Posted on 09/17/2004 9:34:31 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
They simply don't understand the connection: "getting rid" of the "inconvenient" in one's own self interest. It isn't so "inconvenient" when you're the one being gotten rid of.
Where did you get that statistic? It sounds like a "fear-factor" statistic from the pro-abortion side of the debate to me.
Among other things, Norma also states, I remember seeing all these young women in the waiting room and thinking, They have a right to know what's going to happen to their bodies. Abortion is a serious procedure. If the doctor goes within a quarter of an inch of the uterus, he could puncture it and a woman might bleed to death" (p.56). In that book, she also gives examples of the ways she was "used" by the pro-choice advocates and the ways they "used" the politics of the system to achieve their goals. (They knew their illegal tactics against their own clinic would be blamed on the pro-lifers.)
"Won By Love" is a great book and tells the rest of the story. I recommend it in preference to anything from CNN!
actually, the court was not "pure evil". Several of the justices spoke eloquently and passionately against Roe, and White, in his dissent, called it an act of "raw judicial power."
Furether, the pro-abort justices were not monsters. Harry Blackmun had a daughter who got pregnant, dropped out, had the kid, and then the marriage fell apart. There was trememdous pressure from within his family on this issue.
I am not making allowances for the man. He has gone to meet his Creator and he (as I) will have to give an answer for the deeds committed in this life. It is just to say that the evil that spills innocent blood by the millions doesn't come from men in a vacuum. They are creatures who are made in God's image who have allowed that initial deformity of the image passed down from Adam to warp and twist to the point that the unspeakable becomes the speakable, then doable, then done. I guess I am just saying that Blackmun Marshall, etc etc are PART of the tragedy of Roe, and not just the cause.
Or maybe another way to say it is that I can understand a bit why it says "Jesus wept." It makes me long for a day when evil is vanquished.
Where did you get that statistic? It sounds like a "fear-factor" statistic from the pro-abortion side of the debate to me.
No disrespect taken. For the last two days, I've been trying to find the original article (or any article, for that matter) supporting the situation I was describing. I can't find it. I know that I read it here on FR about three years ago and I remember the other posters were as horrified as I by the tragic conditions of such a pregnancy. The size of the baby's head was truly horrifying.
As I'm unable to cite my source, I'll concede the point for now. I'll not argue for such an exception to PBA again until I have the reference in hand. If it *does* turn out to be liberal garbage, I WILL be relieved. If there doesn't exist a situation where PBA would be the preferred solution, this world would certainly be a saner place.
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