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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: The Status of the Fetus and Its Rights
Message-ID: <707@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 10:15:46 EDT
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In article <998@brl-tgr.ARPA> matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) writes:
> 
> See Steven Mosher's article in the latest Human Life Review.  Mr. Mosher is
> the man who visited China as a Stanford anthropology student, wrote about
> forced abortions and government infanticide that the Communists use to
> enforce their one-child-per-family rule, and had his Ph.D. revoked by
> frightened academics who feared that the Chinese would no longer let in
> American anthropologists.

Somehow I doubt the situation was as simple as this: there was a big scandal
as I recall.

> Fetuses have been removed by rounding up pregnant
> women, throwing them bound hand and foot into cages, loading the cages onto
> trucks, tying them to operating tables, and performing abortions -- right
> up to the due date.  A woman has twins -- one of the babies is taken from
> her and put to death.  We convicted Nazis of war crimes for doing things
> like that.

In the United States, we are talking about pro CHOICE, not government
dictated abortion or infanticide.  Both pro-choicers and pro-lifers
would oppose these practices.  So?

> South Africa doesn't even do things like that to control their
> slave population.  Yet the Marxist "wave of the future," in the country
> we are trying so hard to be friends with and trade with, DEMANDS that women
> remove the fetuses within them.

This is the stupidest argument I've seen in quite a while.  Forced abortion
is no more characteristic of Marxism than inquisitions are of Christianity.
Give us a break.
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