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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Against abortion
Message-ID: <2031@alice.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 21:44:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  6 21:44:12 1983
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	``If women were told of the alternatives
	to abortion, maybe there wouldn't be as many.''

It's a shame you don't share the same compassion you have for
the unborn with the poor people who have to go through this.
Have you ever actually seen an abortion?  Have you seen what
the women go through?  Once I even saw a teenage girl shown
pictures of an abortion by some right-to-life evangelist (I
am not labelling all anti-abortionists evangelists); it was
the cruelist thing I ever saw:  Here's this mixed up kid being
fed on by a preacher trying to shove his will into her, not
even giving her the opportunity to express her feelings.
This is the main difference between pro- and anti-abortionists:
The pro's don't tell people they MUST get abortions, they
merely want the right for themselves; the anti's tell people
they MUSTN'T get abortions, no matter WHAT their philosophical
views.

As for brain activity being the meter of life:  There is a
difference between being a human being in form and being a living
person.  I merely said that I consider a person dead when
his/her brain is dead.  This also happens to be the current
medical definition of death.