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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Subject: Re: Slavery and abortion
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.043830.9305@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
- References: <1992Dec31.010805.20244@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan1.021611.412@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:38:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.021611.412@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- }In article <1992Dec31.010805.20244@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- }>
- }>It seems that Gregg Skinner, Paul Lebow, and Michael P Noonan among others
- }>think that slavery is a good analogy to abortion. I maintain that there is
- }>no good analogy to abortion nor is there any good analogy to pregnancy.
- }
- }If you lack the ability to abstract from actual, mundane EXPERIENCES of
- }pregnancy and/or abortion, Galen, how do you expect to ever discuss these
- }issues intelligently?
- }
- }Perhaps you should consider just leaving the discussion to those of us who
- }CAN abstract...
-
- Well, I might, except then people like Kevin Darcy might jump in with
- no counter. Perhaps it escaped you, but using slavery as an analogy
- is often unproductive, as many are confused as to who is the oppressor
- and who is the oppressed, as I think Mark pointed out, in stating that
- many pregnant women, not the fetus, felt enslaved.
-
- To put it rather bluntly, Kevin, I tend to care more for the "actual,
- mundane EXPERIENCES" as you put it, than I do for whatever abstracts you
- might care to construct.
-
- ps how is your definition of the crucial dividing line which you can't
- detect going? I may have missed your response, if you made any.
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