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From: jbf@ccieng5.UUCP (Jens Bernhard Fiederer)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: stop imposing your ethics on US
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Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 18:43:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 11 18:43:44 1984
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>That's what really galls me about this whole subject.  No one is trying
>to force any woman to have an abortion she doesn't want.  Some of us merely
>want to prevent fanatics from forcing their morals on others.
>
>The right answer, if there is one, is not all at clear.  Those of you who
>would deny others' rights, can't you see that?  This is not a clear cut
>issue, on which the vast majority of sane adults can agree.  The one simple,
>obvious conclusion you CAN draw immediately, given that state of affairs,
>is that you fanatics should back off.  Stop threatening the rest of us
>by trying to make us live by your ethics.

Unfortunately, an anti-abortion person is not likely to view himself as
trying to step on somebody else's rights.  Under the premise that the
fetus is a human, and abortion is killing, this makes it sound like
Nazi Germany protesting:
	But nobody is asking you other countries to kill YOUR jews.
	Stop trying to make us live by your ethics.

Note that I don't consider the two situations analogous, because the Nazis
wasted a precious resource, while the abortionists merely kill insignificant
feti.  But for anyone who places a high value on human life PER SE, the
situations are analogous.  They owe it to themselves to speak up to prevent
what they consider an atrocity.

Nasreddin Hodja
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