Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!we13!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!iuvax!isrnix!tim From: tim@isrnix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Abortion Message-ID: <255@isrnix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jun-83 12:35:02 EDT Article-I.D.: isrnix.255 Posted: Tue Jun 28 12:35:02 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 06:36:19 EDT Lines: 31 I think there is really only one major argument against abortion and it is one that I do give some weight-that is that it represents the taking of a life in some form. However so does eating cows and chickens and pigs, etc. So does even eating vegetables for that matter! Personally I cannot abidr the idea of eating an animal that has been killed just for me to eat so I follow vegetarianism. However because I personally think vegetarianism is better and shows more respect for life doesn't mean that I will force my own sense of morality on others. it is their own decision whether they will eat murdered animals or not. So I feel that some people could oppose abortion personally out of a respect for life- but I don't think they should impose their moral choice on that issue on others legally-try to encourage people not to have abortions, provide places to take the unaborted babies (AND somewhere to take care of them the rest of their life--it seems that many anti-abortionists forget about the kid once it's born--yet if you wish to see that life brought into the world then you also assume some responsibility for seeing that it is a decent life for that child) I think that many child-beatings occur from unwanted children-the parents were not really prepared to have a kid but had it anyway and resent it's intrusion on their life, the pressure the child creates for more money,etc. Abortion is one means of preventing this type of abuse which results in some really sick kids who may go on to criminal behavior, become psychopaths or just be mentally deranged for the rest of their lives from the experience of being constantly beaten. Another way would be to take those kids and put them in another more loving environment. I would like to see the anti-abortionists put their effort into that instead of into coercing people to follow their own sense of morality. Tim Sevener decvax!pur-ee!iuvax!isrnix!tim