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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: The issue is abortion, not choice
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:29:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.002031.13994@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >The label "anti-choice" is not a correct characterization of
- >the pro-life position. The label implies that pro-lifers are
- >opposed to the choice to "terminate a pregnancy", which is false.
- >They are opposed to an action which results in the death of an
- >innocent human being. If it were possible to transfer the child
- >to another person's care without killing the child, then few
- >pro-lifers would be opposed to the choice to "terminate a pregnancy".
- Neither would many pro-choicers.
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- >The label "pro-abortion" is a correct characterization of the
- >pro-choice position.
- Ratshit.
-
- >Pro-choicers not only want the right to
- >choose to "terminate a pregnancy", but also the right to choose
- >to have the child executed in the womb if the child happens to be
- >mentally retarded or physically handicapped or of the wrong sex.
- Even were this true, it would not follow that the position was
- pro-abortion.
-
- In fact, I, for one, support the right to terminate a pregnancy
- in the circumstances you mention. I don't know what "to have
- the child executed in the womb" except that you are indulging
- in cheap emotionalism.
-
- -Ekr
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