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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Morality and Democracy
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 13:24:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 13:24:53 1984
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Steve Vegdahl =<
>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.

I consider the pro-lifer's demand that women carry their pregnancies
against their will, as an attempt to enslave women.  A slave has no right
to control his/her body. But this is exactly the program that pro-lifers'  
want to impose on women.  They want do deny women the right to 
control their bodies.

Oh, but "pro-lifers" say: "We are concerned with the right of the unborn".
If you are so concerned with the lifes of the fetuses, then why don't you
work on an artificial techniques to preserve the life of the fetus outside
the womens' womb. I think that such approach would be more productive
than enslaving women.
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Yosi Hoshen, Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois, (312)-979-7321, Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho