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- Newsgroups: ncsu.general,talk.abortion
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- From: jlharris@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHNATHAN LEWIS HARRIS)
- Subject: Re: The FUTURE is HERE!!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.172616.20618@ncsu.edu>
- Originator: jlharris@c00016-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu
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- Reply-To: jlharris@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHNATHAN LEWIS HARRIS)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- References: <1992Nov10.231238.26386@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov11.010423.29483@ncsu.edu> <72148536517577@c00508-119rd.eos.ncsu.edu> <72149420218033@c00508-119rd.eos.ncsu.edu> <1992Nov11.212954.7881@ncsu.edu> <adams.721595322@spssig> <1992Nov13.163212.27900@ncsu.edu> <adams.721675706@spssig> <1992Nov17.202633.24525@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov18.221201.17685@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:26:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.221201.17685@ncsu.edu>, blchapma@eos.ncsu.edu (BEKKI LYN) writes:
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- |> |> |> I don't see how this is going to hurt you personally...don't you think that
- |> |> |> gays deserve equal protection under the law? And how is keeping abortion
- |> |> |> legal 'pandering' to the abortion-rights activists. Most Americans believe
- |> |> |> that at least some abortions should be legal. And the Supreme Court has
- |> |> |> said they should be legal, even though there were lots of judges appointed
- |> |> |> by Reagan and Bush.
- |> |>
- |> |> Equal yes, but not special priveledges for being different, including marriage.
- |> |> It is pandering, just as outlawing it would be called pandering to the churches.
- |> |> Abortion I *gasp* support in the case of rape or incest, or when the mothers
- |> |> life is in danger, but there must be some (dunno how) way to prove that a
- |> |> rape has happened, that remember is (yes I already said this) what the woman
- |> |> now know as Jane Roe said happened to her, and later admitted was a lie.
- |>
- |> Women who lie about rape make up about 1% or less of those reporting.
- |> Yes, lying about something like rape is sickening; however, the 99% of
- |> real rape survivors must have their rights protected.
- |>
- |> I would imagine that if abortion is deemed illegal except through rape
- |> or incest, the cases of women lying about rape will go drastically up,
- |> which would make it even more difficult for society to believe the real
- |> rape survivors.
- |>
- |> Since most rapists seem to go unpunished, making abortion illegal except
- |> for rape or incest, would pretty much keep abortions from most of the
- |> rape survivors.
- |>
- |> Remember too, that a woman is *always* risking her life during a pregnancy.
- |> Her life is always in danger. A woman can go through a whole pregnancy
- |> without complications, yet die during delivery. Forcing a human being to
- |> go through such a risk is repulsive to me, and I will do everything in my
- |> power to keep women from being forced into such a gamble with death.
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- Yes but there is a "risk" although a small one, in any surgery including abortion
- therefore you repulse yourself on your beliefs. The issue of false rapes
- is what makes me wonder of the logic of giving exceptions in a total rape outlaw.
-
- -Johnathan
-