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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
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- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:13:04 GMT
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- brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
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- >In article <bob1.727980568@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
- >>
- >I most surely will. (Do you prefer to be referred to as "Grouch" or "Bob
- >Blackshaw"?) I am most capable of constructing cogent arguments, and quite
- >frankly, I feel that the strategy used by Suzanne Forgach incorrectly
- >represents the abortion issue. It infuses a powerful emotion of horror
- >that I feel must be avoided if we are to come to a rational solution to
- >this problem.
- >
- >This is why I sought to moderate Suzanne's and Steve's arguments. Suzanne
- >made abortion seem horrible by linking it to the Holocaust; Steve argued
- >that abortion is quite mild in comparison to it. In a way, both were right.
- >In a way, both were wrong. I hoped to point out these ways, and in the
- >process bring the emotion out of it.
-
- Hmm. I don't think this is what I meant. I pointed out the difference in
- the two situations. One of them was a concerted effort by one man (or a
- small group of people) to kill off entire classes of people. The other is
- millions of individual decisions.
-
- I don't like either one, being that I object to abortion on personal
- religious grounds, but each abortion is a personal decision made by the
- woman. There is no single person, or small group of persons, forcing
- abortions on anyone. And as a supporter of liberty, I can't deny a woman
- the right to control her own body.
-
- -Steve
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