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- From: tanj@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Ren and Stimpy's Love Child)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The issue is abortion, not choice
- Message-ID: <6023@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:51:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.002031.13994@ncsu.edu> <C1FxF5.L4I@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C1FxF5.L4I@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
- >For those who are personally opposed to abortion, but don't want to force their
- >opinions on anyone, and are thus "pro-choice", could you please explain why you
- >are against abortion, if not for the reason that it causes the death of an
- >unborn child, and if it causes the death of an innocent human, why do you act
- >in favor of allowing that to continue?
-
- The reason I am personally opposed to abortion is that it is a sad day
- when a potential is destroyed. In the case of abortion, that potential
- has progressed quite a long way indeed, so I myself would be loathe to
- deny it. However, this does not give me the right to assign a risk of
- death and injury and pain to another person in forcing them to carry a
- pregnancy against their will, this aversion to destroying
- potential.
-
- There have been a few sad days for me lately, because my husband and I have
- recently destroyed a big potential-- he had a vasectomy. That I am sad
- (Post Vasectomy Syndrome anyone? :-S) does not means that he has killed
- about 3 babies, although the virtual effect is the same as if I
- had 3 abortions. The babies will not come into being.
-
- We did this because my husband has several congenital diseases which he does
- not wish to pass on to anyone else.
-
- The thing is, life is made up of decisions that destroy potential so that
- another, perhaps more wonderful, potential may be realized. We are now free
- to adopt children that would otherwise languish unloved in orphanages.
- In addition to not wanting to arbitrarily assign pain, death, and injury
- to a woman whose life I know nothing about, I also question the state's
- ability to decide the most intimate, life-wrenching decisions a woman
- may make in her entire existence. I just don't think it would do a humane
- job of that if it forced every pregnant woman to give birth.
-
- --Teddi
- -----------------Another Catholic School Survivor (12 years!)------------------
-