Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!orion!houca!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbscd5!pmd From: pmd@cbscd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Abortion arguments Message-ID: <206@cbscd5.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 13:14:55 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscd5.206 Posted: Thu Jun 16 13:14:55 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jun-83 00:57:23 EDT Lines: 24 I'm sort of sorry to see the abortion issue raise its ugly head here. As someone once said - "There are no moderates on abortion. You are either for compulsory pregnancy, or you are for killing babies." Don't confuse abortion with birth control. Legitimate methods of birth control prevent conception from taking place. Those opposed to non-therapeutic abortion maintain that life begins at conception. When is pregnancy ever compulsory, except (rarely) as a result of rape? All moral issues aside, I think the feminists are right when they say "If men could have babies, abortion would be a sacrament". tbray Nothing like making an untestable statement to justify your pro-abortion views. Has rape (committed primarily by men) ever been defended as a sacrament? Can we expunge the wrongness of rape by saying that if women were its primary executors and men its victims, women would condone rape? Paul Dubuc