From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: tx.politics,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion (was Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 07:50:19 GMT
 <hZ7Dr*7X0@caleb.UUCP> <1992Sep7.051110.2316@cactus.org>
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <1992Sep7.051110.2316@cactus.org>, Henry Velick writes:


I shouldn't bother to answer this stupid posting, but...

> I knew I had these around somewhere. It just took me a while to find
> them. I do hope they're not too late for all the fun...
> "I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your
> marriage as often as you like -- and if you have babies, you have babies."
>                                          Randall Terry
>                                          Executive Director
>                                          Operation Rescue
> 
> "We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also
> opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD,
> and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception
> of natural family planning."
>                                          Judie Brown
>                                          President
>                                          American Life League
> 
> "Sex education in our schools is promoting incest."
>                                          Rev. Jimmy Swaggart
> 
> "Resist, expose, or stop immediately every public school or group sex
> education program, no matter what it is called, or how it is diffused
> into the curriculum."
>                                          Fr. Paul Marx
>                                          President
>                                          Human Life International
> 

[ cut and moved below...]

> "Meanwhile, let it be clear what we do: we fight contraception,
> sterilization, abortion on six continents..."
>                                          Fr. Paul Marx
>                                          President
>                                          Human Life International

Ok, so you have 4 quotes against birth control (and a weird one from the fallen
Rev. Swaggart.)  I suppose that you claim that is what all anti-abortion people
think?


> And now for my favorite...
> 
> "For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say
> just watch me."
>                                          Joseph Scheidler
>                                          Executive Director
>                                          Pro-Life Action League

Ah, what you fear the most, morality!

[ moved from above]

> "I don't think we should punish the criminal [a rapist] by killing
> his child."
>                                          Dr. John Willke
>                                          President
>                                          National Right to Life Committee

Poorly worded, but the sentiment is reasonable.  He should have said something
like "Why kill the child because of his father's crime?"

> They've spoken pretty clearly, wouldn't you say, Jim?

So what?  As far as I know, the Constitution still allows people to be against
birth control.  They are definitely in the minority, though.


                                                Jim Pritchett


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