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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.182956.21402@ncsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:29:56 GMT
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- In article <C00L3K.HwF@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
-
- > Since it is the *pro-choice* reasoning he is
- > saying must condone infanticide, his (Doug's) beliefs can not
- > be used to back up his argument when it has been repeatedly
- > shown that many pro-choice positions *can* and *do* distinguish
- > between the born and the unborn and some can even disallow
- > infanticide and allow late-term abortions without any
- > inconsistency.
-
- Oh, I agree. But these pro-choice arguments are often based upon
- factual differences between "the born and the unborn" which carry
- no moral weight in themselves. Pro-choicers have stated that
- the child is inside the woman, which is a fact. Why does this
- fact carry moral weight? The child is a member of the human
- species, but wouldn't you claim that this fact carries no moral
- weight in itself?
-
- You can choose to base your pro-choice arguments on facts
- which carry no moral weight. But then your argument is
- no less arbitrary than an argument based entirely upon
- the species membership of the child.
-
- >-Rob
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
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-