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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 />
>