Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!matt From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: To Steve Smith Message-ID: <478@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 17:17:26 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.478 Posted: Tue Aug 6 17:17:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 00:13:39 EDT References: <3449@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 25 KEN ARNDT writes to STEVE SMITH: > > I agree with most of your posting about the flame content on this net. > However, the argument turns EXACTLY upon the issue of whether or not > the act of abortion IS murder!!! The actual taking of a human life for > reasons not having to do with another life in balance (vs the quality - a > phoney issue - of another life). Mr. Arndt, I'm as anti-abortion as anyone on this net, having been willing to forbid abortion EVEN IF the fetus is not a human life merely to protect the father's right to procreate. But "murder" is a technical legal term, not equivalent to what you say it is. (Example: you wake up at night and hear a noise in the hall. You grab your NRA-approved shotgun from under your pillow. A Burglar, complete with eye-mask and sack, enters your bedroom door. BLAM!!! Killing a human? Yes. Murder? No, even if he had no weapon, and your life was not in the balance.) "Murder" is what the LAW says murder is, since it is a legal term. Even when abortion was illegal, abortionists were not charged with murder. You want abortion to be murder? Get the law changed to make it so! Me, I don't care what they call it so long as they stop it. -- Matt Rosenblatt "Hocus, locus, jocus", meaning, "To the landlord belong the doorknobs."