Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!mhuxa!mhuxi!mhuxt!eagle!alice!alb 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 Article-I.D.: alice.2031 Posted: Wed Jul 6 21:44:12 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Jul-83 05:04:14 EDT References: <483@ihuxi.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 24 ``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.