Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: I was a teenaged pregancy Message-ID: <5874@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 08:36:55 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscc.5874 Posted: Wed Sep 11 08:36:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 09:54:27 EDT References: <711@gitpyr.UUCP> <390@scirtp.UUCP> <5839@cbscc.UUCP> <1212@ihlpg.UUCP> Reply-To: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (unix-Paul Dubuc,x7836,1L244,59472) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 35 In article <1212@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes: >> [Paul Dubuc] >> Deciding that one's own life wasn't worth saving is one thing >> (though one wonders why, if they had it so bad, they still >> think its better to live) but deciding that, based on your own >> example, the lives of others born under similar circumstances >> aren't worth saving either comes pretty close to playing God. >> Just because you think your life was bad doesn't mean others >> who haven't really had the chance to live it yet will think so >> too. At least you had the chance to live your life and decide >> for yourself *about your own life*. I'd like to see everyone >> have that same chance. >------- >The same argument Paul uses here against abortion can be used >with equal validity in favor of promiscuity and/or prostitution. > >1) Right-to-lifer to child of prostitute by customer: > "How would you feel if your mother had had you aborted?" > >2) Me, to same child: > "How would you feel if your mother had chosen another line of work? > >I know its dumb, but it makes just as much sense as your argument, Paul. My focus is not on how anyone feels. It is mainly on wheter or not we have the right to decide (based on our own personal experience or whatever) wheter or not another person's life is worth living and allow that she be killed. In the case of an abortion there is an existing life that is being killed. Abortion has an object (i.e. the fetus). There is no object when the woman has never even gotten pregnant. -- Paul Dubuc cbscc!pmd