Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Pro-which-life(?) Message-ID: <785@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 13:45:05 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.785 Posted: Mon Mar 19 13:45:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 01:52:22 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 27 My main complaint with the pro-life people is that for many of them, pro-life = anti-abortion. What about being against war, against capital punishment, against vivisection. Frank Schaeffer (son of the well known evangelical Christian writer Francis Schaeffer) has recently written a book, BAD NEWS FOR MODERN MAN, in which he takes a strong stand against abortion, and blasts Cardinal Bernadin of Chicago for saying that pro-life activists should also be against war and capital punishment. Personally, I support the Cardinal's stand, and say that if you are against the one as being destructive of human life, then logically you should also be against the others. I do not understand Schaeffer's view. Admittedly, I have not read the book, only reviews of it. Personally, I am against abortion, but I have a problem. I once had a friend of mine nearly die and become permanently sterile because of a botched "back street" abortion (this was before the Roe vs. Wade decision); and I fear that if abortion were banned, this sort of thing would start happening again. I am also leary of people who make sweeping moral statements saying that something is immoral in all cases. It is a fairly well accepted rule in ethics that the context of an action must be considered before any judgement of its morality may be made. John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs--Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2