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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: The Status of the Fetus and Its Rights
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 01:43:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 01:43:22 1985
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>>I think you got it right.  The abortion issue is a clash between two sets of
>>moral values.  However, I think the positions of the pro-lifers and
>>pro-choicers are asymmetrical.  Whereas the anti-abortionist are trying
>>to impose their moral code on the pro-choice side, the pro-choice side
>>does not attempt to coerce the other side to conform to its moral code.[YOSI]

> I don't see why this makes any difference.  To make the pro-life analogy for
> a moment (equating aborting mothers with rapists and fetuses with the
> victims), we get a situation which is equally assymetrical. [WINGATE]

Another equally interesting analogy compares anti-abortionists with airplane
pilots and pro-choice people with hair stylists.

Yosi wasn't making an analogy.  He was stating a fact.  The fact that you
would make use of a startlingly inappropriate and arbitrary analogy in an
attempt to rebut Yosi's point, frankly, does not surprise me anymore.  The
lengths (depths?) to which you go! ...
-- 
Life is complex.  It has real and imaginary parts.
					Rich Rosen  ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr


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