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To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
For the actual murderer (the abortionist), the penalty must be Death. (Genesis 9:6)

For the complicit accessory (the aborting woman), penalty might vary dependent upon mitigating factors.

If I hire someone to commit murder, the law views me as being the principle in the act, not my hired gun. As it should. You are wrong. She did it. And according to your book, she deserves death.

Why do you shrink from that conclusion? Like Aaron, you refuse even to state what the penalty should be. Mitigating factors, my sweet petunia. It's pre-mediated.

127 posted on 02/13/2002 1:36:57 AM PST by Architect
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To: Architect, A.J.Armitage
If I hire someone to commit murder, the law views me as being the principle in the act, not my hired gun. As it should. You are wrong. She did it. And according to your book, she deserves death. Why do you shrink from that conclusion? Like Aaron, you refuse even to state what the penalty should be. Mitigating factors, my sweet petunia. It's pre-mediated. 127 posted on 2/13/02 2:36 AM Pacific by Architect

Respectfully -- and with due credit to Susan B. Anthony for her recognition of this fact -- there have been far too many under-age girls throughout history who have been essentially *forced* into abortion by parents, or wives/girlfriends coerced into abortion by abusive mates, to wave our hands and pretend that there are no such things as "mitigating factors".

Now, in the case of some brazen "Cosmo Girl" who is simply seeking to dispose of the child, conceived by her own irresponsibility, who "endangers" her career -- or worse, who has gotten herself preggos for "breast-enlargement-on-the-cheap" -- I do regard such a one as the commissioner of a hired assassin, and believe that, if the case is properly established by Biblical evidentiary standards, she should be treated as such.

But that isn't always the reality of the situation. In fact, it often isn't. The abortionist is always a murderer; but the woman is sometimes a co-conspirator, sometimes an accessory, and sometimes exculpated entirely -- dependent on the particulars of the situation. Because sometimes, there are mitigating factors in the woman's case.

It would be unrealistic to write law as if there aren't.

144 posted on 02/13/2002 5:58:56 AM PST by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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