arndt@squirt.DEC (03/07/84)
From: SMURF::ARNDT 6-MAR-1984 16:53 To: SQUIRT::ARNDT Subj: Scott R Scott Renner, you are really too much. Let me just walk you through what you sent me. "You ask for a difference between human life in the womb and human life outside of it. I think the point is irrelevant." (I assume that what follows is you supporting argument) "If the fetus is not human, then surely it has no rights." (Agreed. No HUMAN rights) "If it is human, then it does have rights, but no more than any other person." (Agreed. ) "In particular it does not have any right to occupy the body of the mother." (I can't picture a human fetus with human rights that doesn't have the right to exist in the only place where it CAN exist or by the very nature of things where it DOES exist! Isn't that sort of like saying to a human "You have the right to exist but not on this earth!"? Scott baby, lighten up. Give the poor fetus you agree for the sake of argument is human SOMEPLACE to exist! I'd hate to have you for a landlord.) Your next paragraph is a real chiller. You admit (as I always suspected of pro-abortion folks) that you kill for less than the defense of your life. Sad, Sad. Ain't you got no religion? Hope I never get in your way. But then I'd be defending my life and (with great sadness) kill you first. Regards,
renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner ) (03/08/84)
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uiucdcs!renner Mar 8 01:17:00 1984
The article entitled "Flash for Scott Renner" is an annotated copy of
some of my personal mail, posted to news without my consent. I suspect
that he was ignorant of net etiquette forbidding this; I also suspect
that he would have done it regardless. The author did such a poor job
of editing the letter that I don't think many people will pay attention to it.
The same author wrote the rather ugly attack on Sophie Quigley, and the
subsequent "apology". All of his "contributions" to the net arrive here
with mangled headers, so that it appears that various innocents at decwrl!
are the authors. In fact, his address is ihnp4!decwrl!rhea!squirt!arndt.
He has signed some of his articles with the name "Ken Arndt", others are
(perhaps appropriately) left unsigned.
I wish you luck with this clown. As for me, I'm checking out of the
abortion firefight.
Scott Renner
{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner