At 09:04 AM 6/22/01 +1200 K.Feete wrote:
>Eh, first, I wonder about this number. Only thirty-nine? Oh, of course,
>that's only the numbers who *officially* died from illegal abortion.
>Personally I'd wonder if the numbers weren't a lot higher....
Actually, I have a hard time believing that the cause of death was faked.
Since we don't convict dead people of crimes in this country, there would
be no reason to hide it.
>However, that's not the point. I hate abortion. I hate the very idea of
>abortion and, if by some god-awful mischance I should get pregnant, I
>should certainly keep the child. That's my opinion. There is no
>significant scientific proof to back up this opinion, nor is there any
>likelihood of their being significant scientific proof to back it up, and
>therefore it *remains* opinion. I can shout it from the rooftops if I
>like, but I have no right to give it the force of law. Period.
>
>Not in a free country, John.
Oh really?
Do you care to provide me with the significant scientific proof* that two
month old children are human, and children N-1 days before birth are not
human?
Or, is it that you simply believe that since our government permits killing
a child N-1 days before birth, but not a child two months after birth, that
our government does not constitute the government of a free country?
So, given that you feel that governments do not have the right to impose a
definition of humanity on anyone who disagrees with definition, what *do*
you feel is the appropriate purpose of government?
JDG
* - I may not have significant scientific proof, but I do have the opinions
of several significant scientists on this issue. See:
http://www.justthefacts.org
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