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APPENDIX A. TALK.ABORTION: AUGUST 9, 1994 122<br />

Table A.3: Pro-life gunman kills two in FL: First 50 Articles from Sample Thread<br />

on talk.abortion newsgroup, August 9, 1994<br />

Article 1<br />

Reference 161341<br />

From ray@netcom.com<br />

Date Tue, Aug 2, 1994 1:08 AM<br />

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

>John Walkup wrote:<br />

>: Criminy. For <strong>the</strong> last time: Pro-life supporters are NOT attempting<br />

>: to legislate against anyone’s RIGHTS.<br />

><br />

>prove that persons do not ahve <strong>the</strong> right to <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

>bodies and <strong>the</strong> contents of <strong>the</strong>ir bodies.<br />

Easy. If you steal a 4 carat sapphire and swallow it, you gain _no_<br />

rights over it merely because it is now a content of your body. The<br />

rightful owner retains all rights to it.<br />

--<br />

Ray Fischer<br />

ray@netcom.com<br />

"The ultimate test of where a person stands is not where he<br />

or she stands in moments of convenience, but where he or she<br />

stands in moments of controversy." -- Martin Lu<strong>the</strong>r King<br />

Article 2<br />

Reference 161273<br />

From shows@a<strong>the</strong>na.mit.edu<br />

Date Tue, Aug 2, 1994 1:06 AM<br />

In article , collins@nova.umd.edu (Jim C) writes:<br />

|> In prc@physics.physics.wm.edu<br />

|> (Patrick Crotty) writes:<br />

|><br />

|> >The recent murders were <strong>the</strong> work of a militant fringe, who do not at<br />

|> >all represent <strong>the</strong> majority of abortion opponents.<br />

|><br />

|> I fully disagree. Catholicism has a 1000 year history of killing and torturing<br />

|> those who do not agree with it and submit to its claim of absolute truth, and<br />

|> people like Randall Terry have repeatedly asserted that <strong>the</strong>y are in full<br />

|> agreement with this policy and would like to see a return to <strong>the</strong> Middle Ages.<br />

|> RT has stated that he believes <strong>the</strong> Enlightenment was a low point in history.<br />

|> I have yet to see a low point that <strong>the</strong> anti-abortion fringe will not sink to,<br />

|> including setting up fake abortion clinics where women are accused of killing<br />

|> <strong>the</strong>ir "babies" , told that <strong>the</strong>y are murderers, shown films of abortions, and<br />

|> held against <strong>the</strong>ir will. They are fanatics that have ignored <strong>the</strong> rule of law<br />

|> and a democratic society, believing that <strong>the</strong>y have an absolute claim on <strong>the</strong><br />

|> truth.

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