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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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To: ganesha
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.

Yep. Some on both sides trying to impose their beliefs -- by force -- on the other.

You remember Prohibition, don't you? Using thin Bible justification and "science," the temperance movement succeeded in, for a time, telling everyone they would not drink alcoholic beverages. It wasn't about morality, it wasn't about "caring," it wasn't about religious duty -- it was about the glory and satisfaction of the power of telling everyone else what to do, by force.

And it's the same today. Often an issue with two combatant sides, at loggerheads over which will get to hold the power and tell everyone else what to do. And make them do it at the point of a gun.

Repealing Roe v Wade and returning the choice to the states would be the obvious solution. However, in the real world, there's little "live and let live." Anti-abortion activists could not stand it if a single state did not outlaw abortion according to their will, and using "abortion is murder" as justification, would mobilize to pressure every state into outlawing it.

And whatever the motive of the pro-abortionists (a woman's body is her own, women will be forced into back alley clinics, etc.), I'm sure the ones like you describe would work to have every state legalize abortion.

I say the government should return it to the states, then make sure everyone abides by the policy of live and let live. If that's even possible.

83 posted on 04/10/2002 10:23:42 PM PDT by Risky Schemer
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