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From: mn@dscvax2.UUCP (Matt Noah)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Aborted Babies as Criminals
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 20:43:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 20:43:14 1985
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>Do we lock-up the criminals that unwanted, uncontrolled,
>unraised children become?  Do we wait 18-20 years and kill them in the
>gas chamber then?

Misconception or generalization.  I don't believe unwanted --> uncontrolled
--> unraised correlates at all.  The writer seems to infer that the 18
million or so aborted babies since 1973 would have grown into criminals
whose acts would have lead them to the gas chamber.  Is this rationality?

>IF your beliefs impel you to attempt to control actions of others, then
>you are equally responsible to consider ALL the actions dependent on your
>pivotal point (and I certainly haven't the imagination to list them all).
>"No abortion" treats a symptom, and treats it ineffectively. What to do?

Then the pro-choice people are responsible for all the effects created by
the legalization of abortion.  Swiss cheese argument, sorry.  Abortion is
easily recognized as both problem and symptom as most netters would agree
if they gave it two seconds thought.  I agree that it treats a PROBLEM
ineffectively.

>What is your "best possible world" scenario?  Maybe we can bypass all the
>rhetoric.  I personally don't know anybody who thinks abortion is a game,
>to be undertaken on a lark, "hey, everybody ought to go through it once."
>The camps seem to be divided between those who consider an unwanted
>pregancy a personal issue (I do) and those who consider it a social
>issue, open to the discussion and control of society at large.

I believe most people see it as both a personal issue and a social issue.
Pro-choicers and Pro-lifers see the woman's perspective and can relate.
The camps divide because pro-lifers see the infant's overriding rights
when it comes right down to it.

Matt