From: patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Walking down to the student center last night
Summary: This guy makes DJR look almost...normal.
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:34:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Patrick, Dale Ann, and the cats.

In article <1992Oct12.201031.16338@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>In article <BvzquD.LCF@rice.edu> patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct12.033035.8768@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>>>In article <BvwtIt.1JI@rice.edu> patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Oct10.051024.29239@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>>>>>In article <BvrJI4.Is1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> greens@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Shawn Green) writes:
>>>>>>Here's my blow-hard, simplistic, brutish (and therefore aptly suited to the
>>>>>>alt.rush-limbaugh group) opinion on the abortion issue:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The right of the woman to choose what to do with her body supercedes any rights
>>>>>>the unborn parasite has to her body.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>There.  I have spoken.  This issue will never be resolved by consensus.  If
>>>>>>people want to resolve it by majority-rule vote, that's fine.  I believe
>>>>>>most of America is pro-choice.  My only regret is that as a male, I will
>>>>>>most likely never have the opportunity to squash an Operation Rescue person
>>>>>>trying to block my entry to an abortion clinic.
>>>>>
>>>>>Especially if the Operation Rescue people carried the appropriate hardware.
>>>>>Try to squash someone who is armed...
>>>>>
>>>>>As the people depicted in my planned novel will be.   In my version of the
>>>>>future, there's a scene where there are pro-choicers at an abortion clinic,
>>>>>and the pro-lifers show u, and proceed to use truncheons.  The police
>>>>>then show, and instead of arresting the pro-lifers, they join in with them
>>>>>against the pro-choice people.  But then the PC crowd would have a fit....
>>>>
>>>>Uh, Simon...before you go off to write your masterpiece, you might be
>>>>interested to know -- it's already been written by Margaret Atwood.  Have
>>>>you ever heard of "A Handmaid's Tale"?  :-)
>>>>
>>>I enjoyed the story, although I didn't like the slam against religion.
>>>In the story I'm planning, things would be depicted much more openly.
>>>Atwood's story dealt mostly with government control of reproductive rights.
>>>What I am planning is more a more across the board depiction.  Basically,
>>>I am planning a story in set in the future in which the people are so fed up
>>>with liberalism that they elect a leader who pledges to erradicate liberalism
>>>and its supporters. I can make Atwoods story look like a Sunday picnic.
>>
>>Be sure and let us know all about it, then -- I'm sure people will want to
>>know who to avoid...:-)
>>
>You're worried about meeting a science fiction author in person??
>Orwell (Eric Blair) worte 1984 and no one was afraid of him.

Of course, no one really knew about him until after he'd died, either...but
then again, he wasn't writing long diatribes fantasizing about actually
achieving a world he'd written about.  You're the one dreaming of this
veritable dystopia and who's actually said you think it would be good for
us.  Now do you get it?

--PLH (unfortunately for Simon, people are a lot smarter than he gives them
credit for...)


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