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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: The Status of the Fetus and Its Rights
Message-ID: <11232@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 08:18:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 08:18:05 1985
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> In article <998@brl-tgr.ARPA> matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) writes:
> >I refuse to treat a class of beings that once included myself as we
> >treat germs or bugs or worms.
> 
> I don't blame you. The Bible spends a lot of ink discussing how the
> humans are somehow "above" the "animals" (despite behavior to prove
> otherwise :-). It's tough to accept the fact that we're just another
> mammal.
> 
You are of course speaking for yourself I assume?
> 
> You can wave your little flag and scream "godless communists" until your
> (red white and) blue in the face, but the fact remains that China will
> probably successfully curb the worst overpopulation in the world, while
> ours gets worse. If the US were to ban abortion, thus increasing our
> population, they would consider it equally as immoral as their methods
> of controlling population.
> 
> -- 
> Charles Forsythe
> CSDF@MIT-VAX

Well your colors are out and flying high.  You have declared above that
abortion is a method of controlling population, in addition to getting rid
of unwanted pregnancies.  I shudder when I think of what you have said.  Do
you feel reasonably special or fortunate or even lucky that you were not
singled out before birth to do your part in controlling population?