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- From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line ""arbitrary""
- References: <1992Dec24.014033.13747@ncsu.edu> <34624@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <C0301K.5nL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <30DEC92.17224243@vax.clarku.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:06:55 GMT
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- hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
-
- >In a previous article, vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () wrote:
- >>smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- >>
- >>>Also generally, I believe that state actions that restrict individual
- >>>liberty should be held to strict standards of justification. I
- >>>believe this is doubly true for actions that would impose costs
- >>>disproportionately on traditionally disenfranchised groups. With
- >>>specific respect to abortion, I would add that the right of women to
- >>>protection from the public health risk of illegal abortions and forced
- >>
- >>The over 90% of illegal abortions performed before Roe v Wade were done
- >>by licensed physicians in good medical standing in their own offices.
- >>The number of deaths before and after Roe v Wade showed no statistical
- >>decrease in deaths resulting from abortion.
-
- >Where exactly do you get these statistics from? I would appreciate some
- >references, since your data conflicts with what I have read.
-
-
- Two fascinating books you should pick up... Abortion- Questions and
- Answers by Dr. & Mrs. Willke (pro-life supporters) and Abortion- The Clash
- of Absolutes by L. H. Tribe (pro-abortion supporter). Look very carefully
- at the sources quoted in both books. Note who quotes newspaper articles
- and other not-so-respectable-sources and who quotes real medical and
- government studies.
-
- The specific source to the stat you asked about are the National Center
- for Health Statistics and a report in the American Journal of Health, Vol 50
- July 1960, page 949 (from Willke).
-
- In addition, the "coat hanger" days will NEVER return anyways. If abortions
- went back to being illegal, the procedure is such that most idiots could do
- it early in the pregnancy with almost perfect safety.
-
- >>Stop perpetuating these lies.
- >>
- >>>pregnancy far outweighs any right to state protection for the
- >>>*potential citizens*. State resources are scarce, and I find it
- >>
- >>Ms. Smith consented to have sex. In so doing she has surrendered her rights
- >>to bodily integrity and personal autonomy.
-
- >Consent to sex does not equal consent to nine months of pregnancy.
-
- Sure it does. Nature decreed that long before you or I were ever born.
- And since when does avoiding 9 months of pregnancy warrant ending 80 years
- of someone's life?
-
- >>There is a BIG difference
- >>between allowing someone to die through INaction and ACTIVELY hacking someone
- >>to pieces. Abortion is a physical violation of the bodily integrity and
- >>personal autonomy of someone who had NO CHOICE but to be brought into existance.
- >>This isn't the same thing as providing handouts to a welfare family. If you
- >>cut their public aid, they still have the chance to provide for themselves.
- >>If they died, that would still have been at least partially their fault.
- >>Now, if I walked into that welfare family house with an axe and took 20 minutes
- >>to slowly cut each person to pieces, that would be murder.
-
- >Of course it would. Welfare families are citizens with legal rights. Fetuses
- >are not. Also, the welfare family you describe was living in a house, not
- >inside another human being causing physicial harm to him/her.
-
- Ahh.. so in fact what you are saying is that legal rights depend solely on
- place of residence? The mother FORCED that baby to be placed inside her
- body. The mother therefore has a responsibility to give that baby a chance
- to get out of her.
-
- >>You need to get a sense of proportion to your reality.
- >>
- >>>impossible to justify using them to force one citizen to donate bodily
- >>>resources to save another citizen. The fact that the affected
- >>
- >>Hmm... the draft has only involved citizens who were uniquely men. Is this
- >>equal protection under the law? I think not.
- >>
- >>In fact, our MALE citizens have been drafted to save people who WEREN'T
- >>even U.S. citizens... I think that is even more unequal. Don't forget
- >>that millions of MEN have died fighting for freedom so you can whine
- >>about whether or not you can be promiscuous and hack babies to pieces.
-
- >Married, non-promiscuous women have abortions too. And I don't for one second
- >believe that Mr. Mezias wants to "hack babies to pieces". If you know of
- >anyone who IS hacking babies to pieces, I hope you will report them to the
- >police, since hacking babies to pieces is illegal.
-
- Every abortionist in this country hacks babies to pieces. Go watch an
- abortion if you have the GUTS.
-
- You completely ignored my establishment of a precedent for "forcing" one
- citizen to use his body to save another. Answer that for me.
- The draft is still legal. It can be enacted at any time.
-
- >>>citizens would be uniquely women also raises concerns regarding equal
- >>>protection under the law. In addition, absent a precedent for such
- >>>restrictions on citizens for the sake of other *citizens*, I find it
- >>>hard to advocate policies to `save' *potential* citizens with the
- >>>bodily servitude of citizens.
- >>
- >>Once again, Ms. Smith went and had sex without using her brain.
-
- >Once again, consent to sex, with or without using brains, does not equal
- >consent to nine months of pregnancy. You keep refering to a woman who
- >consented to sex. What kind of punishment would you hand out to men who
- >consent to sex? Do you think only women should suffer bodily harm for the
- >horrible "crime" of consenting to sex?
-
- Pregnancy is not a punishment. Pregnancy is a responsibility one must
- accept for one's actions. Men who consent to sex should be legally
- responsible to support the child emotionally and financially.
-
- >>Murder is murder.
-
- >Sure is. However, abortion is not murder.
-
- *shrug* Not to those who can't grow up and be responsible adults.
-
- >>There is no such thing as a potential citizen except in the legal
- >>sense. Morally and scientifically life begins at fertilization, and so does
- >>citizenhood. ^^^^^^^^^^^
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Try claiming a tax-deduction for a fetus, and you'll learn that citizenhood
- >does NOT begin at fertilization.
-
- Duh! Another witless comment. In the previous sentence I said that preborn
- babies weren't LEGALLY citizens. That does nothing to change the moral
- and scientific evidence that they should be.
-
- >>>SJM
- >>Edward Simmonds
-
- > .... Heather.
-
- This society is going down the hill MORALLY. All of these problems stem
- from the same thing: lack of moral absolutes. Abortion is a great way to
- escape maturity, regardless of your actual age.
-
-
-
- Edward Simmonds- standard disclaimers
-
-