Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!gatech!gitpyr!myke From: myke@gitpyr.UUCP (Myke Reynolds) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: I was a teenaged pregancy Message-ID: <740@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 01:32:55 EDT Article-I.D.: gitpyr.740 Posted: Sat Sep 7 01:32:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Sep-85 04:19:46 EDT References: <711@gitpyr.UUCP>, <390@scirtp.UUCP> <5839@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 33 Summary: You missed the point... In article <5839@cbscc.UUCP>, pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) writes: > Deciding that one's own life wasn't worth saving is one thing. . . You are konphused, sir, my life is well worth living, but my reply to the taunt of "ask any kid how he would feel about having been aborted" is, "how could I care?" I would never have existed. Thats like asking me how I would feel if my parents had had half their wits and used contraceptives. > . . .example, the lives of others born under similar circumstances > aren't worth saving either comes pretty close to playing God. I didn't say they should have been aborted, I said you have no right tell anyone they MUST have a child. I have seen first hand how having a child and a family when one isn't ready for it, emotionally, or financially, can destroy two very promising lives. Were you ready to raise a family when you were in highschool? When an abortion is possible, there is no entity, if there were, this would be a clear moral issue. There is only the potential of a sentient being. You are trying to use your morality to draw a line of demarcation. Where will that line be when a human life can be created from a skin cell underneath your toenail? You argue from the standpoint of morality and religion where the issue is lost in mirky vagueness.. There is no universal morality, and certainly no universal religion.. (I can see the ethnocentric eyebrows raised at that one.) I argue from the point of social good. The issue is clear there, and it would appear that the people who run this country know it. -- Myke Reynolds Office of Telecommunications and Networking Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!myke