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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: how i become pro-life
- Message-ID: <root.726249006@spssig>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:50:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.040648.23244@fuug.fi>
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- Another gutless anonymous posting...
-
- an3329@anon.penet.fi writes:
-
- >For a long time I was pro-choice because I thought pro-life people were
- >crazy religious nuts.
- Not all, but some notable examples : Operation Rescue, Missionaries to the
- Pre-born
-
- >I thought they were trying to impose their religious beliefs on the rest of
- >the nation.
- Which, of course, they are....
-
- >I was scared they might try to get other things outlawed and this nation
- >would become a religious nation.
- Listen to Pat Robertson, or worse, Randall Terry....I mean it. Really
- listen.
-
- >I didn't want religious nuts taking over this great nation of ours.
- They are bent on doing it, though.
-
- >I saw it as a culture war and I didn't want their culture pushed on me
- >because I thought it was hateful culture. They hated gays and atheists and
- >women and I wanted no part of a hate-filled culture like theirs.
- Good thing...
-
- >Then I began to think about my abortion beliefs. I didn't have any! I just
- >despised the culture of the pro-life people. They were the enemy to me. I
- >didn't even try to think that abortion might be killing babies because I
- >despised the pro-life culture so much. I began reading books and articles
- >on abortion and I became convinced that abortion is killing babies. Democrats
- >have always been the ones who have helped the sick, the weak, the helpless.
- Democrats have also been in the forefront of the fight for personal,
- individual liberty, and the right to control one's own body.
-
- >It saddens me to see that many of my friends don't share that belief when
- >it comes to abortion.
- Not all of my friends agree with my political views...so what? That just
- means we're different...
-
- >I see many pro-choice people saying hateful stuff at pro-life people here
- >and I think maybe they should think about why they're saying that stuff.
- Hateful??? The pro-life crowd are the ones tossing around the accusations
- of murder, etc.
-
- >I think many of them were like me and they just despise pro-life culture and
- >they haven't really thought about their abortion beliefs. It's easy to say
- >lots of nasty stuff at pro-life people because much of the public despises
- >them and makes fun of them. But abortion is not funny.
- I don't laugh. I am anti-abortion, but pro-choice. One can be opposed to
- abrtion yet understand the need for it to be availble. I have thought a
- lot about it. I was pro-choice and not opposed to abortion, then I was
- totally pro-life, now I am anti-abortion and pro-choice. To me, that seems
- a proper position...
-
- >I also see bad stuff from some pro-life people and I wish they would be more
- >loving and compassionate towards pregnant women. Don't just tell women not to
- >have abortions, help them and love them! We can't prevent every abortion but
- >we must show our love and respect towards women and babies no matter what.
- >Many of you will never know what it's like to face an unwanted pregnancy. It's
- >wrong to judge women for getting abortions. They need our love not our hate.
- Well, then go talk to Operation Rescue and/or Missionaries to the Pre-born.
- They seem to have missed this message...
-
- One can be religious, even fundamentalist (which simply implies a
- fundamental reading of the Bible and personal application of the same)
- without imposing ones view on the rest of society.
-
- Post using your real name and account next time, eh?
-
- -Steve
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