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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.044334.25428@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Dec28.025558.14813@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec29.101123.21250@rotag.mi.org> <1992Dec29.163213.277@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:43:34 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Dec29.163213.277@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.101123.21250@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>
- >>Mark, you made a general statement about hypothermia being a non-gentle way
- >>to die. My only point is that death-by-hypothermia is NEVER less "gentle"
- >>than death-by-being-hacked-to-bits, which is the original context in which
- >>the word "gentle" was used. Do you or do you not agree with this point?
- >>
- >> [...]
- >
- >Kebbie, I was responding to a general statement which claimed that
- >hypothermia is gentle death. It is not. The statement to which I
- >resonded did not claim it was relatively gentle, it claimed it was
- >gentle, period.
-
- Wrong. The poster was comparing death-by-hypothermia with some form of
- dismemberment ("yanked out piece by piece") IN THE SAME SENTENCE. The "period"
- you imagined did NOT exist between the hypothermia description and the
- dismemberment description. It was obviously a relative term.
-
- >>>If you are (and I must assume you are, since
- >>>this is talk.abortion...) talking about hypothermia vs some method of
- >>>abortion, then I would say the "hacked to bits" is gentler. For the
- >>>simple reason that the fetus is dead before it is "hacked to bits". It
- >>>can't feel anything Kebbin. Not true of the person who is freezing to
- >>>death.
- >>
- >>How is the fetus killed prior to the "hacking", Mark?
- >>
- >Can you say drugs Kebbin? I knew you could...
-
- Did you leave your patronization switch in the "ON" position, Mark?
-
- Seems to me it would be ill-advised to inject chemicals into the fetus that
- are lethal to human life, since they might end up in the mother's bloodstream,
- might they not? Or would that be at a dosage that was guaranteed fatal to a
- fetus, but not to the woman?
-
- - Kevin
-