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- From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
- Subject: Re: DID BUSH KILL HIS CHANCES BY NOT ATTACKING FOCA?
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:30:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.133040.10134@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Nov23.044209.688@wuecl.wustl.edu>, dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter) writes:
- > <phil.722110508@seidel> (Philip Papadopoulos) writes:
- > >> Get as many abortions as you want.. Just don't ask me... to pay for it"
- >
- > <1992Nov18.212720.21716@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
- > > Do your tax dollars go to pay for abortions?
- > > ...Could you clarify why you believe your tax dollars pay for abortions?
- > ...I'm not sure that Philip Papadopoulos was complaining about a current
- > policy. He may have been pleading that no new policy of public
- > support for abortion be enacted. His concern is a valid one, IMHO.
- > Our new president has promised a national health care plan of
- > some sort in the next year...
-
- It is an interesting argument. I first of all would like to say
- that I do not necessarily believe that taxpayer money should be used
- to pay for abortion. But I do wonder what happens if we stop
- paying for medical procedures that arise out of lifestyle
- choices. Should people who are fat and eat too much salt
- receive no medical coverage if they have a heart problem. Do
- we not pay for treatments for lung cancer for smokers or
- ex-smokers? Suppose you choose to live in the vicinity of
- Three-Mile Island and come down with a cancer traceable,
- arguably, to radioactive emissions? are you covered? Or
- suppose we find that a lot of people are growing tumors as
- a result of sitting in front of CRTs? Those are, to
- a certain extent, lifetsyle choices. Maybe they would have been
- safe if they had only been in front of the monitor during working
- hours, but also chose to go home and access the net.
-
- It seems to me that any basis for a national health care program
- is one of compassion. While I definitely oppose abuse of a
- national health care system, because it becomes untenable
- if abused, I do not oppose a system that has a big enough
- umbrella to protect people shose lifestyles I do not personally
- live and would not choose to live.
-
- Dean Kaflowitz
-