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To: MEGoody,wideawake,Blood of Tyrants,
What? A kids' book has you freaking out about 'control'? I presume you would rant about 'control' issues when articles are published about books entitled "Johnny Has Two Daddies" or some other such thing. If not, then you are a hypocrite.

Then you won't be offended at all if I produce a kids' book of my own will you? After all it's just a kids' book. So let's get started:

Once upon a time in a land very near here, there were two little towns. One of the towns was called Atown. The other town was called Ztown.

The people of the two little towns were just alike. Except for one thing. The people of Ztown believed that the Bible teaches that abortion is "murder." The people of Atown believed that, while abortion is wrong, that the Bible does not teach it is murder.

Because the people of Ztown believed that abortion is murder, they passed laws to make sure no one ever got an abortion in Ztown.

The people of Atown, though not liking abortion at all, did not pass laws against abortion. They knew that if they did, their own daughters would go to very dangerous places to get abortions. For they also knew that no matter how many laws are passed, people will sometimes still seek to have abortions. Or even worse, try to give them to themselves.

One day the people of Ztown discovered that some of their daughters were sneaking into Atown to have abortions. The mayor of Ztown and all the councilmen and church people were very upset about this. So they called a special meeting with the people of Atown.

"People of Atown," said the mayor, "We believe the Bible says abortion is murder. We believe what you are doing is wrong. Our daughters are sneaking over here to have abortions, and this must stop at once!"

The people of Atown said, "We do not like abortion, and do not approve of it. But we do not believe the Bible says it is murder. However, in respect to your beliefs, we will erect a large wall that will prevent any of your daughters from entering our city to obtain abortions."

The mayor of Ztown, the Ztown councilmen, and the Ztown religious leaders thought this was an excellent idea. They all left the meeting and went home satisfied and content with the agreement. For a while.

The wall was erected as agreed, and none of the daughters of Ztown could get abortions in Atown. But the people of Ztown began to murmur and grumble about the people of Atown.

"People of Ztown," said the Ztown religious leaders, "How can we remain content as long as our neighbors have not outlawed abortion as we have? Surely we have the mandate of God to do something about it, for we claim as our authority the Bible, the word of God, which we all agree says that abortion is murder. We have justification to dictate what a woman can do with her body, because we believe that the fetus is a murder victim. Right?"

The people of Ztown all answered in a shout, "Right!"

So, one moonlit night, the people of Atown were awakened by a clamor at the gate of the wall they had erected to appease the people of Ztown. They were surprised to see all the people of Ztown, including the mayor, the city councilmen and all the religious leaders, standing at the gate, and they were holding torches and rakes and hoes and pitchforks, and making loud angry sounds.

"You must outlaw abortion immediately," cried the mayor. "You must do as we say about this, for we have moral authority to compel you to stop committing murder!"

"What moral authority?" asked the people of Atown.

"The Bible," said the Ztown mayor. "The Bible and science!"

The people of Atown replied, "Since 'murder' is a moral issue, not a scientific one, the opinion of science is moot. And it is our firm conviction based on our study of the Bible that abortion is not murder. We also know that people will have abortions no matter what, and we will not have our daughters going to dirty, dangerous places to have it done. We will not outlaw abortion."

The people of Ztown were outraged. They cried "Murderers! Murderers!" at the Atown gate all night, even cutting themselves with knives in their rage until the rising of the sun.

Then they went home to discuss what they might do to force the people of Atown to do exactly what they wanted them to do.

At first they sent many letters to the people of Atown, letter that were filled with threats and gruesome pictures. They sent long writings from their own religious leaders arguing their position. They sent comic books and made-up stories to try to persuade the people of Atown. They put up signs in Atown. They tried to threaten and bribe the politicians of Atown. Still the people of Atown would not do what the people of Ztown wanted.

Then the people of Ztown tried to get the king of all the land to send armed troops with guns to force the people of Atown to pass the law they wanted. Though they sent many gifts to the king, the king refused.

So the people of Ztown sent Rudolph the Bold-faced Bomber to destroy people and property in Atown. They thought it was okay to send Rudolph, because they believed they were fighting for "innocent unborn children" who they believed were being "murdered."

So Rudoph the Bold-faced Bomber murdered several Atown people who he thought were involved in abortion. And he killed a few lesbians too, just for good measure.

Still, the people of Atown would not pass the laws the people of Ztown wanted. Then, on the next full moon, the people of Atown were awakened once again by a clamor at the gate.

The people of Ztown were there again. Only this time, instead of rakes and hoes and shovels, they were carrying guns.

"People of Atown," they cried, "You must stop murdering babies at once or we must kill you! For the children!"

The mayor of Atown stood atop the wall called out, "People of Ztown! Please, you know that we are content to allow you to live in peace in your community according to your own beliefs and laws. We do not impose our beliefs on you or your children, and we even erected a wall to prevent your children from coming over here."

The mayor of Atown continued, "Now we believe we have the same moral authority for what we believe as you do. Yes, we are in disagreement over what that authority says. But we are content to leave you in peace about it. Please leave us in peace."

As the word "peace" left his lips, a shot rang out, and the mayor of Atown clutched his stomach, bent over, and fell from the wall.

And so began the long, bloody war between Ztown and Atown.

The end.


23 posted on 04/09/2002 1:42:42 PM PDT by Risky Schemer
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To: Risky Schemer
Wow. You're weird.
24 posted on 04/09/2002 2:14:32 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma
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To: homeschool mama;rintense;Howlin;Miss Marple;ohioWfan
Wanna have some fun?
25 posted on 04/09/2002 2:16:29 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma
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To: Risky Schemer
Your argument is that women are going to act irresponsibly and then murder the baby, so to keep them from ever having to be responsible, we just should make it legal.

You continually accuse Christians of "forcing" their principles on you while at the same time you shove your twisted, sick, self-serving beliefs down our throats! You are Satan's spawn to misuse tiny portions of the Bible to support the murder of the most helpless. Jewish law prohibits abortion, you fool.

28 posted on 04/09/2002 2:29:19 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Risky Schemer
So, from the moral of your little "children's story" your answer to "Abortion is Murder!" is "Anti-abortion is Murder!"

Amazing. Simply freaking amazing.

30 posted on 04/09/2002 2:43:00 PM PDT by Harrison Bergeron
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To: Risky Schemer
One obvious problem with your story as a metaphor for America is that in real life it is A town which is trying to coerce Z town into adopting it's values. Pro Abortionists are not satisfied unless every state, every city and town and every country shares their values and has abortion clinics. They also want all the med schools to teach abortion.

In addition they are a bunch of cynical hypocrites because they say that their reason for being pro abortion is to ensure that a trained doctor performs the abortion, yet then they want abortion pills sold as over the counter drugs without a prescription or handed out by the school nurse. Both of these things are now legal in Britain.

79 posted on 04/10/2002 9:00:26 PM PDT by ganesha
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