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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Human beings and their Rights
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 09:50:37 EDT
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> 	More justification should be required to pass a
> law which restricts an individual's freedom to do whatever he/she
> pleases than not to pass such a law.  Thus the onus of justification
> should be on the pro-lifers to show it is necessary that abortions
> be restricted.   [JIM GORDON, SR.]

BRA-VO!!!  Thank you for so eloquently diffusing the arbitrary perspective
of people like Rosenblatt who seem to think it's the other way around!

> 	There is a similar principle in science which states that
> extraordinary proof must be provided for extraordinary claims.  Thus
> more evidence must be shown to prove that ESP exists than to prove
> that objects will drop when you let them go.

You've obviously never read net.origins or the net.religion newsgroups, :-)
where there are more than a few who don't understand this simple principle.
(Recommended reading on the subject:  Hofstadter's "World Views in Collision"
article, originally from SciAm, reproduced in "Metamagical Themas")

> 	In the case of abortion rights, the onus is on the one who
> wishes to pass a law against abortion to show that it is the right
> thing to do, not on the ones who would be adversely affected by such a
> law to show that it shouldn't be passed; just as it is up to the
> proposer of a scientific law to prove it is correct, not not the
> skeptic to prove it false.

Again, thank you.
-- 
Providing the mininum daily adult requirement of sacrilege...
				Rich Rosen 	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr