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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.213322.18029@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 21:33:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.203000.2255@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan8.172612.17505@news.unomaha.edu>
- >trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre) writes:
- >>hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu writes:
- >
- >>> It is said that Roe v. Wade allows abortion up to the 9th month.
- >
- >> First of all, the Court last June (I believe) redefined Roe v.
- >> Wade. Secondly, The Court who determined Roe v. Wade
- >> allowed the state to proscribe abortion in the last
- >> trimester (or last three months of pregnancy) unless
- >> the woman's health was threatened. Please look up the
- >> decision if you are in doubt.
- >
- >But the definition of ``health'' given in Roe v. Wade
- >and the companion case Doe v. Bolton is so broad that it
- >encompasses emotional and psychological health. In order
- >to perform a constitutionally protected abortion, a physician
- >need only determine that an abortion is necessary to preserve
- >the woman's emotional or psychological health, which can be
- >easily demonstrated for a woman who would otherwise remain
- >pregnant against her desires.
- >
- Which mean, DODie, that it puts the decision regarding what constitues
- a valid reason for a late term abortion (which accounts ofr something
- like 0.01% of all abortions) in the hands of those best able to make
- that judgement. The pregnant woman and her physician.
- Why do you persist, without any resoning whatsoever, that this is
- either a Bad Thing (tm) or "unrestricted abortion on demand"?
-
- >> Why not a side whereby we let
- >> people make up their own minds, and let God take care of
- >> them in the end?
- >
- >Why not legalize homicide, rape, and robbery, and let God
- >take care of them in the end? Why must you allow your
- >religious beliefs to dictate your attitudes towards secular
- >law in some areas, but not others? If you are to be
- >consistent, you must oppose all secular laws.
- >
- DODie, you're really funny. You have *got* to be pretending. *Nobody*
- could be as stupid as you seem and still tie their own shoes in the
- morning.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
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