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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:33:11 -0400
- From: Erik Karl Witte <ew2r+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: SIMPLE ANSWER
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- It seems to me that everyone needs to back off from the abortion issue
- and think about it.
-
- Abortion is a matter of a conflict of rights - the right of a woman to
- have an abortion, and the right of the fetus to come live a life.
-
- One thing everyone can agree upon is that no one can agree. The obvious
- answer is - compromise! How do we compromise on this issue? Well, you
- start by shooting the anti - abortion lunatics and the pro - abortion
- lunatics, because they only cloud the issue. In the end, what most
- people want (according to just about every poll - CNN Gallup, ABC
- Gallup, and a number of others) is that most people favor restricted
- abortions. People want for abortions to be legal but not used.
-
- That doesn't quite work, so look somewhere else, like to Pennsylvania.
- The Pennsylvania Law which was kept mostly intact by a
- moderate-conservative Supreme Court still makes it illegal for a state
- to ban abortions. However, it supports the constitutionality of a
- number of simple restrictions, all of which are based upon simple tenets
- of thought in our society.
-
- For example, the waiting period. What's wrong with making people wait a
- day for an abortion? Nobody has any problem with it for guns. A day's
- wait would save many people's lives in the case of voluntary
- manslaughter, a similar case of something done in a heat of passion, or
- any kind of emotional rage. Forcing a person to wait at least tries to
- insure that they think about their decision.
-
- The same goes for abortion alternatives information. Providing
- information is something that is easy to do. Give women pamphlets to
- read during their one-day wait. They don't have to read them if they
- don't want to, and then they at least have the opportunity of making an
- intelligent choice.
-
- How about the parental consent law. Parents should be allowed to know
- what their child is doing. If the child goes ahead and has an abortion
- with a judge's consent, the parents can punish that child for their
- decision if they wish. This is such a simple concept it is hard to
- believe anyone should be opposed to it.
-
- Americans don't want abortions banned outright, they don't want
- pregnancies to be free of responsibility, and they don't want to pay for
- other people's abortions. Find a middle road. It's hard to believe
- anyone can't like the Pennsylvania Law. It should be made national.
- How about it?
-
- Erik Witte
- - Open your eyes, the solution is before you. -
-