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- From: dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter)
- Subject: Re: DID BUSH KILL HIS CHANCES BY NOT ATTACKING FOCA?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.041500.384@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:15:00 GMT
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- <phil.722110508@seidel> (Philip Papadopoulos) writes:
- >> ..Get as many abortions as you want.. Just don't ask me...to pay for it"
-
- <1992Nov18.210134.1098@starbase.trincoll.edu> jay.wise@mail.trincoll.edu writes:
- > First of all, the "taxpayers complaint" doesn't carry much weight.
-
- Hmmm. You left out your apostrophe, so I don't know whether I agree or not.
- A taxpayer's complaint doesn't carry much weight, it is true. But
- the taxpayers' complaint had best be heeded, if their representatives
- wish to remain in office.
-
- The point is essentially that there are far more supporters of abortion
- liberty than there are supporters of abortion. It is one thing for
- a government to guarantee freedom of choice and action regarding
- abortion. It is quite another for the government to determine that
- abortion availability is sufficiently important to the public interest
- that public money should be spent to guarantee it. The first policy
- is a judgment that it is bad for government to stop desired abortions.
- The second, a judgment that it is good for government to assist
- desired abortions.
-
- While "washing our hands of the matter" may not be a particularly
- courageous stand, it is a widely held one. Widely enough, IMHO,
- that opposition to public abortion funding (particularly at the
- federal level) is more of a taxpayers' complaint than a taxpayer's
- complaint.
-
- --
- | Don Porter | dgp@saturn.wustl.edu | Washington University in St Louis |
- | "The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they |
- | please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we |
- |___risk congratulations." -- Edmund Burke._________________________________|
-