Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Planned Parenthood Message-ID: <683@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 21:09:45 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.683 Posted: Wed Aug 21 21:09:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 02:16:16 EDT References: <22@dscvax2.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 27 In article <22@dscvax2.UUCP> mn@dscvax2.UUCP (Matt Noah) writes: >Aside from the purely humanistic arguements, there are people in this >country who believe in God and practice a particular religion. Some >religious beliefs hold human life as sacred. Do you think PP considers >a woman's particular religous affiliation before "counseling"? I certainly hope not. We wouldn't want to abridge her religious freedom as well as her biological freedom, now would we? > Just because a person belongs to a particular church, doesn't mean >they don't consternate over decisions which are difficult in light of >church teaching. Pressures from different directions affect almost all >of our moral decisions. The woman that walks in to PP is pushed in one >direction - abortion. Well, I'm sure God will prevail, Matt. I don't know of any self-respecting cousellor who doesn't suggest that the woman consult with a preacher of her particular faith. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal Have they not suffered enough?" from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_