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- From: MNHCC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Marty Helgesen)
- Newsgroups: soc.women,bit.listserv.catholic
- Subject: Re: PREGNANCY
- Message-ID: <93028.113759MNHCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:37:59 GMT
- References: <1993Jan28.150135.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
- Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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- In article <1993Jan28.150135.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>, clg292@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
- says:
- >
- >I am fed up with all this talk about catholic women and abortion.
- >I feel that it is wrong for people to moralise about this subject as it is a
- >situation that very few women will have to face and therefore will never have
- >to consider .
- >As a devout catholic women I had NO reservations about having an abortion at
- >6 months into my pregnancy.
- <<Stuff omitted>>
- >Eileen
-
- Neither Wilberforce in Britain nor the abolitionists in the United States
- had to consider the question of whether or not they should own slaves.
- Therefore, by your reasoning, they should not have moralized about it.
-
- Incidentally, you seem to have discovered a hitherto unknown definition
- of the word "devout."
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- Marty Helgesen
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- "Experience beats in vain upon a congenital progressive."
- -- C. S. Lewis
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