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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: alternatives...(population stress reactions)
Message-ID: <19425@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Apr-84 20:56:21 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 22 20:56:21 1984
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Martin Taylor is surely being facetious when he attempts to link the
modern practice of abortion to population pressures!  Even given the
neo-Malthusian problems in his argument, I find it hard to accept the
idea that most modern (middle-class, urban, working) women are aborting
fetuses for reasons of overpopulation (overcrowding in their condos,
perhaps?)

Also, I just don't understand how people argue problems of ethics
from scientific Darwinian evidence!  Human lives may or may not be
"precious" to Nature, given floods, population pressures, natural
disasters, etc.  But that does not address the issues of how we are
to treat each other, unless one wishes to abandon ethics entirely
in deference to the Natural Order.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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