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From: raghu@rlgvax.UUCP (Raghu Raghunathan)
Newsgroups: net.abortion,net.politics,net.religion,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Re: Abortion and Capital Punishment
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Date: Fri, 23-Nov-84 16:41:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 23 16:41:32 1984
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> >  
> > I have never heard such a evil thing on this network before.  I can't believe
> > people really think like this.  I hope no one else out there has this demented
> > view of children, whether you are pro-abortion or not.  Does this man propose
> > that we set ourselves up higher than any other authority and kill children 
> > because they can't take care of themselves?  I just can't believe anyone could
> > say such a thing!
> 
	I am not for killing children at will; but just for the sake for
	argument consider this: If you hold that it is immoral to kill
	children because they cannot take care of themselves, why isn't it
	immoral to kill animals for the same reason? Why do people believe it
	is ok for humans to set themselves as higher authorities over animals
	which depend on them, but not against other humans who also depend on
	them.

	To carry it further; When a baboon is killed and it's heart transplanted
	in a human, it is hailed as a scientific breakthrough; but can you
	imagine what the reaction from the world community would be if a human
	baby (however sick or retarted) were to be killed so it's heart can
	be transplanted in a baboon, which would be an equally great scientific
	breakthrough?
								- raghu