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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 14:53:29 GMT
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- hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
-
- >In article <root.726786680@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >>hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) 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.
- >>
- >>Self defense is not a passive act, yet a death resulting from it is not
- >>'murder.' At least in the aspect of a grave risk to the mother's life, you
- >>have to allow such a decision. Pregnancy can't be a death sentence. The
- >>Levitical laws made exceptions, as did Christ himself.
- >
- >This argument only applies to a very miniscule proportion of abortions in
- >this country. besides, abortion can scarcely be compared to self-defense.
-
- How so? If the choice is between dying (or suffering grave health
- consequences) and abortion, then it appears to me to be just like
- self-defense. I can use all necessary actions to defend my life, up to and
- including killing the attacker if necessary. While the unborn child is
- certainly not actively, by choice attacking the woman, the result is the
- same.
-
- >The child is not trying to kill his mother. this is a question of killing
- >one innocent person to save the life of another innocent person.
- So in other words, because the child does not intend to actively kill her,
- it's ok for her to die?
-
- Will you always chose death for the mother over potential (and that's all
- it ever is, until birth) life for an unborn child? And why do you get to
- chose?
-
- >>>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.
- >
- >>There is a huge difference. A born child is a unique, self-contained
- >>individual, that can be supported by any capable adult, and has demonstrable
- >>rights. A fetus, prior to viability, is not self-contained, or supportable
- >>in any other fashion, and has no demonstrable rights under our laws.
- >
- >So. What does self-sufficiency have to do with the intrinsic value of
- >the individual.
-
- The woman is already born and living. The child is only potentially going
- to live. Not all babies survive birth, and miscarriages from natural
- causes are fairly common. Why should the rights of an unborn child
- outweigh the rights of a born person?
-
- >If a mother had a baby on a desert island, with no other
- >food source for the child, wouldn't it be immoral for her to not nurse the
- >child.
- Straw man....you set it up to knock it down. This analogy disappears for
- every case of abortion in a society like ours...
-
- >>And they are...if you take drugs during a pregnancy that you intend to
- >>carry to term, you can be prosecuted.
- >
- >Yet, you can kill the baby and it is perfectly legal.
-
- It's intent....if you *intend* to bring the child to term, harming him/her
- is a violation...
-
- >>>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.
- >>
- >>Nothing says we can't change the laws...nothing says you can't protest.
- >>But you can't violate someones rights in doing it. By blockading a clinic
- >>you are inhibiting a woman's right to avail herself of a legal medical
- >>procedure.
- >
- >But, on the other hand, it may lessen the likelihood that she would kill her
- >child. Obviously, those who blockade clinics feel that it is better to
- >(sometimes) disobey the law than to allow a child to be legally killed.
-
- And will you take responsibility for all of the ramifications of preventing
- her from obtaining an abortion?
-
- -Steve
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