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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: When is a fetus not a person?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.055446.11751@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:54:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.164230.23254@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan24.212831.10859@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan25.050534.28445@rotag.mi.org>
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- In article <1993Jan25.050534.28445@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.212831.10859@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan24.164230.23254@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>>In article <1993Jan24.052258.14213@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>>In article <1993Jan24.012006.20871@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>>>>In article <1993Jan23.182348.7135@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>>>>In article <C19H86.886@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
- >>>>>>>All they want to do is say that if a woman goes
- >>>>>>>into labor at 9 months and then decides while the baby is still inside
- >>>>>>>her that she doesn't want it she can kill it.
- >>>>>>>
- >>>>>>
- >>>>>> [...]
- >>>>>>
- >>>>>>as for your last statement, kindly show where any pro-choicer have
- >>>>>>made such a statement. Or retract it.
- >>>>>
- >>>>>Many Extremist pro-choicers have proudly announced that they support
- >>>>>abortion "at any time, for any reason", Mark. That certainly seems to
- >>>>>cover the hypothetical which Mr. Cobb presented.
- >>>>>
- >>>>No Kebbin. Work on your reading skills. He quite specifically is
- >>>>talking about an abortion performed during a full term labor.
- >>>
- >>>That falls under "at any time", does it not?
- >>>
- >>Back to living ini your fantasy world again, aren't you Kebbin? or is
- >>this just another attempt by you to argue in favor of abortion
- >>restrictions? Certainly, at any time means exactly that.
- >
- >Okay, so by logical deduction,
- >If
- > Pro-choicer X supports the right of a woman to abort "at any time"
- >And
- > "During labor" qualifies under "at any time"
- >Then
- > Pro-choicer X supports the right of a woman to abort during labor
- >Correct?
- >A "yes" or "no" answer will suffice.
- [Whitespace deleted. What a waste]
-
- It's a cute theory, and in theory, yes, Kebbin. In practice you're
- going to have a hard time pretending that the situation has ever
- come up. We *are* talking about reality here, aren't we Kebbin?
-
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