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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Morality and Democracy
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 00:00:00 1984
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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People who equate the morality of slavery with the morality of abortion
are missing one important fact.  With slavery, as with murder and other
crimes, there is a victim who jumps up and says, "I don't want this done
to me."  A fetus isn't sentient and can no more jump up and complain than
a cow can.

If you want to argue about whether the fetus is sentient, that's fine,
but there is a major difference here, in that nobody can deny the presence
of the complaint with slavery, and nobody can even show evidence for
the complaint with abortion.  (And before you post an article claiming
that the fetus feels pain, let me remind you that what we are talking about
is sentient thought, not pain detection.)
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473