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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Re: Whose life anyway?
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 22:02:17 EDT
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> Chris Andersen, responding to someone else:
> 
> > 	First, and most importantly, I wasn't aborted [need I point this out?].
> 
> Yes, you do.  It isn't altogether obvious these days.
> 
> > 	Second, if I had been aborted, I wouldn't be around to wonder about
> > whether I should have been aborted or not.
> 
> Not necessarily so.  There have been abortions -- perhaps I should say
> attempted abortions -- in which the fetus survived, and was later adopted.
> 
> But in any case, the same argument would justify murder -- e.g., I
> haven't been murdered, and if I had been murdered, I wouldn't be
> around to wonder whether I should have been murdered.  Now, aren't
> you glad you haven't been murdered?

Oh but you are forgetting that before I am murdered, I do have the ability
to set up defenses (ie laws) to prevent myself from being murdered.  I know
that I can be murdered, so I can do something to prevent it.
However, a fetus does not know that it can be aborted so it can't sit around
pondering the possibility of it happening.

> 
> Gary Samuelson
> ittvax!bunker!garys

Chris Andersen
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