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- From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Let me state my view
- References: <1993Jan8.015455.17584@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1993Jan8.025210.9017@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan11.201750.18369@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan11.221648.25779@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan14.230750.9249@ncsu.edu> <15JAN93.20360422@vax.clarku.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:45:19 GMT
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- hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
-
- >In a previous article, jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE) wrote:
- >>In article <1993Jan11.221648.25779@Princeton.EDU>, datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
- >>|>In article <1993Jan11.201750.18369@ncsu.edu>, jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu
- >>|>(JEFFREY JAMES PRICE) writes:
-
- >>|>>I am against the death penalty like a said but where did that go? More
- >>|>>convienent editing? 20 years in prison would do the job.
- >>|>
- >>|>At least you're consistent about your oppostion to death (although
- >>|>I still have to give you the fruitarian test :-) ). But don't you
- >>|>think prisons are crowded enough already? How will we fit millions
- >>|>of doctors and women into those things? There's got to be a better
- >>|>way.
- >>|>
- >>Build more jails. Not only will new construction stir the economy there
- >>ought to be many new job openeings from the jobs that become available
- >>when the women who go to jail have to give up there's.
-
- >I doubt that outlawing abortions will help the economy. You'd have to do
- >more than just build jails and remove a few women from their jobs. The
- >taxpayers would have to pay to maintain these people in prison (food, heat,
- >etc). We'd have to pay to provide care for the born children while their
- >parents are in jail. We'd have to pay the police and court costs to
- >investigate and prosecute every woman whose pregnancy does not result in a
- >healthy newborn (after all, how do you know if she really just had a
- >miscarriage? Maybe she did something to make that happen. Throw her in jail!)
-
- >And of course, we'd have to find a way to pay for all the needs of the
- >unwanted children that women are forced to give birth to. And the costs
- >associated with the women's pregnancies.
-
- >I'm sure you'll be willing to pay higher taxes so all these kids can go to
- >school and get a decent education, right?
-
- >Businesses will lose out too. They've spent money training women for jobs,
- >and now some of these women will be out on maternity leave or in jail.
-
- >Sure, Jeff, let's just build a few more prisons and lock these women up.
- >It will do wonders for our economy.
-
-
- > .... Heather.
-
-
- Ms. Sims,
-
- Pro-life groups do NOT support the blanket prosecution of every woman
- who has an abortion. Stop perpetuating this lie.
-
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
-
- Edward Simmonds- standard disclaimers
-
-