Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpg!tan From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: I was a teenaged pregancy Message-ID: <1230@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 13:12:58 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1230 Posted: Thu Sep 12 13:12:58 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 04:27:59 EDT References: <711@gitpyr.UUCP> <390@scirtp.UUCP> <5839@cbscc.UUCP> <1212@ihlpg.UUCP> <5874@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 31 > >[Me] > >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. ----- > [Paul Dubuc] > 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. ----- Fine. I did not mean to imply that your entire anti-abortion argument was dumb. I was referring only to the oft-heard argument "If your mother had aborted you, you would not be alive. What do you think about abortion now?" I have heard some right to lifers argue "What if 's mother had had him aborted?" These same argument could be used against contraception, fidelity, and chastity. The destruction of the fetus is, as it should be, the crux of the argument to outlaw abortion. -- Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL ihnp4!ihlpg!tan