From: zaz@jersey (Todd Koeckeritz)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Abortion rights and responsibilities
Keywords: abortion responsibility
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:54:34 GMT
Organization: wARE, Inc.

In article <5309@news.duke.edu> eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK) writes:
>Just a thought (it's after midnight for this post). Usually when one is
>accorded rights, one is also accorded responsibilities with which one
>should use these rights. For example, no slander/libel when invoking
>"free speech," or shooting innocents when owning a gun, and so on. As
>the signs from pro-choicers/pro-abortionists say "Abortion rights NOW!"
>I am wondering what responsibilities are accorded to this
>constitutionally protected (according to the Supreme Court) right.
>

You know that reminds me of a company for which I used to work.  The company
provided a store and forward mail and file tranfer service.  Kindof the
computer extreme of Federal Express.  Now if you really think about it there is
really no reason why american business should have to get anything anywhere
overnight as in the case of Federal Express, or in a few minutes as in the
case of the service provided by my previous employer.

What has happened is that business and people in general have gotten used to
putting things off to the last minute, not planning far enough ahead and
desiring immediate satisfaction to the extent that now Federal Express and
other forms of expedient delivery are a normal part of doing business.
(Obviously this argument doesn't take into account several important benefits
companies like Federal Express provide such as an extremely good reliable
service, no flames on this part please, :-)).

Forgetting about my philisophical stance on abortion and the moral implications
that result from my positions, I look at abortion in this practical light.
There is as much of a need for abortion in non-life threatening cases as there
is for Federal Express in day to day business.  Abortion on demand provides an
opportunity for individuals who will not assume the responsibility of there
sexual activities.

This obviously has more application to those who are not implementing some form
of birth control.  But we are all intelligent people and we should know that
even if we are using birth control during our various sexual escapades that we 
still run the risks in all cases of creating another life.  The creation of that
life is a direct result of our actions and our responsibility to deal with the
repurcussions.

I believe that abortion is the Federal Express/fast food method of dealing with
a subset of a normal adult's responsibilities.  If we cannot deal with these
responsibilities in any other way than to make them go away, we really haven't
matured enough to be called adults. 

( Yes I always like to make inconsise comments like these on non-emotional
  topics such as abortion, lets get out the asbestos undies, flames on!
                                 ;-)
)

Todd
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