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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Ken Arndt is right about at least one thing...
Message-ID: <3496@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 01:17:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 28 01:17:19 1985
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Ken has made an important point, which many people on both sides overlook:

	If you believe abortion is murder,
	then it is INCONSISTENT to condemn
	the people who are bombing abortion clinics.

Here is a hypothetical similar situation:  suppose that some
criminal organization was rounding up people by the millions
and executing them, with the full sanction of the government,
and that the places where these executions took place were
widely known.  Suppose also that some anonymous collection of
people took it upon themselves to try to stem the tide by blowing
up some of these buildings.  Certainly the enormity of the
situation would give moral justification to such desperate action.

Therefore, when Reagan says that he believes that abortion is
murder, and then goes on to condemn the violence directed at
those who pracice it, he is making two statements THAT CANNOT
BOTH BE TRUE AT ONCE!  He is lying about one or the other.

I don't know which one it is.