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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.055156.10831@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 05:51:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.044334.25428@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >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.
- >
- I didn't see it that way, and still don't. but feel free to continue
- flogging this dead horse Kevin.
-
- >>>>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?
- >
- No, but when you ask stupid questions, it tends to turn it on.
-
- >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?
- >
- Very good Kevin, you figured it out for yourself!
- Or at least, you figured out one option. Other options would include
- using drugs which do not cross the placental barrier in significant
- amounts.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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