home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!purdue!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!rj24
- From: rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston)
- Subject: Re: Left Wing Anti-Abortionists
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.045515.26607@news.columbia.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
- Reply-To: rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1993Jan20.012959.2066@ncsu.edu> <1jjrsrINN6ch@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1993Jan20.215449.403@ncsu.edu>
- Distribution: na
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:55:15 GMT
- Lines: 36
-
- In article <1993Jan20.215449.403@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <1jjrsrINN6ch@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com>
- >regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >
- >>> Pro-choicers tend to disagree with this viewpoint since they
- >>> generally hold that the woman's ``right to bodily autonomy''
- >>> should supercede the child's right to life. This argument
- >>> ignores the fact that in the vast majority of abortions, the
- >>> child's body is ripped to pieces,
- >
- >> pro-choicers generally pay just enough attention to this counter
- >> argument to point out that pro-lifers wouldn't be *any* happier
- >> if the fetus were rejected, whole.
- >
- >That's right, but pro-lifers generally have premises which are
- >not connected to bodily autonomy, and which lead them to oppose
- >abortion regardless of the failings of pro-choice arguments.
- >
-
- Pro-lifers generally have premises which are in no way connected to
- reality, and thus refuse to acknowledge their blatent mistakes despite
- overwhelming evidence.
-
- >>Adrienne Regard
- >
-
- >Doug Holtsinger
-
- Robert Johnston
-
- 'finger dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu' for documentation which shows that
- those typing lessons appear to have payed off, but an education would
- have been more worth while.
-
-
-