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- From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line ""arbitrary""
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:29:12 GMT
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- cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker) writes:
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- >vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
-
- >>Pregnancy is not a punishment. Pregnancy is a responsibility one must
- >>accept for one's actions. Men who consent to sex should be legally
- >>responsible to support the child emotionally and financially.
-
- >I'd be absolutely fascinated to hear how you propose to legislate that
- >men emotionally support their biological children. Or is abortion the
- >only fit subject for legislation, and should we just trust that men
- >will "do the right thing"?
-
- Did I claim we could legislate that?
-
- Oh, by the way, it's you liberals who are now helping children sue
- their parents for "non-performance"... so in effect YOU are trying to
- legislate this.
-
- >I'm also assuming that you are strongly against the concept of adoption,
- >since it allows all those horrible, slutty men to escape their emotional
- >and financial duties.
-
- You're an idiot if you think anything I have said indicates this.
-
- I am adopted. My sister is adopted. Several of my cousins are adopted.
- Several of my friends are adopted. I can't say how glad I am to know
- that all of these people's biological parents didn't scrape them out
- into a garbage can because my life is enriched by their existance.
-
- >>This society is going down the hill MORALLY. All of these problems stem
- >>from the same thing: lack of moral absolutes. Abortion is a great way to
- >>escape maturity, regardless of your actual age.
-
- >Do share with us your currently fashionable set of politically correct
- >moral absolutes. I need to keep up, since these "moral absolutes" seem
- >to be as changeable as the weather.
-
- Don't use the term "politically correct" with me. Political correctness
- is in the vanguard of support for moral relativism.
-
- I will give you a moral absolute.
-
- Murder is wrong.
-
-
- >>Edward Simmonds- standard disclaimers
-
- > -rocker
-
-
- Edward Simmonds
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-