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- From: hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <C0q3oG.KJz@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
- References: <adams.726592808@spssig> <C0pAqt.Jr@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1993Jan12.021048.2261@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:12:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.021048.2261@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>Abortion is not a passive act. It is an act of violence and aggression.
- >>The government should outlaw murder. The woman who has an abortion does not
- >>just decide not to carry her child in her body. She actually has her child
- >>killed.
- >>
- >Nonsense. She has a fetus removed from her body. That it dies is
- >simply a fact of it's inability to survive as anything other than a
- >parasite, at this stage.
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- How many abortions are performed simply by removing the child from the womb
- without harming it? What about "vaccumming" and saline abortions?
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- >>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.
- >>
- >No mother or father is required to use their body to care for their
- >children. They are free to provide care via a nanny, grandma, sitter,
- >or adoptioni agency. Requiring them to use their bodies would mean
- >they could be forced to donate bllod/tissues/organs to the child. This
- >is not true.
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- Requiring the use of the body need not require blood/tissue/organs.
- If you provide a nanny/grandma/sitter you have to use your body to dial the
- phone, talk to the sitter, sign the check, etc.
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- LINK HUDSON.
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