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- From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
- Summary: Hi, Stevie!! We miss you!
- Keywords: abortion, slavery
- Message-ID: <84178@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 02:09:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.171306.1666@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Followup-To: talk.abortion
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul Smith) writes:
-
- >I am simply advocating that men and women should not have sex if they
- >don't want a baby at that time, but if they do have sex then they should be
- >prepared to, at the least, give that child up for adoption. That *WAS
- >THE ORIGINAL QUESTION* - "adoption is a viable alternative to raising the
- >child, so what is a viable alternative to pregnancy". That viable
- >alternative is abstinence.
-
- But abstinence is not viable for all people. I point out that, in some
- states, refusing conjugal relations with your spouse is grounds for
- divorce. (I don't have that post handy -- anyone know WHICH states?)
-
- Claiming abstinence is the *sole* viable alternative is disingenuous, at
- best.
-
- >And that is all I'm saying. I was not saying that abstinence is an
- >alternative to abortion. I'm simply saying that abstinence is a
- >resonable behavior to expect from two people to *prevent* a so-called
- >"unwanted pregnancy".
-
- So is contraception. When contraception fails, and a pregnancy results,
- then other remedies may/must be sought, depending on the people.
-
- I think that if you try to claim contraception is NOT a reasonable way to
- prevent unwanted pregnancies, you'll find most people here to be rather
- unsympathetic. Personally, I find that to be a laughable view.
-
- >You seem like you might know what you will do to protect rights and
- >freedoms, which I applaud, but what will *you* do to protect a child?
-
- Quite a bit. But fetuses aren't children.
-
- What will *you* do to protect the rights of women?
-
- --
- --Andrew Hackard If I spoke for UT, this post
- andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu would make even less sense.
-