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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Legal control
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:43:27 -0800
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- In article <lmdph0INNati@sahara.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
- >Thanks to this %$@#%^ newsreader (trn), I can't post anything that has more
- >quoted text than what I add.
-
- Try substituting something else for the >>s.
-
-
- >Understood. At first this seemed to be a moral/ethical type discussion; my
- >posts seem to have steered it into the legal arena for the time being.
-
- I specifically asked how you would vote. You are certainly entitled to your
- personal opinion as is any person on this net, and I wouldn't dream of attemp-
- ting to change your mind, AS LONG AS we are just taking about your personal
- opinion. However, I asked about your VOTE. Now, that's a private matter,
- and you can say, "None of your business" with impunity. But what you said,
- and what I gather from the text you wrote this time, too, was that the
- POSSIBILITY that the fetus is a human being (and you haven't even solved
- this thoroughly for your own self!) was enough for you to vote to REDUCE
- the HUMAN RIGHTS of the woman involved. I'm arguing with that *vote*.
-
- >Understood. I only felt it necessary to make clear that I do not wish to
- >offend.
-
- Fine. I have noted (as long as we are talking about subjective analyses (-:)
- that when people are asked hard questions, questions that reach down into
- areas they haven't considered completely, or areas where contradictions hide,
- they get a little upset, and respond accordingly. That's about the time
- where we see them calling other people 'emotional'. I believe (Bill
- Overpeck, you will correct me if I'm wrong, won't you?) that's called
- "projection." Think about it.
-
- I don't have any wish to offend, either. I certainly do wish to question
- your beliefs to the point of causing you doubt, and reconsideration. I
- also use caps and asterisks and underlines to highlight the words I would
- stress were I speaking. Some people read that as shouting. I consider them
- to be unimaginative. (-: Now that we are all cordial, we can continue.
-
- Adrienne Regard
-
-