy the bodies of women?
- >
- > would be directed to me. I am, of course, unable to answer.
-
- >
- > Gregg Skinner
- >
-
- The answer sticks in your craw, doesn't it?
-
- -Paul
-