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From: norm@ariel.UUCP (N.ANDREWS)
Newsgroups: net.abortion,net.politics,net.religion,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Abortion and Capital Punishment
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 10:17:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 10:17:45 1984
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> 	The reason I am against abortion and for capital punishment is that
> this is what the Bible teaches.  The Bible says that human beings are
> created in the image of God and that the taking of innocent human life is
> wrong, so abortion is wrong.  In the case of capital punishment, God's 
> law requires that an individual should forefit his/her own life for taking 
> another's life for the exact same reason i.e. humans are created in
> the image of God and therefore human life is sacred.  The murderer is not
> innocent and the state is required to execute the individual as punishment
> for taking another person's life.
> 	It's interesting how some confuse the issues of abortion and
> capital punishment and mistakenly believe if you are against one you should 
> be against the other.  While they both involve the taking of life, the
> abortionist is performing the act of a murderer and not that of the state 
> which carries out an execution.  As a result the abortionist should be 
> tried for murder and the penalty for the crime handed out.
> Tom Albrecht 		Burroughs Corp.
> 			...{presby|psuvax|sdcrdcf}!burdvax!bnapl
>
>
I don't give a a damn "what the Bible teaches".  Abortion is NOT murder.  Those
who advocate the trial and execution of abortionists are the real advocates of
murder, and that includes YOU, Tom Albrect.  It is a very serious thing for
you to advocate murder.  Apparently you are willing to do so "because this is
what the Bible teaches".  You say, "The Bible says that human beings are
created in the image of God and that the taking of innocent human life is
wrong, so abortion is wrong. ... the abortionist is performing the act of a
murderer..."  The Bible may say that humans are created in the image of God,
but so what?  There is no God.  And the rest of the statements are just as
ridiculous.  How anyone can jump from 'humans are created in God's image' to
"human fetuses are human beings possesing rights" is beyond me.  The mis-called
"right-to-life"ers are really "right-to-murder-or-advocate-murder-for-anyone-
-who-disagrees-with-my-ridiculous-interpretation-of-a-ridiculous-book"ers.  If
someone believes in "what the Bible teaches", there's very little point in
trying to explain to them a philosophical basis for the concept of rights...
-Norm Andrews  (My opinions are my own, not the Bible's or my employer's...)