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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
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Summary: 

In article <217@decwrl.UUCP> umina@darts.DEC writes:
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>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".