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- From: kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The issue is abortion, not choice
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.221421.23863@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:14:21 GMT
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- > = dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >The label "anti-choice" is not a correct characterization of
- >the pro-life position. [...] 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".
-
- An interesting hypothetical, but since this is *not* possible, the reality
- is that pro-lifer's *are* opposed to the choice to 'terminate a pregnancy'.
-
- >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.
-
- I don't suppose there's any point in mentioning it, but your credibility
- really suffers when you make statements like this.
-
- -Brian
-