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From: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski)
Newsgroups: net.suicide,net.religion,net.abortion
Subject: Re: A modest proposal
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Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 17:36:40 EST
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Summary: Thou shalt not commit murder.

In article <1248@jhunix.UUCP> ins_apmj@jhunix.ARPA (Patrick M Juola) writes:
>In article <274@l5.uucp> laura@l5.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>>not. If a fetus is a huamn being at 6 months, but not at 6 weeks, then
>>an abortion is a murder at 6 months and an abortion is not murder at
>>6 weeks.  This is the whole issue.
>
>guilt.  In this context, the "human" discussion is pointless, since the
>commandment reads "Thou shalt not kill," not "Thou shalt not kill humans."
>						Pat Juola

When last I checked in the Interpreter's Bible, the term used originally
meant "the unlawful slaying of a fellow tribesperson" which is how
"righteous people" can go around slaying all them folks in the next
territory over.  Very much a legal definition of murder.  Certainly
not used then to include abortion.  Check it out with your clergy.

Dick

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