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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Abortions should be rare
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.195007.11399@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 19:50:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.115252.2129@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> hasselbring@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
- >According to both the Washington Post and the Washington Times,
- >Clinton said that America should be a place where abortions are legal
- >and safe, but rare.
- >
- He certainly did. Don't you think that's a good goal to shoot for?
-
- >I wonder what he meant by rare. Does he realize that currently one of
- >every three pregnancies are terminated by abortion? Does he realize
- >that over 4000 babies are aborted per day on the average in the US?
- >
- I think it's safe to say that President Clinton has access to more
- statistics then any of us here would care to wade through. Of course
- he knows wha tthe current rates are.
-
- >I know of no one who thinks that the repealing of the bans on
- >22-Jan-93 will result in fewer abortions. How can Clinton say that he
- >thinks aboritons should be rare when his actions will make abortions
- >more common?
- >
- Perhaps because (being a rational man) he realizes tha tthe way to
- reduce the number of abortions is to address the causes of abortion.
- By education, ensuring the availability of effective, affordable
- contraceptives, and by education.
- Once upon a time, a few people managed to make the consumption of
- alcholic beverages for purposes of recreation outlawed. Did it reduce
- the number of people imbibing these beverages? Nope, not at all. It
- was a total failure.
- If you want to reduce the number of abortions, banning abortions is
- not the way to go about it. Address the causes. Teach kids the truth
- about sex, and how to protect themselves. Encourage them to wait, and
- discourage promiscuous behavior (just don't delude yourself into
- thinking you're going to stop teenage sexual experimentation).
- If no girl ever got pregnant because of birth control failure, or
- because no effective birth control was available, or because she
- didn't know that 'you can't get pregnant if we do it standing up, with
- our left arms tied behind this tree while singing _Amazing Grace_' is
- a lie, how many abortions would be unecessary?
- To paraphrase your last line:
- How can you say that you think abortions should be rare when your
- actions do nothing to address the causes of abortion?
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
- Member, T.S.A.K.C.
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