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- From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: ProLife, ProMurder, ProCrime And Iraq
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.011134.25556@ncsu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:11:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.234749.12467@cs.yale.edu>
- rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
-
- > you should really note that I don't believe that there exists
- > any act X of which one could truthfully say that X is immoral.
- > Therefore, it follows that I do not believe that infanticide
- > or abortion is immoral.
-
- Then you must agree that stopping an abortion is not immoral.
- Nor is it immoral to throw an abortionist in jail.
-
- >>> [Pro-lifers] want to tell others what to do.
-
- >> Pro-choicers want to tell others what to do. They want to
- >> tell certain human beings that they must die.
-
- > Nonsense. They wish to permit others to terminate their
- > pregnancies.
-
- Pro-choicers want to be able to tell certain human beings
- what to do.
-
- > Your claim is false on several counts:
- > 1) One doesn't tell fetuses anything during an abortion.
-
- One doesn't 'tell' women anything by passing an anti-abortion law.
-
- > Why would you? They can't understand it.
-
- I was using 'tell' as a metaphor, just like passing a law
- is 'telling' people what to do. Pro-choicers want to be
- able to execute certain human beings, or 'tell' them they
- must die.
-
- > 2) There are pro-choicers who will never have anything to
- > do with an abortion (for instance, they are male and have no
- > contact with medical professionals) and therefore would
- > never tell certain human beings that they must die even given
- > (1).
-
- Pro-lifers would never 'tell' these people that they must not
- obtain an abortion. Therefore, pro-lifers do not wish to
- 'tell' these people what to do.
-
- >-Ekr
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
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