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- From: clavazi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge)
- Subject: Re: Abortions should be rare
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.034450.28010@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 03:44:50 GMT
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- In article <C1Fon5.8rA@ra.nrl.navy.mil> lebow@psl.nrl.navy.mil writes:
- [...]
- >Sue -
- >
- >I share your anxiety. If you think about though, all Regan-Bush managed to do
- >was alienate everyone but those from the religious right. I realize this is an
- >overstatement, but can you honestly say that Regan-Bush acutally saved one
- >unborn child?
- >
- To say nothing of the many born ones their lackeys snuffed down in
- Nicaragua and El Salvador. Neither Reagan nor Bush are pro-life, only anti-
- abortion. I'm glad you recognize the difference.
-
- >Its ironic that the Democrats and main-stream feminists have taken up the
- >pro-abortion banner. The Democrats are the self-defined party of 'compassion'.
- >Many of the pivotal early feminists such as Susan B. Anthony, were ardently
- >anti-abortion. So what's going on?!
- >
- One possibility: deliberate distortion of the historical record by
- one Mr. Lebow. And the historical fact that abortion was a hell of a lot
- more dangerous *for women* in Anthony's time than it is now. But I'll bet
- you knew that.
-
- >If you pay attention to the language used here you'll find that many of the
- >pro-abortion crowd feel compelled to insult and dehumanize the few pro-lifers
- >on the net. To me, this defensive behavior sounds a lot like people who, deep
- >down, have unconcious nagging doubts surrounding the belief system they've
- >constructed.
- >
- Amazing. You post insulting, sanctimonious tripe like this and then
- you're simply *amazed* when the targets of your insults take offense at them.
- It's really impossible for you to comprehend that people of good will can
- disagree on this issue, isn't it? It would never even cross your mind, would
- it, that pro-choice folks are as convinced of the rightness of thier cause
- as you are of yours?
- There's nothing wrong with being "defensive" when one is under attack,
- Lebow. Try this experiment: take that last paragraph, substitute "anti-
- abortion" for "pro-abortion", and "pro-choice" for "pro-life".
- Now tell me how you'd feel if I wrote something like that about the
- group you seem to identify with. For that matter, think about how the
- re-worded version synchs with the stuff posted here by the likes of Forgach,
- ChaneyHall, Nyikos, Kellmeyer, and others of that ilk.
- Better get that beam out of your eye, sport.
- The_Doge
-