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To: George Coyne who wrote (51026)	6/1/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Sorry George, wasn't responding directly to your point. Just making a tangential observation.

To: George Coyne who wrote (51026)	6/1/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

We are continually balancing things in our estimate of the severity of crimes, and the appropriate penalties. Thus, we distinguish between murder and manslaughter, with various gradations besides. By the logic you have employed in your post, the fact that we recognize justifiable homicide, or treat negligent homicide less harshly than murder, means that we are insincere in our desire to do justice, and instead merely want to control--- whom? to what purpose? Few people have the heart to ban abortion in cases of rape and incest. Does the fact that they find these sufficient excuses mean that they are merely "conrolling" in the other instances? At worst, it means that they are "going soft", and should ban all abortions. At best, it is a complex calculation of when the lack of responsibility of the mother, and the horror of the circumstances, weigh in favor of mercy... You are missing the point. It is a question of not treating severely those who are implicated in the abortion...No, it does not mean that they "don't really believe", it means that there is enough of a shadow of a doubt about the humanity of the fetus to make narrow exceptions. No one is pretending that the fetus is a criminal...In any event, if you read my arguments against abortion, the humanity of the fetus did not enter into them...