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From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Perhaps my question isn't so simple
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Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 00:44:49 EST
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>In article <662@bunker.UUCP> garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes:
>> kjm writes: 
>>> I have been struck by the similarity between abortion and
>>> carnivorism.  In both cases, there are some people who feel
>>> that the action in question is morally equivalent to murder,
>>> because it involves the desctruction of an organism that
>>> is conscious and can feel pain.  In fact, some would go as
>>> far to say that a year-old cat, for instance, is at least
>>> as aware of its surroundings as a new-born baby.
>>
>>> So here is my question again:  given that substantial numbers
>>> of people do not believe that abortion is murder, what
>>> argument can you give me that abortion should be illegal
>>> that I cannot also use as an argument that killing animals
>>> should be illegal?

Actually, Andrew Koenig wrote the above, not me.  (Kudos where
it is due...)

>                                Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

--
The above viewpoints are mine.  They are unrelated to
those of anyone else, including my cats and my employer.

Ken Montgomery  "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
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