From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush,alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: That Responsibility Thing, Take 2
Date: 11 Oct 92 19:59:20 GMT
Followup-To: talk.abortion
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Loomis) writes:
>by EMIL CHUCK@acpub.duke.edu 
:> Taken from an article by nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf):
:> ?mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
:> ?>jbrindle@halcyon.com (Jennifer Brindle) writes:
:> ?>>  Abortion can be a responsible solution to an unwanted pregnancy.
:> ?>>  Abortion can be a responsible solution to an unwanted pregnancy.
:> ?>>  Abortion can be a responsible solution to an unwanted pregnancy.
:> ?>
:> ?>Try this on for size.
:> ?>Euthanasia can be a responsible solution to an unwanted burdan.
:> ?>Euthanasia can be a responsible solution to an unwanted burdan.
:> ?>Euthanasia can be a responsible solution to an unwanted burdan.
:>  
:> How about replacing "responsible" with "convienient"?
:
:I am glad that the fetalidolators take such a strong stand against
:convience. I'm sure with their wholesome family values that never eat
:out or eat tv dinners, but always good home cooking.  I hope they are
:never corrupted by modern capitalism.

Wow! It took a darn long time for someone to respond to this!

[Setting: 24/25th century. USS Enterprise]
Oh brother. I do have a problem with the food replicators and will enjoy
cooking my own food every once in a while. That synth-ohol ruins my
pallate for good wine.

Back to the present,
after semesters of eating at campus cafeterias and restaurants and
microwave ovens, you do get an appreciation for eating a good
home-cooked meal.

The problem isn't capitalism anyway. And I appreciate the convieniences
of technology (spawned by capitalism). The problem is responsibility. What
are the arguments regarding euthanasia? Should people die without pain?
Well it is preferred that we all die in our sleep or something, but
should doctors actively assist in the deaths of the ill? Pulling the
plug and refusing to give food is not what Dr. Kevorkian is doing.

As for abortion, what are the arguments for abortion concerning? That it
is a woman's right to do whatever she chooses with her body, including
the termination of pregnancy. But then the arguments blur: the woman
should abort the child because she won't be able to take care of the
baby, or all her career plans will be destroyed, ... etc. These answers
seem a very convienient way to avoid the consequences of consentual sex,
that she or the baby would otherwise suffer so abortion is better. Why
don't these questions arise before she consents to have sex in the first
place? This pregnancy is shown to be so inconvienient for the future of
the expectant mother that the only way to get her life back on track is
aborting the pregnancy. Sex without consequences and avoiding the
consequences of one's actions is the problem. Everyone has the right to
do whatever good or bad to one's body as long as they accept the
consequences of their actions.

:Is Mr. Chuck Amish or a Shaker?
Since I can dance the lambada, I'm probably a Shaker. :)
-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck		eyc@acpub.duke.edu
Biomedical Engineer 1993	Never take me too seriously.
I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm 
good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
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