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From: devonst@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,soc.women,talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Feminism and Abortion
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 09:41:28 EDT
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rap@olivej.UUCP (Robert A. Pease) writes:
>In article <311@isieng.UUCP> kiki@isieng.UUCP (Kiki Herbst) writes:
>>As we develop our life with God as the center, we begin
>>to approach life in a different way: The way God approaches life.  Now imagine
>>the ideal situation where everybody reacted to life in this way, wanted the
>>best for others.  If everybody lived their lives in that way, I think we'd
>>have a pretty good idea of what heaven is like.
>>
>>Kiki
>
>The intention is a nice one, but  the  idea  frightens  me.  My  first
>question,  of course, is who is going to decide whats best for me?  If
>I am to decide, then you need to know of my decision and abide by  it.
>If  you  are  to  decide, then I am to be bound by something that will
>very likely cause me great amounts of discomfort.
>

I guarantee that if you were the unfortunate individual helped by the Good
Samaritan you wouldn't question whether his helping you was in your best
interest.

>Be careful with this  idea.  It  can  be  easily  used  to  justify  a
>lifestyle  akin to that depicted in "1984".  I think what has a better
>outcome is to live and let live.  Its like I tell my kids, "Don't  you
>worry  what  she's  doing,  you take care of yourself and let her take
>care of herself."
>-- 
>					Robert A. Pease

I hope you never run into trouble and the only people who come by have the
same attitude as you.   As a matter of fact, I hope *I* never run into trouble 
and the only people who come by have the same attitude as you.

--
Tom Albrecht