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- From: brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:27:37 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Steve Adams writes:
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- > Paul Brinkley writes:
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- >>...This is why I sought to moderate Suzanne's and Steve's arguments. Suzanne
- >>made abortion seem horrible by linking it to the Holocaust; Steve argued
- >>that abortion is quite mild in comparison to it. In a way, both were right.
- >>In a way, both were wrong. I hoped to point out these ways, and in the
- >>process bring the emotion out of it.
- >
- >Hmm. I don't think this is what I meant. I pointed out the difference in
- >the two situations. One of them was a concerted effort by one man (or a
- >small group of people) to kill off entire classes of people. The other is
- >millions of individual decisions.
-
- That's a whoops on my part. You're right; I remember you saying that. Sorry
- 'bout the mix-up...
-
- >I don't like either one, being that I object to abortion on personal
- >religious grounds, but each abortion is a personal decision made by the
- >woman. There is no single person, or small group of persons, forcing
- >abortions on anyone. And as a supporter of liberty, I can't deny a woman
- >the right to control her own body.
-
- I see what you mean, of course. If this was just so much cancerous tissue,
- then for me to say she can't remove it would be ludicrous. I, on the other
- hand, am still convinced that it's a human life, and so I have no choice but
- to vote in favor of the child for the present.
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- Paul Brinkley
- brinkley@cs.utexas.edu
- Pro-Thought Advocate
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