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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: inconsistencies
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 20:04:11 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  6 20:04:11 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.
>>

> Not really.  It is INCONSISTENT to condemn people who believe abortion is
> murder from acting within the LAW on their beliefs (a point that I don't
> feel anyone has overlooked), but it is not inconsistant to expect everyone,
> on each side of the issue or in the middle, to act within the laws of our
> country.

If you believe abortion is a form of mass murder, then you have
absolutely no right to insist that people use only legal means
to try to stop it.

If the government were rounding up random citizens and shooting them,
and people started bombing the executioners' offices, would you
say that they shouldn't do that because it's illegal?  Have you
heard of Auschwitz?

My point is that if you condemn the bombers, then you do not
believe that abortion is such a terrible crime as to require
people to act outside the law.  But surely mass murder would
require extra-legal action.  Thus I stand by my earlier statement.