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APPENDIX A. TALK.ABORTION: AUGUST 9, 1994 159<br />

What does <strong>the</strong> fatal community say about abortion? Nothing, as <strong>the</strong>re is<br />

no such community. Yet <strong>the</strong>re is a Jewish community. Well maybe <strong>the</strong>re are<br />

differences between Jews and fetuses.<br />

Jews are and were persons with rights. This is not because I say so,<br />

nei<strong>the</strong>r is it because you say so. The personhood of Jews is not in any<br />

way dependent on our views. They are persons because <strong>the</strong>y <strong>the</strong>mselves say<br />

so. That means each individual Jew says that he is a person with rights<br />

and he is. O<strong>the</strong>rs have no choice but to respect <strong>the</strong> rights.<br />

Fetuses on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r had are like animals, <strong>the</strong>y are not self-conscious<br />

and do not know <strong>the</strong>y are persons with rights. The fact that <strong>the</strong>y have<br />

human DNA does not magically make <strong>the</strong>m persons. Membership in a species<br />

cannot per se be a deciding fact in person hood any more than membership<br />

in a race.<br />

><br />

>Are we supposed to be proud of our pro-choice stance on <strong>the</strong> holocaust?<br />

If <strong>the</strong>re had been anything pro-choice in Holocaust, <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> Jews should<br />

have had <strong>the</strong> choice.<br />

>I personally am opposed to killing Jews, but I respect your right to<br />

>destroy <strong>the</strong>m as long as <strong>the</strong>y are in your country.<br />

This sentence is among <strong>the</strong> worst kind of anti-Semitism I have heard. I<br />

do not mean <strong>the</strong> content of it as I know it was written as a parody. I<br />

mean <strong>the</strong> thing that you so willingly ignore <strong>the</strong> fact that Jews are<br />

persons with <strong>the</strong>ir own rights, wishes and feelings.<br />

I simply cannot not understand how someone can reduce our personhood to<br />

something as trivial as a DNA-molecule.<br />

><br />

>Joe Moore<br />

Osmo<br />

Article 48<br />

Reference 161856<br />

From ronkanen@cc.Helsinki.FI<br />

Date Thu, Aug 4, 1994 6:52 PM<br />

Follow-ups to talk.abortion<br />

In article ,<br />

HUCK ROBERT O wrote:<br />

>peal nora c (n-peal@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:<br />

>: rohuck@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (HUCK ROBERT O) writes:<br />

><br />

>: >james g. keegan jr. (keegan@helios.acm.rpi.edu) wrote:<br />

><br />

>: I can see how those acts would help women. How would banning<br />

>: abortion help women?<br />

>

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