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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (124407)	1/30/2001 12:07:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

No one is forced by any logic at all to treat women under extreme duress as if they were common murderers. Abortionists are the common murderers. They profit of innocent children’s blood. A woman who chooses an abortion and a doctor who performs it are doing the exact same act. If I hire you to kill someone, the law will not acquit me just because I didn't pull the trigger. You are trying to soft-pedal the results of your logic because you are not comfortable with the cruelty to women that it entails. And the abortion providers make an easier target than the women who seek their services. If I say that a nine-month fetus has rights -- and I do -- it does not mean that I must automatically extend the same rights to a fertilized ovum. The law gives more rights to 18 year olds than 15 year olds, more rights to 10 year olds than new born infants, and more rights to 9 month fetuses than fertilized eggs. I can live with that. As for Judaism allowing abortions to save the mother's sanity, I learned it long ago but I don't have the reference. It's based on the ruling, which comes from the Talmud, that the fetus is a potential person, and has rights, but these rights weigh less than the rights of full people. Thus it's right to abort to save the life of the mother; normally you couldn't kill someone else to save a woman's life. The ruling about saving a woman's sanity is an extension of the basic ruling and has been traditionally used to allow a woman to abort a severely handicapped or non-viable fetus rather than making her bear it to term. As for your definition of science! May I suggest going to an encyclopedia and looking up "scientific method"?