Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!homxa!wine From: wine@homxa.UUCP (J.GORDON) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway? Message-ID: <983@homxa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 17:36:43 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.983 Posted: Thu Jun 27 17:36:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 00:58:28 EDT References: <556@bgsuvax.UUCP> <283@vaxwaller.UUCP>, <710@ihlpg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 26 >> From Article 1495: >> >> > I realize I'm in for interesting and thought provoking replys, but >> > I welcome them all and am curious as to your thoughts! One objection I >> > will not even address is " She " or " they cannot handle the >> > responsibility of raising a child!" Who had the big enough responsibility >> > to create the child? >> >> I can't believe that you won't even listen to the issue of the ability >> to raise a child. Listen, just listen, for a second, before you >> decide that you can disregard such an objection... > >Come on. You didn't answer the question. Every freedom carries >responsibility with it. If you want the freedom, you had best be ready for >the responsibility. > > Jean Marie Diaz Not every freedom carries a responsibility with it; how about my freedom to brush my teeth in the morning? The above "argument" begs the issue of who is to decide what responsibilities I should carry, or for that matter what constitutes a responsibility. As has been mentioned before, not everyone considers carrying a fetus to term and then paying $200,000+ to raise it and send it to school, not to mention putting in the time involved in raising it, a responsibility.