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From: dave@teldata.UUCP (Dave Heppner)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: death or life?
Message-ID: <254@teldata.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 11:18:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 11:18:02 1984
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Kill, Kill, Kill.

Under what conditions should we and do we allow  someone  to
kill  or be killed. I noticed in one of the articles that it
was stated that it is alright to kill under  certain  condi-
tions. I find the idea very scary.

Who decides you lives and who dies? Do we do it  by  popular
vote?  How  about  by  class?  The problem I see is we could
repeat history. In Germany, before the war to end all  wars,
they  had  abortions,  and  I  would  think  that the people
stopped finding that objectionable. Once  that  happened  it
was easyer to start doing away with the Jews since they were
the reason for all of the problems?  I would think that once
that  started  it  was easy to use them as a scapegoat.  The
people of Germany, not all the people, since they could  get
rid of one class of person it was probably easyer to get rid
of another. This is not a slam against the German people, my
contention  is  it  could happen to any people. But could it
happen here?

This is a very simplistic view and it  is  not  intended  to
change  view  points but to cause you to think about were we
have come from and were we are going. The thing I  fear  the
most is went I am old and gray, social security has run out,
I can not work and I am just a bother  to  have  around,  is
society  going  to say it was O.K. to kill under that condi-
tion (abortion) so it is probably O.K. to kill the  old  and
helpless.  Besides  it costs to much money and takes to much
time to  feed  them,  protect  them  from  the  thieves  and
muggers, and they do not contribute anything to society any-
way. Twenty years ago it was bad to have  an  abortion,  now
it's  O.K.  Twenty years from now will it be O.K. to do away
with me?

Have we started down a road that will lead  us  to  destruc-
tion?   When,  how,  and  who  will say we will not kill any
more? If it is alright to kill who is going  to  decide  who
sets the conditions?

                        With respect for life,
                        Dave Heppner.