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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: inconsistencies
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 14:46:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 14:46:10 1985
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>Ken has made an important point, which many people on both sides overlook:
>
>        If you believe abortion is murder,
>        then it is INCONSISTENT to condemn
>        the people who are bombing abortion clinics.
>

Not really.  It is INCONSISTENT to condemn people who believe abortion is
murder from acting within the LAW on their beliefs (a point that I don't
feel anyone has overlooked), but it is not inconsistant to expect everyone,
on each side of the issue or in the middle, to act within the laws of our
country.

When abortion was illegal, each woman who had an abortion was a criminal--
she didn't get off because her personal beliefs made abortion o.k.  The
laws are made, supposedly, on the basis of majority opinion.  When
everybody else thinks something is o.k., you are certainly entitled to
think it isn't o.k., and not do it yourself, but you aren't entitled to
break other laws to demonstrate your belief.