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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:45:10 -0700
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- From: "Gordon C. Zaft" <zaft@CARITAS.COTDAZR.ORG>
- Subject: Re: Responsibility
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- On Dec 22, 9:58am, Dan Harling wrote:
- } Subject: Re: Responsibility and final action
- }
- } Our approach to abortion clinics should be the same: work to eliminate
- } the demand for their services. Organizations such as Birthright try to
- } arrange room and board for expectant mothers, so they can keep their
- } children and get back to supporting themselves as quickly as possible.
- } By providing a working alternative, keeping the child rather than
- } having an abortion becomes a viable alternative that many women take,
- } thus reducing the demand for abortions. This system works as well as
- } it does because there is a personal relationship between the people who
- } work in the program and the beneficiaries.
- }
- }-- End of excerpt from Dan Harling
-
- While I would agree that we must work to eliminate the demand for
- abortion, and that organizations such as Birthright are worthwhile
- and worthy of our support, I nevertheless feel that this is not
- enough.
-
- To draw an analogy that I'm sure some will find distasteful --
- say there is a concentration camp outside town where homeless
- people are being held and killed. Would you claim that all we should
- do is work to eliminate the causes of homelessness? I think this is
- similar. While we must work to eliminate the root causes, we cannot
- ignore the slaughter that is taking place.
-
- GZ
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