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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: COMPROMISE AND THE ABORTION TOPIC
- Message-ID: <nyikos.728172225@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:03:45 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.012725.13783@bsu-ucs> <1993Jan23.020048.17561@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan23.055439.10402@news.columbia.edu>
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- In <1993Jan23.055439.10402@news.columbia.edu> rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan23.020048.17561@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan19.012725.13783@bsu-ucs>
- >>00bbharris@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >>
- >>> All i've seen thus far in this newsnet (and i'm new to it) is a bunch of guys
- >>> debating what is essentially a woman's decision. But, being a man myself
- >>> i find myself needing to post. (I am after all, gay... as if)
- >>
- >>I think you'll find that the vast majority of women do not
- >>support unrestricted abortion-on-demand. Polls tend to show
- >>that women want to give the child some legal protection.
- >>Simple restrictions like waiting periods and informed
- >>consent provisions have especially widespread support.
- >>
-
- [lots deleted, because I deal with it in another follow-up]
-
- >>> Secondly, pro-lifers usually talk of adoption. Under normal circumstances,
- >>> i would agree, but in America (where adoption homes and foster homes and
- >>> orphanages are poorly run and funded) i am highly against it.
-
- Still the supply is far less than the demand. You are beginning to sound
- like a pro-abort, not a pro-choicer. Do you think being adopted, or
- shunted from one foster home to another, is a fate worse than death?
- Edward Simmonds could tell you a thing or two. [Copy of this post goes to
- him.] In fact, he could tell you lots of things neither I nor Doug could.
- You see, he is adopted, along with several siblings.
-
- >>If you're against children suffering in foster homes and orphanages,
- >>then why don't you kill them too? After all, you'd be doing them a
- >>favor, right? How can YOU tell a child that they have no right to
- >>live because their life doesn't meet YOUR expectations?
- [....]
- >>> Then, what we have are a group of uneducated
- >>> individuals, if they even survive entact.
- >>
- >>That's right, uneducated individuals should not be allowed to live.
- >>How kind of you, "Brandon".
-
- >You are fantasizing again doug. Take your medicine.
-
- No, the guy to whom Doug is talking is fantasizing. Doug is trying to
- give him a dose of his own medicine.
-
- >>> Are all those pro-adoption-lifers
- >>> going to adopt a child they save,
- >>
- >>Sure. You stop killing children, and people will adopt them.
-
- >They don't even adopt the ones out there already.
-
- They would if it weren't for all the #$@$!&%! red tape. But must the
- pro-lifers do all the cutting? Why can't you pro-choicers live up
- to your name and lend a hand, instead of using stuff like the above
- as the excuse to promote the pro-abortion agenda of Planned Parenthood
- and other "pro-choice" organizations?
-
- >Secondly, unless you are going to legislate that a woman must get
- >pre-natal care, and must refrain from smoking, drinking, etc. for the
- >duration of her pregnancy, you are only going to bring more sick,
- >brain damaged children who will never be adopted into the world. Is
- >part of your theoretical legislation going to be controling the
- >behavior of pregnant women?
-
- I don't know. What are your thoughts on the matter? For sure, I would
- rather you gave the life of those children a chance (as in: "Give peace
- a chance.").
-
- >>> Thirdly, i'd rather see the potential for life die than watch two lives go
- >>> (the mother and the child) in an unsafe abortion.
- >>
- >>False dichotomy. Nobody has to die.
-
- Except for ectopic pregnancy, this is true in
- all but 1 in a hundred thousand cases.
-
- >If you think that people don't die in illegal abortions, you are
- >ignorant or stupid. Which is it, doug?
-
- Ditto legal abortions. No statistically significant difference, if past
- history is any indication.
-
- >>> Making abortion illegal WILL NOT make it go away, people.
- >>> Let's try and end this on a different level.
-
- Keeping it legal does not make deaths (of the mothers, that is) go away.
-
- >>Nobody ever said that abortion would "go away" completely.
- >>But that's not a justification for unrestricted abortion-
- >>on-demand. Rape and homicide will never go away either...
-
- >Rape and homocide have demonstrable negative effects on society as a whole,
- >as well as on individual members of society. Abortion does not. This is
- >an invalid metaphor. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- The highlighted statement is false. See my post, "The PAS of NancyJo Mann,
- founder of WEBA, Part 1" posted earlier today, for a start. People
- involved in WEBA, Project Rachel, and most other forms of post-abortion
- counseling, could tell you lots more.
-
- >Robert Johnston
-
- >'finger dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu' for documentation which shows that
-
- Here there was a patently dishonest line, inserted by Robert Johnston.
- Maybe Doug had something relevant to say, but you'll have to finger
- the address to find out what the topic was.
-
- Pro-choice, your name's a lie; you don't even want people to see all
- the documentation available to help make their choices.
-
- Peter Nyikos
-