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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
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> 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