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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Friday, 20 Nov 1992 17:38:08 CST
- From: <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92325.173808U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: con't:The Silent Holocaust
- References: <Nov.20.16.43.25.1992.29037@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
- Lines: 64
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- In article <Nov.20.16.43.25.1992.29037@andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
- hauk@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Keira E. Hauk) says:
-
- >The majority of abortions are a result of convienence!
-
- I somehow doubt that making a decision to have-or not have,for that matter-an
- abortion is a bit more than a matter of "convenience",but I'm not suprised
- that you would start off a post with a blatant assertion like this.
-
- > Rape and incest are
- >horribly wrong.
-
- Yes,they are. On this,we're totally in agreement. But....
-
- > But it is still a human life growing inside the womb.
-
- ....which was put there by an act which was neither voluntary or indicative of
- any emotional quality except hate and/or psychological illness. Corresponding-
- ly,am I supposed to let some psycho wielding a machete cut my head off because
- he's "a human life gone only slightly amok"? I may not have the legal right to
- kill him save for self-defense,but if it comes to that,I'm all for preserving
- _my_ life over his.
-
- > Like
- >I said before, there are no perfect solutions and this is not a perfect
- >society.
-
- Exactly. So why-as an apparent RTLer-do you then turn around and try to
- hold people to your own perfectionist standards when you yourself admit that
- "this is not a perfect society"?
-
- > If it were, there would be no rapists and there would be no child
- >molesters. And I would not have to be voicing these opinions.
-
- The two things are quite unconnected,thank you very much.
-
- > I call it a silent holocaust because that is what is it.
-
- Correction: you call it that because that's what you _perceive_ it to be,
- nothing more,nothing less. Your own personal ideological map is not the
- territory,unfortunately,and I can't buy into the illusion that it is.
-
- > A holocaust
- >is a mass killing of a group of people.
-
- Which reminds me....are you going to haul out the hoary RTL cliche that pro-
- choicers are the moral equivalent of Nazis? I'm sure that the Jewish community
- would love to debate the tactic...
-
- > And the people who are being murdered
- >cannot voice their pain.
-
- So it's okay to take away the rights of rape and incest victims (as well as
- those whose lives are threatened by childbirth,to those who wish to abort due
- to the potential for giving birth to an child which could be unviable _after_
- birth,etc.) merely because of your perfectionist standards of behavior,eh?
-
- You really are attempting to paint this imperfect world with a broad brush,
- aren't you?
-
- ** Chris Krolczyk,esq. * DISCLAIMER: My opinions are in **
- ** Maniac-at-Large * no way endorsed by the Univer- **
- ** U19807@UICVM.BITNET * sity of Illinois at Chicago. **
- ** u19807@uicvm.uic.edu * So there. Nyaah. **
-