> First of all, there most certainly would not be a serious social crisis.
> Here is a great web page on the subject:
> http://www.catholic.net/rcc/loveboth/chapter27.html (read this page at
> least as far as the graph)
>
> One of the most salient figures in this excellent analysis is that in the
> year before abortion was legalized in the United States, all of 39 women
> died from illegal abortions. Now admittedly, that is 39 too many, but it
> hardly rises to the level of social crisis. There are a lot of other
> problems that produce 39 deaths a year, which don't raise this amount of
> concern.
What about the mental trauma? What about the injuries? *DEATH* is not a sole
measure of social crisis.
> Indeed, using your above logic, I could argue that we could prevent
> societal crises by euthanizing the homeless also.
Moron. That does not follow. Killing adults is clearly wrong, as I
explained.
> Yet, I am sure you
> would not support that.
Really? You figured that out all by yourself?
> Likewise, we could easily save far more than 39
> lives by banning all cars that are capable of speeds greater than 35 mph.
No you couldn't. But that is a different argument, which I'm not going to
get involved in.
> Obviously these are reductio ad absurdum arguments, and I don't seriously
> expect you to respond to them.
>
> The more serious point, however, is this: Do you really think that it is
> justifiable to wrongly kill 1.4 million potential sentients each year for
> the sake of 39 people?
<sigh> It's not about 39 deaths. And if you can't understand that, I'm not
talking about it anymore.
Welcome to my killfile.
Charlie
