Abortion, another view. - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner Jul 21 23:43:00 1983
After committing the rhetorical equivalent of arson, Dave signs
off with the self-cancelling "Respectfully".
It would have been far more honest for him to close by asking us
how we would have liked it if *we* had been torn to bits and sucked into
a jar. That seems to the ultimate retort in the "pro-life" arsenal.
Reassembling the Pieces of my Aborted Composure,
Michael Turner
ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner
Courtney Loomis
hp-pcd!courtney Jul 27 13:14:00 1983
It is noble to make graphic the biological realities of abortion so
that people can be aware of the act that the may choose to instigate.
I hope that those who are so vocal and righteous about the "unholiness"
of abortion are as equally vocal in response to:
-the slaughter of dolphins and whales for the sake of COST-REDUCING
perfumes and pet food... intelligent, social, and feeling
beings (as much or more so than a fetus).
-the use of leg-hold traps... a slow death of an agony that
most humans can hardly imagine.
-the use of scarce world resources to build arsenals beyond conceivable
utility, instead of using those resources to feed the millions of
people in this world who live in pain daily for lack of a basic meal.
FACT -hunger is a problem of resource distribution, not one of
inability to produce the food.
The list could go on. Perhaps what is needed is an abortion technique
which kills the fetus much more quickly and painlessly. Abortion is a
recognition of the fact that humans are fragile and subject to error.
It is absurd to exacerbate the mistake of conceiving an unwanted child
by bringing such a pregnancy to term.
Courtney Loomis