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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.