From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
Subject: Re: Responsibility (WAS Abortion, Caves, Galen, etc)
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:14:54 GMT

In <9301267894@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca> root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser) writes:

>pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
>> In article <1993Jan25.143139.21172@cdf.toronto.edu> g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
>> >In article <1993Jan25.030628.21585@julian.uwo.ca> larocqu@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (JOHN LAROCQUE) writes:
>> >>2. Go through with it and dump the baby at the door of some "anti-choice"
>> >>activist or an impotent family who would kill for a baby.
>> >
>> >You are neglecting the impact on the woman's life of having to go through
>> >an entire unwanted pregnancy.
>> 
>>   Oh, boo-hoo.  Better to go through with what many would consider murder?
>>   Unless the woman was raped, she is partially responsible for being pregnant.
>> Eventually, you have to accept responsibility for your own actions.
>> 
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>I'm a 42 year old, white, employed male. Somebody informed me the other
>day that I am now the establishment. Frankly, I wouldn't have known had
>it not been pointed out to me. I'm no longer, as I have believed, the
>disenfranchised. If there is a responsibility that I think ought to be
>shouldered, I have to stand up here and do it rather than carping about
>the "system". I am the system.

>The building of a highway is an acceptance of responsibility. There is
>no shirking of responsibility in working together for some common goal.
>I am willing to work together with the woman who wants an abortion.

>I am willing to help out with the responsilbilites as a tax payer by
>asking that my tax dollars be spent on abortions where unwanted pregnancy
>has not been prevented. And by asking that no one who seeks an abortion
>finds the process made more painful by state imposed obstacles. And
>by asking that the woman be allowed to make the decision that she will
>have to live with, rather than having those decisions imposed upon her.

>This is my will not just because there are too many of us, but because
>I can't stomach the idea of sentencing some woman to a course of child
>bearing or child rearing for the "crime" of having sex.

>I've seen women starving themselves, implanting themselves with deadly
>silicon tits and inflated lips.. all sort of self destruction and self 
>distortion in what appears to be an attempt to attract men. In this
>context, having risky sex may be a mistake, sometimes even an insanity, 
>but not a crime. I'm not willing to punish people who appear to me to be
>ensnared in this cultural tsunami that inter-gender relations have become.

>If I truly saw abortion as murder.. the taking of life, rather than
>the prevention of life, I must admit, my thinking might be different.

I'm glad you agree that this is a crucial question.

>In fact, I see the blocking of abortion as the depriving of a woman of
>her freedom.

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