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- From: hsims@vax.clarku.edu
- Subject: RE: Let me state my view
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- Date: 25 JAN 93 19:26:43 GMT
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- In a previous article, vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () wrote:
- >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.
-
- Where exactly did I claim this? I was responding only to Jeff Price's post.
- If you go back and read what he wrote above, you'll see that he was talking
- about prosecuting and imprisoning women who have abortions. Could you make
- an effort to read posts instead of making things up?
-
-
- .... Heather.
-