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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.141354.29619@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <C01u1B.7H9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan2.204902.8667@rotag.mi.org> <C0F9wF.1G7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:13:54 GMT
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- In article <C0F9wF.1G7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
- >kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >>In article <C01u1B.7H9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
- >>>hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>>
- >>>>In a previous article, vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu wrote:
- >>>>>
- >>>>>The resistance you hear from "us" concerning social programs is not
- >>>>>a result of our lack of respect or concern for human life, rather it is
- >>>>>from the opposite, our concern for human life. Creating a welfare state
- >>>>>inhibits people's belief in themselves, promotes and reinforces their
- >>>>>feelings of helplessness rather than encouraging the desire to change their
- >>>>>situation by themselves, and punishes those who have accepted the
- >>>>>responsibility for their own destiny (ie. people who work).
- >>>
- >>>>Really, those poor, homeless, and hungry children should just take
- >>>>responsibility for their lives and find a job. Funding programs such as
- >>>>WIC will just encourage infants and children to be lazy bums.
- >>>
- >>>Those poor, homeless and hungry children should have had parents responsible
- >>>enough to realize they couldn't afford to feed children. If they could
- >>>have controlled their hormones there wouldn't be a problem.
- >
- >>It is far more realistic to subsidize abortion, maybe even to incentivize it,
- >>than to rely on people "controlling their hormones", and it achieves the same
- >>economic result, i.e. reduction of the birth rate among poor people.
- >
- >Ahh.. I see. You don't think poor people are capable of making intelligent
- >decisions by themselves. You want to make sure you hold their hand since
- >you are so superior.
-
- I'm not making a decision for anyone, "vengeanc", I'm offering them a choice
- which, when chosen, happens to have beneficial effects on the national
- economy. It is the anti-choice faction who wants to take away the choices
- and make decisions for people.
-
- >Your statement that the desired result is the "reduction of the birth rate
- >among poor people" is insulting and narrow-minded. The desired result
- >is protect the children, born and unborn.
-
- It is a greater evil, IMO, to bring a child into the world, and inflict on
- it (statistically, at least) a life of suffering and misery, than it is to
- spare it by aborting before it has the capacity to suffer and be miserable.
- This is an example of the quality called "mercy".
-
- >>>You tell me which
- >>>is the worse crime, society refusing to pay deadbeats or deadbeats knowingly
- >>>bringing children into the world whom they cannot feed.
- >
- >>In my opinion...
- >
- >>The WORST "crime" is to let children starve.
- >
- >Is murder a lesser crime than neglect?
-
- Even outside the technical legal definitions, murder implies malice,
- "vengeanc". So, unless you have evidence that ANY abortion ever performed was
- motivated by the pregnant woman's malice, I must dismiss your implication that
- abortion constitutes "murder" as just empty, run-of-the-mill pro-life rhetoric.
-
- >>The second-worst "crime" is to interfere with a woman's decision to abort,
- >>either by mandating or forbidding abortion.
- >
- >Is murder a lesser crime than this?
-
- No. But there is no murder, since there is an absence of malice. And there is
- no manslaughter, since the woman is only asserting her right of Bodily
- Autonomy.
-
- >>The third-worst "crime" is for government to start interfering in sexual
- >>relations between consenting adults by telling them to "control their
- >>hormones" or whatever.
- >
- >Is murder a lesser crime than this?
-
- No.
-
- >>Fourth on my list of "crimes" is for taxpayers to end up supporting children
- >>of poor people who are otherwise unable to support them adequately themselves.
- >>Look at our GNP sometime -- we can easily provide this support.
- >
- >Well then.. since you seem to think murder is okay to end economic problems,
- >why don't you just run out and kill all the homeless, welfare families,
- >unemployed, and elderly.
-
- Because that would have highly-undesirable non-economic ripple effects.
-
- >>>Abortion is murder. It's not a question of just the mother's life, but also
- >>>the baby's. The laws of this country already state that murder is wrong so
- >>>in fact the state already has control over this issue.
- >
- >>Has any state ever successfully prosecuted any woman for "murder", because
- >>she aborted, even BEFORE _Roe v. Wade_? If not, what's your basis for citing
- >>"the laws of this country" in support of your contention that "abortion is
- >>murder"?
- >
- >Of course not.. The women involved are not the murderers. The abortionists
- >are the murderers. I have written on this extensively in this group
- >and I'm not going to repeat myself just because you can't keep up.
-
- By the same token, I'm not going to waste my time scanning through thousands
- of articles trying to find your high-falutin' <snicker> treatises on "murder"...
-
- Suffice it to say though, that I've always found the claim that "abortionists
- are murderers, but women aren't" to be rather, er, anomalous. Shouldn't the
- "hired gun" and the person who hires them be considered _equally_ guilty?
-
- >Your assumption with this stupid argument is that just because no one
- >has every been successfully prosecuted of this before, that it is unreasonable
- >to expect them to be prosecuted for it in the future. Cocaine used to be
- >legal. Now it isn't.. is this something you can't understand?
-
- What I understand is that "abortion is murder" has no moral or legal validity.
- You are welcome to try and persuade me otherwise.
-
- >It might help your ability to debate here if you were remotely familiar
- >with the real facts of the issue, and with what has been said here.
-
- Prosecuting abortionists and/or the women who obtain them is not a "real
- fact", it's rampant speculation based on incoherent rationales. As for "what
- has been said here", to which of the groups in the Newsgroups: line are you
- referring? I'm a fairly regular reader of talk.abortion, but I really don't
- think the Rush Limbaugh groups are exactly, er, excellent sources of objective
- information about abortion, so if you've been dumping your treatises in Rush-
- land, I wouldn't necessarily know about it. Or care.
-
- - Kevin
-