From: davidc@montagar.lonestar.org (David L. Cathey)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: questions that Pritchett doesn't like...
Date: 12 Aug 92 09:11:31 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Montagar Software Concepts, Plano TX

In article <un3ur*-N0@caleb.UUCP>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
> In article <1992Aug5.192306.20742@technology.com>, Richard Murphy writes:
> 
>> Simply dismissing my questions as stupid or whatever ducks the
>> whole issue. The point I am trying to make here is that if the
>> point of preventing abortion is to save a life and the law
>> codifies this, then it would also seem to apply to other
>> circumstances.

	The question seems clear to me...

> My point has been made several times, but you Pro-Abortionists deliberately
> ignore it.  You keep trying to change the subject in order to find something
> to ridicule.  That way you can avoid the unpleasant fact that abortions kill
> babies.
> 
> Convenience abortion IS murder.

	Okay, lets assume that is 100% true: abortion is 1st degree murder.
Not just reckless endangerment, negligent homicide, but premeditated murder.

>> As for miscarriages, how would you be sure that the woman didn't
>> take RU-488 and abort? Just what sort of criminal penalties
>> do you suggest, Jim? This is premeditated most of the time,
>> so it would seem that death by lethal injection could be
>> handed down in some cases.

	And so we have it:  What criminal penalties are there for abortion,
i.e. 1st Degree Murder, premeditated homicide?  The question has been put
forth, and the answer is:

> This is another red herring, but I'll try to explain it to you again.  Do you
> think that since it is unlikely that the government can catch all murderers,
> that murder should be legal?  No, of course, you don't.  Well, then why are
> you trying to say that abortion should be legal because we would have
> difficulty catching all the abortioners?

	Duck, parry, but no thrust...  The question goes unanswered.  Jim, you
*ARE* ducking this question.  You are on a jury, the defendent has had an
abortion, the charge is 1st degree murder, the procecution is pushing for the
death sentence.  Okay, sure, 1,000 others have gotten away with it, so we
ought to make an example of this one, right?  Abortion is Murder, Murder is
illegal, she *killed* her unborn baby.  The evidence is in, do you find
her guilty?  What do you think the sentence should be?  What would you do?

	Is this "ridicule", or just making sure we understand the full
ramifications of legislation that some want to enact?  If the courts decide
that abortion is murder, abortion is punishable by life imprisonment or even
the death sentence.  Or is this murder (premeditated and abominable as any
other), not punished by such rigid penalties, and she walks?

	Or simpler:  your wife has an abortion.  Do you testify for the
prosecution, and send her to jail for murder?

>                                                 Jim Pritchett
> UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
>  or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
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