[net.abortion] Re**2: Replies to Paul Dubuc

kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (12/18/84)

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>Warning:  I am not treating this reply from Ken Montgomery very seriously.

OK, I won't take you very seriously either.

>}>[Paul Dubuc in <4181@cbscc.UUCP>]
>}> ...
>}>This requires at least a minimum amount of responsiblity on the part of
>}>the parents.  A mother can't just turn her 2 year old out and say "Go
>}>support yourself".
>}
>}Why not?
>
>Good answer, Ken.  They should put you in charge of the orphanages :-).
>Am I taking you as seriously  as you're taking me?  I think so.

OK, I'll come to you for money to support all the little kiddies... :-)

> ...
>Now that we've redefined human reproduction into parasitism let me ask
>why the mother's body isn't the object also for the two year old?  The
>financial and health strains on the mother (and father too!) can be
>just as great, if not greater.  Unless you think two-year-olds are
>self sustaining.

The fact that the child cannot live on its own does not give it the
right to be supported.

> ...
>}If you're grossed out by medical procedures, don't watch them.
>
>I agree, and if doctors and medical technicians get grossed out by them
>they shouldn't do them.  Especially abortionists.  Show them all the
>film! :-)

Back to Liz Allen's "icky-poo" argument again!

> ...
>You were saying that "cats also react to pain" implying that there
>is no difference between killing a cat and a fetus because of this.
>What interpretation of the events *were* you proposing?

I was proposing that pain per se was not a valid criterion.

>}>There certainly is as much evidence that this 10 week old fetus is as
>}>aware of its death as my 10 month old daugher would be.  Killing one
>}>is abortion, the other, murder.  What's the difference?
>}
>}Your ten-month-old daughter is no longer a parasite.
>
>Thank you.  I'm sure she'll be glad to hear it.

I doubt she has sufficient command of a human language at 10 months
to understand you if you told her.  Or is she, like you, some kind
of precocious super-genius? :-)

> ...
>}>Then why is the killing of humans outside the womb "unthinkable"?
>}
>}The unwanted fetus is tresspassing on its mother's property.  If
>}killing it is the only way to remove it when she wants it gone,
>}too bad.  Born humans are (normally) *not* tresspassing.
>
>We went through all of this by mail, Ken, and you didn't give
>me and answer then.  Do you want to go through it again?

I did not receive a reply to the last letter I sent you.  I presume
that some mailer daemon ate either it or your reply.  BTW, your
answer is at the '>}' level above.

>}>}Why does society even have a role in the decision?
>}>
>}>Maybe because the killing of humans isn't normally regarded as
>}>permissable on an individual basis?  Especially if the killing
>}>is without sufficient reason (e.g. self defense).
>}
>}Expelling a parasite from one's body is a variety of self defense.
>
>So your mother gave birth to you in self defense?

If she hadn't, she'd have been in quite a fix, wouldn't she?


>}>[Paul Dubuc in <4182@cbscc.UUCP>]
> ...
>}> After that it grows on its own.
>}
>}No.  It requires a very complicated support system: the uterus,
>}plus the rest of the woman's body.  Thus it is not growing "on
>}its own".
>
>Then neither do we.  We require a complicated support system called
>an ecosystem.

A woman is a person (and thus has the right to control her property).
An ecosystem is not a person.

> ...
>**********End of fooling around****************(I hope)************
>
>Well It's late.  I think I'll deserve flames for this from everyone
>execpt Ken.  I have included the total of Ken's response to me in
>this, my response to him.  I haven't edited any of it so I haven't
>taken him out of context (can't say that Ken has done the same for
>me, however).

I prune net articles and mail messages in an attempt to keep them
from growing exponentially.  If I thereby take you out of context,
kindly correct me.  I have slashed this posting mercilessly, and
it's still rather long.

> I have responed in kind with no hard feelings (Really).

Same here...  Except for the above comment about contexts.

>It's good not to be so serious all the time, I guess.

I guess... :-)

>I admit my response here is mostly in jest.  But I don't make a jest
>out of the abortion issue.  I do appreciate honest discussion on
>this issue.  I haven't given up on that yet.  It's important.

Yes.

>And it is late...

It's early...

>Paul Dubuc  cbscc!pmd

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