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- From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:59:12 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- References: <1ia3g9INN4nb@meaddata.meaddata.com> <1993Jan4.205628.11758@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1icdflINNsnv@meaddata.meaddata.com> <1993Jan5.181125.17922@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan5.181125.17922@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- |> In article <1icdflINNsnv@meaddata.meaddata.com> johnt@meaddata.com
- |> (John Townsend) writes:
- |>
- |> }I, for one, have chosen life.
- |>
- |> Congrats. It can be a relatively unpopular thing to choose life
- |> over war -- a lot of people seem to think they can "choose life"
- |> and rationalize away exceptions for war or whatever.
-
- Talk about myopia. Read me again:
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- I think it's important to recognize that neither Choice nor Life are sacrosanct.
- We constantly face limits on our choices. I'd choose to be a billionaire, but
- no one seems to be indulging me that right. Likewise, should we not build
- things like the Golden Gate Bridge or go to war, if there is a probability that
- human life may be lost in the process of conducting these endeavors? Of course
- we should, if other conditions are met. The question is which right should
- hold sway over the other when they conflict. I, for one, have chosen life.
-
- |> ps I don't think the Guttmacher survey on abortion had a slot for
- |> "convienence"? Was that your own "editorial" comment?
-
- Yep. The actual slots were: unwanted change in lifestyle, unwanted responsi-
- bility, can't afford it, relationship problems, not mature enough, and already
- have enough kids. In other words, inconvenient.
-
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