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From: owens@gatech.UUCP (Gerald R. Owens)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: ENFORCED birth control?  NEVER!
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Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 09:23:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 09:23:05 1984
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I agree that enforced birth control is a really bad idea, although
I really don't see why there is a problem.  Seeing how there are so
many materialists that want to preserve their lifestyles rather than
a human life, one simply makes the use of birth control cheaper than
getting an abortion, let the pro-life people rail about how bad it
is to get an abortion, and emphasize that it is uncool to be pregnant
when you're not ready to support the kid. Things will then take care
of themselves.

The problem I see, as a religious person, is that religious 
groups do not scale sins properly.  Yeah, adultry is bad, and murder is
bad, but seeing how God designed sex so well (a very suggestive proof
of God, but not conclusive :-), people are gonna fornicate no matter what,
and so for the time being, it would be best to emphasize the lesser of
two evils.  That is, IF they truly consider abortion to be murder.
In fact, a Christian youth counselor of considerable fame got lambasted
pretty bad because he said "Don't do it.  But if you do, USE protection!"
(By the way, he gave the opinion that it should be the girl to demand
  it, but the boy to provide it.  A slick trick.  If the guy REALLY
  cares, he'll do it, but that's just my opinion.  He apparently figured
  that guys could get access to some form of contraception better than
  the girls could.)

So, from one pro-lifer to the others of a religious persuasion, I ask
this:  Yes, fornication is bad, but so is murder.  Why not insist on
cheap birth control if it prevents pregnancies that might get aborted?
Sure, it would encourage bad morals, but which is worse, fornication or
murder??  (of course, if you're saying that abortion is murder in order
to discourage fornication, then there are better ways to stop it than
that!!)  In short, do you REALLY believe that abortion is murder?  Enough
to make reasonable moral judgments??

				Gerald Owens
				Owens@gatech