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- From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
- Subject: Re: The issue is abortion, not choice
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.145632.20904@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:56:32 GMT
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- dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >The label "anti-choice" is not a correct characterization of
- >the pro-life position. The label implies that pro-lifers are
- >opposed to the choice to "terminate a pregnancy", which is false.
- >They are opposed to an action which results in the death of an
- >innocent human being. If it were possible to transfer the child
- >to another person's care without killing the child, then few
- >pro-lifers would be opposed to the choice to "terminate a pregnancy".
-
- Okay, that's reasonable. But let me ask you three questions:
- (1) Do you feel that the right to life overrides all other rights
- absolutely?
- (2) Do you see any problems that legislation against abortion might
- cause?
- (3) Do you understand that people are calling you 'anti-choice' because
- you're giving the woman no choice other than to give birth?
-
- >The label "pro-abortion" is a correct characterization of the
- >pro-choice position. Pro-choicers not only want the right to
- >choose to "terminate a pregnancy", but also the right to choose
- >to have the child executed in the womb if the child happens to be
- >mentally retarded or physically handicapped or of the wrong sex.
-
- That's not at all reasonable, and in saying it you demonstrate that a
- lot of what's been said to you in this newsgroup in the past has gone
- in one ear (eye?) and out the other.
-
- I don't like abortion, and I will do my best to advise women against
- it, but it's none of my business to tell them they can't have one. If
- this makes me 'pro-abortion', then what do you call the people who
- advocate abortion in cases where the woman has any doubt? 'Pro-death'?
-
- I support the right to choose to have the _fetus_ _aborted_ (please
- lose the emotionalist buzzwords). If she wants to abort a fetus for
- some reason that I don't like, then that's just too bad for me, but I
- have no right deciding when abortion is 'okay' or not, and I have no
- right putting the woman on trial to decide whether or not she's
- telling the truth when she gives her reasons for wanting an abortion.
-
- See?
-
- --
- _/_/_/ Brian Kendig Je ne suis fait comme aucun
- /_/_/ bskendig@netcom.com de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire
- _/_/ n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
- / Nolite te bastardes Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre.
- / carborundorum. -- Rousseau
-