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- From: pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.213955.15065@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:39:55 GMT
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- I usually make it a policy not to try to discuss abortion with people
- who are unwilling to admit the *possibility* that they may be wrong, but
- here goes anyway. (I know I'll regret it, but I just can't help myself
- any longer.)
-
-
- In article <C0pAqt.Jr@athena.cs.uga.edu> hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
- >
- >Abortion is not a passive act. It is an act of violence and aggression.
-
- Your unproven opinion.
-
- >The government should outlaw murder.
-
- It has.
-
- > The woman who has an abortion does not
- >just decide not to carry her child in her body. She actually has her child
- >killed.
-
- The basic problem here is the use of the word "child". What child? The
- basis of disagreement is whether a fetus is a child. Surely, you must
- admit that if there is no child, there is no murder.
-
- Upon what facts do you base your decision that a fetus is a child?
- Because it has arms and legs, a head, a torso & looks like a baby? So
- does a cabbage patch doll. Because it is alive? So is a dandelion.
- Because it reacts to stimuli, like pain? So do some simple organisms.
- Most reasonable people would agree that there is a point at which a
- fetus becomes a child. The disagreement is when? Personally, I believe
- that it has to do with brain activity. I would even go so far as to say
- that current law allows abortions to take place after said change
- occurs. However, to say that ALL abortion is murder is just brainless
- and silly.
-
- >
- >There is a serious inconsistency in government policy. It is illegal for a
- >mother to abandon her child, or to neglect him in some other way. One
- >can even be arrested for not feeding one's horses in this country.
- >Generally, parents have a legal responsiblility to their children. If mothers
- >and fathers can legally be held responsible to use their bodies to care for
- >their children, then mothers should legally be held responsible to use
- >their bodies to protect their children in the womb.
- >
-
- Again, you are assuming the unproven "fact" that any fetus, at any stage
- of development, is a child.
-
- [Biblical Deletia]
-
- >Those who excercise civil disobedience to protect these young human lives
- >obviously feel that by doing nothing they would be violating God's law to
- >protect the innocent.
- >
-
- Same assumption here.
-
- From listening to 'All abortion is murder' types, I get the impression
- that they are as much opposed to the prevention of a potential child
- as they are opposed to what they believe to be murder. At what point
- does this stop? Why then, isn't contraception murder? Why isn't
- abstinence murder? (Willfully preventing the creation of a child).
-
- As someone recently pointed out, in order to discuss, you must have *some*
- common ground. If you wish to convince anybody, you need to first show
- what beliefs you share, and work from there. You have not done this.
-
- -Pete
- pcrayne@halcyon.com
- "Clever, applicable quote."
-