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In a message dated 8/1/2005 1:45:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"I am amazed and the quanity of people who will Actually, I don't think I've ever heard anyone (although Brian Rogers
comment has me a bit worried . . . and there are troubling, and apparently
factual reports of infanticide in some places) who believes the literal meaning
of these statements you wrote.
Although I don't believe in the gratuitous killing of anything, the issue
of protecting snails, etc., is to protect the diversity and health of our
ecosystems (and for some, out of respect for the wonder of life). If
we want our children to have a world that's liveable, we better be concerned
about the natural world in which they will exist.
As far as "killing babies," I suspect most of us recognize the code words
for abortion. It should be stating the obvious that deciding at what
point, from merger of sperm with ovum onward, that a child's life begins
and terminating that life is unresolvable. Certainly people should
weigh heavily the biological and ethical issues before making their own personal
decisions on this, but (as at least one other post has suggested), trying to
impose one's own conclusions on another just isn't going to work politically or
practically, even in a tightly controlled society.
Bob
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