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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: When is a fetus not a person?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.024937.7710@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan24.212831.10859@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan25.050534.28445@rotag.mi.org> <C1FtDt.J1z@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:49:37 GMT
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- In article <C1FtDt.J1z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
- >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"
- >
- >Not even *you* can be THAT rediculous. Technically, and out of context,
- >"at any time" also includes years after birth. Most people don't consider
- >it to be "abortion" at that point.
-
- I interpret "at any time" in the context in which it has been posted, as
- "at any time during pregnancy".
-
- You and I can speculate till the cows come home what exactly is meant by
- "at any time". The ultimate clarification must come from those who profess
- this viewpoint. Cathi? Linda? Susie? Care to speak up?
-
- >It is not really for you to say what someone *else* means by a simplified
- >statement of their position.
-
- Given my current provisional understanding of "at any time", and a little
- deduction, I think there are some pro-choicers here who would allow abortion
- during labor without there being any demonstrable threat to the mother's life.
- At the same time, of course, I'm willing to _change_ that view on the basis of
- further clarification of the term "at any time". Live and learn.
-
- >You would also do well to notice:
- >#############################################################################
- >In article <C19H86.886@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) w
- >rites:
- >That would make the arguments significantly tougher. BUt, I am at least open
- >to the idea, strange as it may seem to some, that abortion is ok up to 14 days,
- >or implantation. I know, though, that no one would want to take the debate
- >down to those fourteen days. 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.
- >#############################################################################
- >
- >You can see from the complete context (ok, *more* complete) that Mike is
- >trying to imply that *all* pro-choicers (non-pro-lifers actually) would
- >support "abortion" durring labor. Although there may be a few people who
- >would support that, it is hardly true of *most* pro-choice people. Claiming
- >a few extreem examples is far from showing it the case for *everyone* as was
- >claimed.
-
- Do you interpret "they" in that last sentence as "all pro-choicers; every
- last one of them"?
-
- - Kevin
-