Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: freedom/responsibility Message-ID: <1195@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 18:59:54 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1195 Posted: Wed Jul 10 18:59:54 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:44:22 EDT References: <385@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA>, <329@mit-vax.UUCP> <159@pyuxii.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 20 > And further, it is still > my opinion that abortion for convenience sake is murder. > Some of you folk seem to think that anyone who opposes abortion > is only naturally a red-necked, bible-thumping, war-mongering, > nuke-loving, high school dropout with the intelligence of a > boiled snail. Well, your wrong. The world is not that easily > defined. [WHEELER] Perhaps we should limit such classifying to those who believe that JUST because an abortion is performed for "convenience" sake, it is "murder". However, since no one has successfully come up with other substantive reasons for calling it murder, it would seem that this reasoning (plus "God says it's wrong", to which this form of reasoning is closely tied) forms the bulk of the anti-abortion argument, and as such it is vacuous. Which is why so many anti-abortion types must resort to the chicanery and the base manipulative propaganda devoid of substance that we have seen so much of. -- Like aversion (HEY!), shocked for the very first time... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr