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From: daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: References to the Holocaust
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 15:09:36 EST
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I cannot fathom why people in this newsgroup continually equate the abortion
issue with euthanasia, the holocaust, etc.

The basic difference in position between the "pro-choice" and "pro-life"
factions as I have observed them on the net is not whether murder is right
or wrong, but rather the question, "is abortion murder?"

Any comparisons to mercy killing, the Crusades, Son of Sam, and other acts
involving killing are not connected in any way to this issue.

And then there's the response, "If abortion is legal, then what's to stop
people from killing the old and infirm, etc., ad nauseum.  This is like
saying, "If I can drive a car, what's to stop me from eating cauliflower."
This is a non-sequiter.

It reminds me of the main argument against marijuana, "That it leads to
the use of stronger drugs."  This may or may not be fact, but the logic
is faulty.  Anything MAY lead to anything!

Note:  I do not condone drug use.  I am trying to make a point.  

If a standpoint is defensible on its own grounds, using rational arguments
and documented facts, why oh why must these tangential issues be raised,
and emotionally loaded logic used? e.g. "Nazis were bad, Nazis did abortions,
therefore abortions are bad."  This is clearly ridiculous, easily illustrated 
since by the same logic, "All abortionists are Nazis" is also true.

Present your evidence.  Preserve the memory of the Holocaust.
But please please please please PLEASE do not equate things that are not equal.


Dave "just the facts, Ma'am" Richards