From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: how i become pro-life
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:50:06 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.


Another gutless anonymous posting...

an3329@anon.penet.fi writes:

>For a long time I was pro-choice because I thought pro-life people were
>crazy religious nuts.
Not all, but some notable examples : Operation Rescue, Missionaries to the
Pre-born

>I thought they were trying to impose their religious beliefs on the rest of 
>the nation. 
Which, of course, they are....

>I was scared they might try to get other things outlawed and this nation 
>would become a religious nation. 
Listen to Pat Robertson, or worse, Randall Terry....I mean it.  Really
listen.

>I didn't want religious nuts taking over this great nation of ours. 
They are bent on doing it, though.

>I saw it as a culture war and I didn't want their culture pushed on me 
>because I thought it was hateful culture. They hated gays and atheists and 
>women and I wanted no part of a hate-filled culture like theirs.
Good thing...

>Then I began to think about my abortion beliefs. I didn't have any! I just
>despised the culture of the pro-life people. They were the enemy to me. I
>didn't even try to think that abortion might be killing babies because I
>despised the pro-life culture so much. I began reading books and articles
>on abortion and I became convinced that abortion is killing babies. Democrats
>have always been the ones who have helped the sick, the weak, the helpless.
Democrats have also been in the forefront of the fight for personal,
individual liberty, and the right to control one's own body.

>It saddens me to see that many of my friends don't share that belief when
>it comes to abortion.
Not all of my friends agree with my political views...so what?  That just
means we're different...

>I see many pro-choice people saying hateful stuff at pro-life people here
>and I think maybe they should think about why they're saying that stuff.
Hateful???  The pro-life crowd are the ones tossing around the accusations
of murder, etc.

>I think many of them were like me and they just despise pro-life culture and
>they haven't really thought about their abortion beliefs. It's easy to say
>lots of nasty stuff at pro-life people because much of the public despises
>them and makes fun of them. But abortion is not funny.
I don't laugh. I am anti-abortion, but pro-choice.  One can be opposed to
abrtion yet understand the need for it to be availble.  I have thought a
lot about it.  I was pro-choice and not opposed to abortion, then I was
totally pro-life, now I am anti-abortion and pro-choice.  To me, that seems
a proper position...

>I also see bad stuff from some pro-life people and I wish they would be more
>loving and compassionate towards pregnant women. Don't just tell women not to
>have abortions, help them and love them! We can't prevent every abortion but
>we must show our love and respect towards women and babies no matter what.
>Many of you will never know what it's like to face an unwanted pregnancy. It's
>wrong to judge women for getting abortions. They need our love not our hate.
Well, then go talk to Operation Rescue and/or Missionaries to the Pre-born.
They seem to have missed this message...

One can be religious, even fundamentalist (which simply implies a
fundamental reading of the Bible and personal application of the same)
without imposing ones view on the rest of society.

Post using your real name and account next time, eh?

 -Steve
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