From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Subject: Hypocrisy, Bloody Hypocrisy II
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 03:38:09 GMT



sorry about that.....this stupid network was about to cut me off


continuing......

Abortion is not birth control, but it is being used as such. Why are
1 out of 4 babies aborted??? What is it, a million a year??? Anyways...
the number if kinda high. Are that many people having condoms fail, etc??
I think not. I think that there is a bigger problem that people 
fail to recognize. (Imagine the controversy we could have debating this
"real problem") I think that abortion has become "accepted" to the
point of abuse, much in the manner that divorce. There are good
reasons for divorce, but too often people take the easy way out with
a quick divorce instead of working out their problems. The same is
true with abortion. I think that I was an "accident," if you will.
But I wasn't detrimental to my parents' livelihood. So they had me.
The point is that, as a medical procedure, abortion should be
used when the mother's life is in danger. I do believe that a fetus
is a human being, but I think that the mother's life is more 
important. So now we get to the point of when is a woman's life
in danger. Some pro-lifers will accept abortion for pregnancies
by rape and incest. I am FOR abortions in this sense, as with
medical complications that could harm the mother. But a woman's
life can also be endangered in other ways. If my girlfriend were to
get pregnant and has to have the child, her life and opportunities
would be ruined. So abortion is ok in other cases too.

The most difficult decision is drawing the line for these "other cases."

But this I will tell you: I am against the pro-choice movement
simply because of the abuse of abortion, i.e. convenience, etc. 
No teenage girl should have 5 abortions. You are ignorant of a   
severe problem with our society if you think that that is acceptable.

I find it very amusing that most of these people who are "pro-choice"
also support gun control. Might I bring something to your attention?
The Constitution guarantees our rights to both abortions and the
right to bear arms. Yet now, we have to have gun control because 
some people abuse this privilege. If we don't have control of
abortions, it will continue to be abused. Most "pro-choice"
supporters want no control. This is ludicrous. Man, or woman, 
(God I hate PC!!!!) has proven throughout history that they WILL
ALWAYS abuse their rights. Look at our judicial system for an 
excellent example. Look around you. Abuse is everywhere. Alcohol.
Drugs. TV. Divorce. We can't let abuse of abortion make things worse.
If we spent half the time that we use debating this stupid issue
trying to prevent all these "unwanted" pregnancies, then abortion
really wouldn't matter. But no, we have to argue about the quick fix.
Open your eyes people. Stop being so damn impassionned that you can't
see the whole picture. Pro-life.....you will ruin the lives
of countless people. Pro-choice....you will abuse a right to the 
point that the consequences will be worse than you could ever imagine.
The Greeks would leave babies on mountain sides to die. It lead
to their downfall. Everyone should realize that their actions
today effect the rest of time. Stop thinking about the present and
yourself all the time. Sure, keep that in proportion, but be a little
nobler. There is a branch of mathematics called complex dynamical
systems. Most of you know it by those beautiful pictures of fractals
with all the colors. Chaos theory tells us that a butterfly flying
in China will make the weather different in America. One person/fetus
can make the world a different place.

Funny thing is.....I'm going to piss off people on both sides.
Chances are they won't listen. That makes me think that this
problem will never go away. Hell, poverty has been here thousands
of years, and we still haven't licked it. So I don't have much faith in
us. 

If you think about it, life is just a bunch of fucking statistics.


Mathieu Lewis

for abortion with restrictions UNTIL we learn not to abuse it
    and we stop all these unwanted pregnancies
for gun control UNTIL we stop all these murders and senseless
   acts of violence
against all morons who protest in the heat of the moment

-- 
MaThiEu a. LeWis   "Achtung ya'll........it's good to be down in America
Thieves Like Us     for a while....and get to Texas.....I'll have a drink
mal11@po.cwru.edu   on Texas."  - U2  Dallas, Texas  April 5th, 1992 
                   I LIKE TO WATCH THINGS ON ZOO TV
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