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From: hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Abortions and Reducing Them
Message-ID: <446@oliven.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 20:08:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 20:08:20 1984
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> For those of you who maintain that
>abortion == murder, but then say that the woman should not be tried for
>murder, please justify. 

Both the women and the doctor should be prosecuted.  As it is pre-meditated, it
should probably be treated as murder in the first degree.

>Furthermore, all the anger that I see from the anti-abortion
>group, about pro-choice people are condoning murder 

*IF* the fetus is a human being, what else would you call it.

> But perhaps such tactics is 
>only natural given the unpersuasive arguments that the anti-abortionists
>have.

Speaking of strongly persuasive arguments . . . 

>Personally I wonder how many of the anti-abortionists are also
>those who support school-prayers, creation "science",etc,who are also
>generally claiming that they want the government off the peoples backs(
>flames to net.politics)! 

I'm not.  And if I were, so what?

>I suspect all these noise about fetus rights
>are mere disguise for some people to impose their morals and beliefs
>on others. (For those who are totally sincere on fetus rights -- well
>I respect your view, but I don't agree with it). But I am digressing.

I really can't see someone supporting a cause for no other reason than to
inflict their beliefs.  I will, however, take a stand against those who oppose
abortion simply because they've been told to without giveing the matter serious
thought.

>But there are other reasons
>too, like if the fetus is diagnosed to be malformed (among some parents
>who have a high risk due to their genetics, many of them would use
>abortion to try for a second, third, or fourth time to get a non-malformed
>baby, many  would not have the  courage to try for a second time if
>they have had a malformed one), 

Are you saying that malformed babies are less valuable, or that if they are
people they should have less rights?
-- 
   rick                                     (Rick Hawkins @ Olivetti ATC)
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