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From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Pro-which-life(?)
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Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 13:45:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 19 13:45:05 1984
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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
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