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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Morality and Democracy
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 12:45:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 12:45:49 1984
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> Abortion laws are enforced morality.  They differ strongly from murder laws
> in that quite often the murderer will support the murder laws.  Murder laws
> don't require this 51% repressing 49% - everybody seems to want them,
> and everybody knows why they want them - for personal protection and the
> keeping of the peace.

Does this mean that if 51% of the population of Mississippi in 1860 favored
slavery that it should have been allowed to continue?
    "Anti-slavery laws are enforced morality ..."

>If you can't see a difference you're too tied up in absolutes.

With some issues, there is no moral alternative but to take an absolute
stand.  Many people believe that abortion is (morally) on par with slavery,
or worse.  They feel a moral obligation to be Abraham Lincoln's with
respect to the abortion issue.

		Steve Vegdahl
		Computer Research Lab.
		Tektronix, Inc.