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- From: nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
- Keywords: abortion, slavery
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.232855.14970@jetsun.weitek.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:28:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.185223.13128@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Nov17.042749.7615@netcom.com> <1992Nov17.162237.743@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.162237.743@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul Smith) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.042749.7615@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul Smith) writes ...
- >>> dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King) writes:
- >>>> psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul Smith) writes:
- >>>>>Society does offer an alternative to pregnancy - it's called abstinence.
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- >>First, abstinence is clearly not an alternative to pregnancy, since it
- >>neither terminates an existing pregnancy nor assures the prevention of
- >>a future pregnancy. Neither does a lack of abstinence assure the
- >>onset of pregnancy, for that matter.
-
- >Huh? Abstinence = no pregnancy. That was my point.
-
- Ever heard of RAPE?
-
- >No, I think you missunderstand my point. I don't think a set of laws will
- >*solve* the problem either. That's why I'm calling for people to behave
- >responsibly so that the government doesn't have to keep fixing our problems.
- >I never once mentioned a set of laws or that government should do this to
- >you. All I said was what I thought was reasonable behavior to expect from
- >everyone in *this* society.
-
- What you seem to be saying is 'do it my way or I will be forced to
- legislate my way into the legal code.'
-
- >I'd rather see us, as a society, take the stance that abortion is wrong
- >and that we must all do something to make it uneccessary, un-OK, unreasonable,
- >un-whatever, to have one. Don't put words in my mouth, I'm not calling
- >for the government to interfere - unless it must as a very last resort.
-
- What comes next? We all take the stance that the Second Amendment is wrong and
- avoid gun control by voluntarily disarming? That we agree that freedom of
- speech is wrong and shut up?
-
- You are not making sense.
-
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