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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers (was Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.012852.6686@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 01:28:52 GMT
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- In article <C1Bw00.G0L@athena.cs.uga.edu> hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.220623.11480@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- >>Perhaps you should go sit with a few dying cancer patients. Try bone
- >>cancer, for starters. Then you can graduate to some of the nastier
- >>varieties.
- >
- >I have. Yet, there is not way I would have killed this person. even if
- >someone is dying in pain, there is no right to murder. This particular
- >individual chose not to go to the hospital and take the pain medication
- >or undergo hopeless operations. I can respect that decision. What I could
- >not do is kill someone because they are in pain. People are not animals to
- >be put our of their misery. If I were dying in agony, I would not want to
- >have my family kill me. I would not want that on their consciences for hte
- >rest of their lives. I would not want to die knowing that my family had
- >killed me.
- >
- And based on what you desire for *you*, you feel fit to decide what
- legislation should be passed to regulate what choices other peopel can
- make for themselves. Mighty arrogant attitude.
-
- >God can and has healed people in the last stages of cancer. Even if I knew
- >for sure that God would not heal someone in my family, I could not kill them.
- >
- Who? Oh, you mean 'Casper the friendly ghost' (Used without
- permission, but if Nadja minds, she'll tell me, I'm sure).
-
- Please provide documentation of an end stage cancer patient
- spontaneously recovering.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
- Member, T.S.A.K.C.
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