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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: "The child of a fiend"
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 10:21:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 10:21:49 1985
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In article <5986@cbscc.UUCP> pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul M. Dubuc) writes:
> In the pro-choice film that followed "Concieved in Liberty",
> a woman related the story of how she had been the victim
> of a rape that resulted in pregnancy.  In her final remarks
> she condemned the anti-abortion view as being one that would
> "force her to bear the child of a fiend".  While not trying
> in any way to lessen the heinous nature of the crime of rape,
> I couldn't help but notice that her statement implied that
> she had projected her hatred for the rapist onto his child.
> Is this a legitimate thing to do?

Is human psychology "legitimate"?

I can easily understand how a pregnancy as a result of a rape would serve
as a constant and humiliating reminder of a very painful episode.

> Does the child conceived as the result of rape or incest somehow bear
> some the responsibility for the crime?

This sounds awfully funny coming from someone who probably believes in
Original Sin and "sins of the fathers".

To my mind, no.  But to my mind, it's an irrelevant question.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh


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