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- From: hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers (was Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT)
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- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
- References: <1993Jan4.182143.16471@news.unomaha.edu> <C0G8oI.6E1@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1993Jan7.045542.6022@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:58:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.045542.6022@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> wendymas@gnu.ai.mit.edu (hell here) writes:
- >maybe god allows abortions because he truly recognizes
- >the fact that the real reason (as it seems to me - a woman who was raised
- >in a society who was busy telling her what she should be and using guilt
- >to do it) women are prohibited from having abortions is cuz men don't want
- >us to. just maybe. i realize not all are control freaks, but i also realize
- >that not all men want women to be self actualized.
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- I heard a feminist on television say that the reason the government opposed
- importing ru486 was because the leaders of this country did not want women
- to have control over their own bodies. As a man, the reason I am against
- abortion is not because I don't want women to have control over their
- own bodies- its because I don't want women to destroy their children's
- bodies.
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- If women were tatooing ugly pictures on their bodies in the same proportion
- that they are having abortions performed (which may be the case, I don't know)
- I doubt there would be a single protest. Most people don't care very much
- what someone else does with his/her body. If women were having their
- gallbladders removed, who would protest?
-
- The reason abortion has such passionate opposition (by men and women) is
- because it destroys the life of the child. Most politicians are men,
- and abortion is legal. This really has little to do with men wanting
- women to have control over their own bodies.
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