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- From: k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: ProLife, ProMurder, ProCrime And Iraq
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.044135.17314@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
- Organization: Kalamazoo College
- References: <1993Jan21.162221.9374@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> <1993Jan24.200741.9018@hobbes.kzoo.edu> <1993Jan25.162856.1426@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:41:35 GMT
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- krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- >k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
- >>krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- >>>
- >>>You can tell that this is true by the way "pro-choicers" react any
- >>>time anyone tries to do anything that might decrease the number of
- >>>abortions that occur.
- >>
- >>Ted, do you honestly believe that anyone--ANYONE--thinks abortion is a
- >>good thing? That anyone wants _more_ abortions to occur? That
- >>pro-choicers, upon hearing about an abortion, think "oh, good,
- >>that fetus was killed, that's great"?
- >
- >If not, why not? If the fetus is no different than a hangnail, why
- >shouldn't pro-abortioners think that abortion was a good thing, and
- >that in many cases, especially unwed mothers, that abortion would
- >be desired?
-
- Which is it: do pro-choicers _actually_ react negatively to, say,
- broader dissemination of birth control and sex education? Or are you
- now arguing that, according to the system you've got figured out in your
- head, things could not possibly be otherwise? (Or, are you feigning
- ignorance?)
-
- In any event, I'll explain to you.
-
- An abortion is a medical operation. Are operations, in general, "good"?
- Yes--the patient wouldn't have it if it weren't.
-
- But are more operations better than fewer? No. An operation is a cure
- for a problem; the more cures you have, the more problems you had in
- the first place. No one would deny that a quadruple-bypass is a good
- thing, because the patient would be in big trouble without it. But, to
- make more of these good things, would anyone advocate clogged arteries?
- Of course not.
-
- Likewise, abortion is a cure to the problem of an unwanted child. But
- the problem can often be prevented by better sex education and so on.
- And because an abortion is _not_ as simple as removing a hangnail--for one
- thing, you don't have to wade through angry Bible-thumpers to get a
- hangnail removed--it's better to prevent the problem in the first place.
- I know it, you know it, and every Planned Parenthood employee knows it.
- That's why they lobby hard for sex education in schools.
-
- (I can't believe I just typed in that first-grade treatise on "problems,
- preventions, and cures"...)
- --
- Jamie McCarthy Internet: k044477@kzoo.edu AppleLink: j.mccarthy
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