NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/talk/abortion/46918

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From: [e-mail] (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE)
Subject: Re: Right to Choose
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:56:49 GMT


[e-mail] (Andrew Hackard) writes:

|>[e-mail] (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE) writes:
|>>[e-mail] (Andrew Hackard) writes:
|>
|>>Sorry about that I have recently realized that they are there(stupid me)
|>
|>Not stupid.  New, therefore ignorant.  Most of us understand that, though
|>there are a few relatively intolerant folks.
|>
|>>I think I am finnally catching onto this net thang.
|>
|>I think you are too.
|>
|>>|>"Andy" (and I prefer Andrew, as my .sig says...never mind the username :-) )
|>>|>didn't say any such thing.  Brian Kendig did...not that I *mind* being
|>>|>given credit for Brian's remarks.  Just pointing out that it's easy to get
|>>|>lost when you aren't paying VERY close attention.
|>
|>>Sorry 'bout that Andrew :)
|>
|>Believe me, that's hardly the worst thing I've ever been called.  :-)
|>Don't worry about it.
|>
|>>Yes it is easy to get lost.
|>
|>See?  I *told* you you were getting the hang of it... ;-)
|>
|>>|>>I guess I did not make that clear enough. In my eyes no responsible person
|>>|>>would get a convienet abortion.
|>>
|>>Did you know there is only one clinic in South Dakota.This is my plan have
|>>only one clinic in each state so that it is a long drive and long waiting lines
|>>once they get there.
|>
|>Ah.  This I take issue with.  If you throw up more obstacles to the process
|>than there already are, you're blocking even those women whom you have
|>admitted (grudgingly) have a valid reason to want an abortion.  Further, it's
|>simply unfair, and there aren't any clinics I'm aware of that only perform
|>abortions in any event.  You might want to rethink this.
|>
Again I make my self unclear. I was being sarcastic. Someone was getting
technical on my reference to a *convienent* abortion. I said that to show
that the convience I was talking about was not one of its easy to do but
one of avoiding responsibility. Please to responses on that I learnt
my lesson if you please read what Andrew writes further down.

|>>|>Seriously, you trivialize the abortion process by describing it as
|>>|>"convenient", and you trivialize the anguish some women (and their
|>>|>families, in many cases) go through in making the decision to abort
|>>|>by calling it "irresponsible".  Frankly, that's not your judgement
|>>|>to make.
|>
|>>I have apperantley struck on nerve on this issue of responsibility
|>>(irresponsibility).
|>
|>Yep.  People get tetchy when you tell them to choose the lesser of two
|>evils and then blame them for choosing an evil in the first place.
|>Further, adults have the freedom to define responsibility in terms of
|>their own priorities.
|>
|>>Since I brought it up and I have gotten a lot of questions
|>>I think I'll post something about it. (in a while) :-0
|>
|>I'll look forward to it.
|>
I have it on my list but am not sure when I will post it because I am
getting busy with a few papers due. :-(

|>--
|>--Andrew Hackard

-Jeff Price

    "What is legally permissible rapidly comes to be seen as
     morally acceptable"
            - Cardinal Cahal Daly of Ireland