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From: arndt@lymph.DEC
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: P****** up a rope for rabit!ark
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Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 10:17:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 19 10:17:15 1984
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Look guy.  If you take the time to read the posting I was NOT drawing a
connection between abortion and slavery!  The WHOLE point of the posting
was that those who oppose abortion do so on the grounds that it is an
important MORAL issue, the same way slavery was a moral issue, so to make
the statement that those who oppose abortion are trying to impose their
views on others begs the question about the degree of MORAL importance one
attaches to the issue.  That is NOT the same thing as saying because slavey
is wrong abortion is wrong!! Got that?  They are two different issues.  The
only thing the same about them is that they involve values.  I could have used
murder, etc.  The crux of the discussion revolves around just this point.
How much of a moral issue is abortion?  Some say the same level as slavery,
murder, etc.  One to go to the wall over.  Others say no it is not.  NO one
is saying there are no issues on which to make such a stand.  Therefore, again,
the criticism of anti-abortionists on the grounds that they are trying to imposetheir views is stupid.

EVERYONE IMPOSES THEIR VIEWS ON ISSUES THAT INVOLVE THE LEVEL OF MORALITY
SEEN IN ISSUES LIKE MURDER, ETC.

"assuming what you attempt to prove" . . . I can only say that you must be
another tech type who slept through phil.101.

But thanks for your  conversation anyway,

Ken Arndt