Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!act From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Discussion vs. Convincing Message-ID: <1594@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 19:31:35 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1594 Posted: Wed Jan 16 19:31:35 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:22:51 EST References: <217@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: act@pur-phy.UUCP Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 14 Summary: In article <217@decwrl.UUCP> umina@darts.DEC writes: > > ... > >3. I am sure the loss we, as a society, would have been at a loss had > you been an aborted fetus. You are obviously intelligent, and a > contributor, and may someday be responsible for improving the human > condition. One wonders just how many others, the Bachs, Eiensteins, > etc... have not been allowed the chance to contribute, and how things > would be today if they had This argument is not very good. One can just as well ask how many Hitlers, Stalins, Pol Pots and so forth we have lost through abortions, and how things would have been today if they had lived to make *their* "contributions".