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- From: brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: control
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:14:16 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- More exchange between Adrienne and myself. I'm even ">"s; she's odd...
-
- >>>Can you tell us what other alternatives occur to you?
- >
- >>I admit, not a whole lot. Embryo transplants. "Metal mommas". Better
- >>contraceptives. I fear our medical expert, Mark Cochran (who _still_
- >>won't tell me what T.S.A.K.C. stands for), could knock most of my ideas
- >>down as impractical, since he could argue circles around me when it
- >>comes to the medical profession.
- >
- >>But then, I'm just one person, and a CS major at that. There _are_
- >>other people working on "another alternative", people who are more
- >>qualified than I.
- >
- >One presumes you are old enough to vote, or soon, anyhow. GIVEN that there
- >are no metal mommas, and contraceptives are not yet 'better', and embryo
- >transplants have their own limitations (a lack of receiving wombs being one
- >of them), how do you propose we handle the alternatives available TODAY?
-
- (20 years old, so yes, I am old enough to vote.) Right now, today, there is
- no tomorrow: I have no alternatives. But as I said, I'm not the person to
- be asking.
-
- >>It seems the majority of the population sees this is a problem with only
- >>two solutions: either the fetus gets its life, or the mother gets her
- >>privacy.
- >
- >Today, I'd agree with most of the population that this is the nature of our
- >problem, myself. Sorta Kinda.
-
- Understood. As highly as I speak of "the other options", I can't think of
- any viable alternatives the nation can use at this time, either.
-
- > Afterall, women who want children allow the
- >fetus its life, and the mother retains her privacy -- it's just that the
- >privacy includes the fetus. We are really only speaking of the other 94% of
- >the female population. Yeah, that group. The group of adult women who don't
- >want to become pregnant, which is most of us.
- >
- >We don't have that whiz bang technology yet that will render this argument
- >moot. So what do *you* propose we do? I propose that we let individuals
- >settle the matter individually, according to their own consciences.
-
- I simply cannot agree until you (or someone else) can convince me that the
- life of the unborn child will not be directly threatened, or that the life
- of the mother will be threatened more, or that the unborn child isn't alive
- at all, or any other circumstance that would render the pro-life case moot.
-
- If no lives are at stake, I would be very willing to leave this matter to
- the individual.
-
- Paul Brinkley
- brinkley@cs.utexas.edu
- Pro-Thought Advocate
-
- human lives will be directly threatened,
-