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- Subject: Re: Re:Re: ProLife, ProMurder, ProCrime And Iraq
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:36:59 GMT
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- In article <C1HDB4.KAG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jj6707@meibm12.cen.uiuc.edu (John E
- Jablonski) writes:
- >....
- >How about we stop arguing about what we call ourselves and concentrate on
- >the real issue--abortion. I can live with Pro-life and Pro-choice.
- > Any complaints?
- >
- >----John
- >
-
- Forgive me for showing just a snippit of your last post. I want to respond to
- your remark because I consider it EXTREMELY significant. For me, this whole
- abortion debate is interesting and thought provoking, but I care mainly about
- one thing, stopping abortion. If you think the success of the pro-abortion
- side in this country is due to reasoned debate and clearly thought through
- conclusions, you are quite mistaken. Unborn children continue to be killed,
- not because of the reasonableness of abortion, but because of the superior
- public relations skills of its proponents.
-
- If people want to call me "anti-abortion", "pro-life",
- "pro-lie","anti-choice", that's their prerogative. But no one is going to make
- me call them something that I know they are not. The pro-abortion side wants
- very much to distance themselves from the act they are in fact encouraging.
- Instead they use a word that conjures up images of the constitution and the
- American Flag. To an aborted child, the diffence between a "pro-choicer" and a
- "pro-abort" is zilch.
-
- I'm sorry for ranting on like this, but I would be interested in hearing your
- reasons for feeling comfortable with the term "pro-choice".
-
- -Paul
-