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To: newgeezer
he said:let's see if we can declare Jews, Slavs, Christians, Muslims, Aborigines or women as something less than human when it suits our needs.

Why not just say, "that sounds like something Hitler would say?". It shows you are debating with someone that has no interest in debating.

142 posted on 06/06/2003 11:30:21 AM PDT by biblewonk (Spose to be a Chrissssstian)
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To: biblewonk
Why not just say, "that sounds like something Hitler would say?". It shows you are debating with someone that has no interest in debating.

That's the entire point - that the language used to dehumanize a fetus has a similarity to the langauge used to dehumanize an ethnic group - and both have been a precursor to mass murder, with 30 million dead in the United States from abortion and millions dead from genocide around the world. Nat Hentoff, a principled liberal, is wise enough to recogize that slipperly slope and not condone the first step out onto said slope.

If you wish to make a religious argument against abortion, fine. I wish to make a secular argument that takes away the refuge of those who try to downplay opposition to abortion as the realm of religious fanatics - by using their own concepts of human rights against their justifications for abortion.

147 posted on 06/06/2003 11:35:29 AM PDT by dirtboy (someone kidnapped dirtboy and replaced him with an exact replica)
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