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- From: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.politics.elections
- Subject: Re: politics
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- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:07:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.163821.17023@ncsu.edu>, dsh@zeus.csc.ncsu.edu writes:
- > In article <onv3s2k@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- ||I am pleased to see the Democrats taking such a strong
- ||pro-choice stand, in an election where their opponents have
- ||adopted a plank that includes NO EXCEPTIONS for victims of rape
- ||and incest. The Republicans are extremists.
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- [...]
- |Clinton has said that he wouldn't veto
- |Medicaid funding of abortions for poor women. Nobody has to get
- |an abortion that they don't want, but the Democrats would force
- |people to pay for somebody else's abortion.
-
- Gosh, that's horrible, Doug. The prospect of *your* money being
- spent on abortions upsets you. Well, if money is what is
- important, Doug, why don't you count up how much of your money
- is now spent on welfare for single mothers, Doug? Now ask
- yourself, is that MORE money or LESS money than an abortion?
-
- Abortion costs the taxpayer less than welfare. Good answer, Doug!
-
- Now take one step further. Ask yourself, Doug, which costs
- more: birth control or abortion? Now, Doug, I know you don't
- approve of schools handing out condoms, because you think it's a
- waste of money. You've posted lots about that here. But
- really, aren't condoms pretty cheap in comparison to food stamps?
-
- Isn't birth control more cost-effective than abortion? And
- isn't abortion more cost-effective than welfare?
-
- I hear you, Doug: your money is your god. I'm just trying to
- respect your values.
-
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- cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- "To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability
- of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person
- would always wish to avoid." --Jane Austen
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