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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The issue is abortion, not choice
- Message-ID: <adams.728070069@spssig>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:41:09 GMT
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- 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?
-
- Basically, my objections to abortion are based soley on my religious point
- of view. Given that I've formed this view soley on religion, I don't feel
- that I can impose it on other people who do not accept the same set of
- religiouns 'truths' that I do.
-
- As a member of a society which was founded on the concepts of basic
- liberty, I believe that each person is entitled to do what they think best
- so long as it does not interfere with another person's rights. When it
- does, the government (legal system) is the usual arbitrator, though there are
- other methods of arbitration.
-
- In any event, our laws protect the rights of citizens and aliens living
- here. Clearly, all born persons have a demonstrable set of rights that
- are protected. Prior to viability, there is, as far as I can tell, little
- that would give a fetus liberty interests that outweighed the woman's.
- After viability, there are more questions, and the conflicts in liberty
- ineterests need to be resolved.
-
- I come down on the side of the woman to exercise her choice prior to
- viability, and believe that post-viability abortions should only be
- performed to save the life of the mother. This is how I'd like to
- see the law handle the sitution - no restrictions prior to viabilty, and
- heavy restrictions after (ie only to save the life of the mother).
-
- But, if the choice is between no abortions and late-term abortions, I'll
- take the option of making abortions available.
-
- I've always said that law will never, ever stop abortions, no more than
- prohibition stopped drining, or the War on Drugs(tm) drug use. I prefer
- education (sex & birth control), adoption, counselling, availability of
- birth control, etc, etc. All of these combined will reducde the number of
- abortions...and isn't that what the pro-life goal should be?
-
- What I'm trying to say is that 'pro-life' people are fighting the wrong
- way. Making abortion illegal just won't work. You need to fight the cause
- (poverty, lack of knowledge, cost, etc, etc). Until you adress the basic
- causes, you'll be fighting a losing battle.
-
- -Steve
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