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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: I am pro-choice, dare you claim the same?
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  6 00:00:00 1984
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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