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- From: martyg@ocf.berkeley.edu (Martin Guerrero)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: A little bit of calm thinking
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 23:37:21 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- Keywords: abortion,human,rights
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- In article <BuFJpx.6wu@world.std.com> rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker) writes:
- >
- >Most so-called pro abortion folks would still advocate effective birth
- >control as prererable to abortion. Unfortunately, the anit-aborts do not
- >reciprocate reasonably. Proof? Say RU-486 in their presense, then duck and
- >cover. The vocal anti-aborts (I won't call them pro-life), or at least a
- >substantial majority, would impose their cookoo notions of ensoulment,
- >then invoke same to oppose the use of RU-486, because it is an
- >abortifaceant. This troglodites beleive that once sperm and egg are
- >unitited, a fully souled person exists. If they believe so, let them. They
- >shouldn't have abortions or use RU-486. But what about the rest of us?
- >These proto-Ayatolahs are not content to have an opinion, the must insert
- >their beliefs into the moist orifices of everyone in reach.
- >
- >A pox and a plague on them.
-
- Once again, a wedge is put on the pro-life side:
- Pro-life base their opinions mostly on religion and since there is
- separation of church and state, it is abhorrent for them to "impose"
- their religious views on us.
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- Why wedge the pro-lifers? There are many non religious folk, and even
- athiests who are pro-life. Do they base their opinions on some
- "religious notion?" I don't think so.
-
- Perhaps there is more to this debate than calling pro-lifers a bunch
- of religious fanatics "imposing" their religious views.
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