Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1m!bermes From: bermes@ihu1m.UUCP (Terry Bermes) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Discussion vs. Convincing Message-ID: <234@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 13:33:41 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1m.234 Posted: Wed Jan 16 13:33:41 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:00:04 EST References: <217@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 19 >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 As a pro-lifer, I feel this argument does much harm and no good to the pro-life movement. Meaningless speculation about what type of person might have been born is just that, meaningless. There are many other points that a pro-lifer can use to support his/her position (I won't go into the specifics because that's not the point of this posting). The pro-choice movement, if any of them would choose to argue this point, could point out the possibility of abortions preventing untold numbers of Hitlers and various other abominable people from perpetrating untold horrors upon the people of this world. Terry Bermes