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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
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- Subject: Re: Observations on George Bush's abortion position
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.010204.26920@s1.gov>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 01:02:04 GMT
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- George Bush's position, that unwanted pregnancy is a
- legitimate punishment for the sins of those who practice sex for the
- fun of it is _exactly_ like the position of that clergyman I mentioned
- who had denounced lightning rods because it would help escape God's
- punishment of their sins.
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- There were similar objections for other medical procedures,
- like inoculation and vaccination for smallpox, on the ground that
- smallpox was sent as a punishment for its sufferers' sins. There were
- those who rejected anesthesia for women giving birth on the ground
- that Eve was sentenced to bear her children in pain as punishment.
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- And even in the 1920's, there was a leading theologian who
- claimed that _all_ pain was a punishment for sin.
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