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From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt )
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: To Steve Smith
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 17:17:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 17:17:26 1985
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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."