Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Morality and Democracy Message-ID: <227@looking.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: looking.227 Posted: Wed Dec 12 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 06:23:41 EST References: <132@tekchips.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 14 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