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- From: parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- References: <1992Dec24.234313.26934@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Dec28.075957.19167@wetware.com> <1992Dec28.154215.13989@rchland.ibm.com> <1992Dec29.000622.24041@ncsu.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:03:55 GMT
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- dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec28.154215.13989@rchland.ibm.com>
- >jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
-
- >> This is the same attitude I have seen from pro-lifers
- >> all along. They'll get arrested to save a life, but
- >> once the baby is born they could care less. Try to get
- >> some of these folks to support social programs like
- >> WIC or foodstamps.
-
- >Actually, most pro-lifers that I know support social
- >programs like WIC and foodstamps. And the poor tend
- >to be the strongest opponents of abortion.
-
- Something just doesn't sit right when people in poverty are having more
- children than people who are well off. And people wonder how a country can
- end up with 1% of the population owning 99% of the wealth. It's sad.
-
- >But I don't follow your reasoning. If someone supports
- >the criminalization of an immoral act, then why must they
- >support those who wish to commit that act? Does my support
- >of rape laws imply that I must satisfy the desires of
- >potential rapists? If not, then what's the difference
- >between that and abortion?
-
- Hold on. In the case of rape, the attacker is adding a burden to society
- through hospital care and police investigation of a violent crime. In the
- case of abortion, a burden is *removed* from society. (or an individual,
- depending on whether you think society or the parents should be responsible)
- It is not the one doing or having the abortion, it is the child that results
- from *not* having the choice of abortion that we expect you to support. Your
- rape analogy does not hold.
-
- >>Jared Dahl
-
- >Doug Holtsinger
-
- -Rob
-