Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: I am pro-choice, dare you claim the same? Message-ID: <190@looking.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 00:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: looking.190 Posted: Sat Oct 6 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 02:39:03 EDT References: <929@phs.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 21 It's nice to think that pro-choice implies only "pro-choice when it comes to abortion", but I have trouble swallowing it. The reason is that many pro-choice-abortion advocates defend their position by saying they are defenders of individual freedom. I certainly make that claim. The problem is that many who make it *aren't* defenders of individual freedom as a principle, they are defenders of freedom in one particular issue. As you have pointed out, anti-abortionists call themselves "pro-life", and this doesn't mean that we in the other camp are pro-death. Similarly the fact that they are anti-choice doesn't imply that the other camp is pro-choice. I have never said that pro-choice == pro-abortion. If you've read any of my ardent defences of the legality of abortion, you would know that. Now if you want to be pro-choice-abortion, please be so, but I ask you to think about the philosophy of individual freedom and how much you really support it. Forcing people to pay for abortions and banning books are moral issues, too, and they no more belong in the law than abortion rules. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473