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- From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The issue is abortion, not choice
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.233014.8594@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:30:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.002031.13994@ncsu.edu>
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- From article <1993Jan26.002031.13994@ncsu.edu>,
- by dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger):
-
- > 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".
-
- Are you sure? For whom do you speak? For my part, the only
- reason I'm not anti-choice (i.e., actively opposed to the continued
- legality of abortion) is because I've come to realize that limiting
- choice is a "solution" that: 1) will not work; and 2) will not
- happen.
-
- If the "choice" is to dismember an unborn child and toss his or
- her remains in a scrap bucket, then I am decidedly "anti-choice"
- whether or not the choice is legal.
-
- > The label "pro-abortion" is a correct characterization of the
- > pro-choice position.
-
- Bull. You must get off on starting flame wars.
-
- > 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.
-
- With a little stretch, I could agree that you have described a
- "pro-abortion" individual. I reject your contention that this is
- a "correct characterization of the pro-choice position." I argue
- that, by definition, it is nothing of the sort.
-
- I think you like getting flamed. Adios. Have fun.
-
- --
-
- Steve Matheson Program in Neuroscience University of Arizona
- sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
-