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- From: hsims@vax.clarku.edu
- Subject: RE: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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- Date: 30 DEC 92 18:07:24 GMT
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- In a previous article, vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu wrote:
- >hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>In a previous article, vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu wrote:
- >>>hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >
- >>>>Fetuses do pose a threat to members of society - the women that they are
- >>>>living inside of. Every pregnant woman faces a risk of death that is greater
- >>>>than 0.00.
- >
- >>>So do people driving cars. The issue is whether someone has demonstrated
- >>>through an ACTION they have willingly undertaken that they are a LARGE
- >>>threat. This is a very weak argument you present here.
- >
- >>If you feel that the risk involved with driving is too great, you have a right
- >>to stop driving. If a woman feels that her pregnancy is posing to great a
- >>risk to her life, she has a right to have an abortion and stop being pregnant.
- >
- >Do you think any of this stuff through before you post it? I do NOT have
- >the right to FORCE YOU to stop driving. YOU might run me over when I'm walking
- >down the street. YOU might slam your care into my kitchen when I'm eating
- >dinner. YOU might kill my mother. Hacking a baby into pieces amounts to the
- >same thing. The baby has not chosen A. to be conceived .. or B. to be
- >murdered. Your forcing that baby to DIE means you have enforced your will
- >upon it (much the same as my forcing you not to drive).
-
- True, you do not have a right to force me to stop driving. Did I say you did?
- I'm still not sure why you brought up the driving analogy. But anyways,
- you also do not have a right to force me to stay pregnant against my will.
- You do not have a right to force me to use my body to support a fetus. You
- are not forced by law to donate bone marrow or kidneys to save other people's
- lives. Why should pregnant women have less rights than you?
-
- >Why do you insist on punishing the innocent for the crimes of the uncaring
- ^^^^^^
- >or irresponsible? Wouldn't this be the same if I suddenly decided that
- >you are an undue burden to your mother, or to society, and brutally cut
- >you apart? I'll answer my own question.. yes.
-
- Getting pregnant is not a crime. Consenting to sex is not a crime. You
- seem to think both are crimes that women should receive a nine-month
- punishment for. As far as your second question, if my mother thinks I'm doing
- something that is causing an undue burden on her, I can stop doing it, or we
- can seek other alternatives. Can a fetus stop causing a burden on an
- unwilling women without being removed?
-
- >>>Only an idiot would hold children responsible for the stupidity and
- >>>cruelty of their parents. If programs that help these children could be
- >>>enacted that would truly be uncorruptable and beneficial to them, they would
- >>>be warranted.
- >
- >>Such as?
- >
- >Limited term welfare in which the participants must demonstrate a willingness
- >while they are sitting on their butts at home to get an education. Full
- >scholarships based on need are a dime a dozen. If you are sitting at home,
- >watching your color TV and collecting my tax money, I have a right to expect
- >you to take all your free time and make something of yourself. If you
- >refuse and instead insist on being a parasite, we cut off your money, take
- >your children from you, and let you fend for yourself.
-
- Where do we take these children to? Our foster care system is already
- overburdened. There aren't enough adoptive homes as it is for minority or
- disabled children.
-
- >>>Abortion is murder. It's not a question of just the mother's life, but also
- >>>the baby's. The laws of this country already state that murder is wrong so
- >>>in fact the state already has control over this issue. The only problem is
- >>>in making people aware of what abortion really is... cold blooded, vicious,
- >>>violent, painful MURDER.
- >
- >>You may think abortion is murder, but the laws of the U.S. do not. Abortion
- >>happens to be perfectly legal. But just out of curiousity, what kind of
- >>punishment do you think women who have abortions should recieve?
- >
- >Abortion is murder. The AMA believed this for over a hundred years before
- >they were taken over by you liberals. I suppose this isn't that hard to
- >understand because charging a woman for pregnancy used to be more profitiable,
- >but now murdering those babies pays alot more.
-
- This is simply not true. Abortions cost a few hundred dollars. A "normal",
- uncomplicated delivery costs several thousand dollars. Complications can
- raise the price to tens of thousands of dollars. Childbirth is much more
- profitable for physicians.
-
- >Don't ever kid yourself,
- >we live in a capitalist society, and money creates morality. How do the
- >liberals try and get special rights for gays in Colorado? They boycott
- >the whole state (even those who voted for the legislation) to hurt them
- >FINANCIALLY. Money rules most professions. You women who are supporting
- >your right to kill babies (your right to CHOOSE), are in fact supporting
- >a profession whose only goal is to get rich by exploiting you.
-
- "You women..."? I'm not in favor of killing babies.
-
- >I don't think women who have abortions should receive any punishment at all
- >other than counseling. Women who have abortions are not malicious killers,
- >they are simply women in a difficult situation seeking the easy way out.
-
- But if abortion is murder, and women pay an abortionist to commit this act
- of murder, aren't they basically hitmen? Why would you treat them any
- differently from, say, a person who pays a hitman to kill someone s/he
- doesn't like?
-
- >They need to be convinced that what they have done, or are trying to do, is
- >in fact the murder of an innocent life. Only a callous jerk would propose
- >we imprison them for being scared and frightened.
-
- This is a very condescending attitude. Do you think ALL women who choose
- abortions are just scared little girls who are too stupid know any better?
- Plenty of mature, intelligent women have had abortions for one reason or
- another. Several of them have posted their stories here.
-
- >The doctors who perform abortions are murderers. Abortionists should be hung.
- >Talk about being a mass murderer, John Wayne Gacy can't even come close to
- >these sick bastards.
-
- Anti-abortion laws will result in dead women. Why do you feel women's lives
- are less valuable than fetuses?
-
- >Edward Simmonds- opinions are my own and are perfectly correct
-
-
- .... Heather.
-