From: Jeff Shultz - Shultz Infosystems 

On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 13:25:21 -0700, in
, Steven Durrett 
wrote:

>Jeff -
>
>>
>
>FWIW, to the best of my knowledge, no state has ever treated first
>trimester abortion as murder.

I don't give a flying fig what the law considers it. I know what I consider it.

>
>In stating that abortion should be punished as murder, you are not
>attempting to overturn Roe v. Wade, you are attempting to overturn law
>that has existed since at least the 1600s in both the United States and
>England. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, but you should be
>aware of what you are doing.

Fine.
>
>On another front, even today, most individuals (I don't know where you
>stand) and organizations that oppose abortion believe that abortion
>should be permitted in cases of rape or incest - which conclusively
>proves, as far as I'm concerned, that they do not really believe first
>trimester fetuses are, in fact, human beings.

Or that they are bending to the political winds of compromise, in hopes of
a similar compromise from the other side - which, I note, is not likely to
happen. I suspect if something like that happened, there would be an
incredible increase in anonymous rapes in America.

Oh, and just to make my point clear - I am most definitely _NOT_ in favor
of shooting abortion clinic doctors.
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Jeff Shultz
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