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From: pmd@cbscd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Abortion arguments
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Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 13:14:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 16 13:14:55 1983
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    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