From: StarOwl@uiuc.edu (StarOwl)
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Subject: Re: Walking down to the student center last night
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Date: 27 Sep 92 17:06:39 GMT
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sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
: 
: I think instead of "pro-choice" or pro-abortion" we should use a term
: that is more accurate.  The term "pro-infanticide", or more simply,
: "Pro-Murder" is the correct term that should be used, since after all,
: abortion is the outright killing of children.

Hold on there friend....

Pro-choice IS NOT SYNONYMOUS with "pro-abortion."  I am one of many 
pro-choice, anti-abortion people out there.

Pro-choice people maintain that the government should not have a say
in whether or not a woman should carry a pregnancy to term.  The 
legality and morality of abortion is certainly a question of morality,
one which does not have an answer which the American people can agree
upon (as demonstrated by the amount of controversy in the US on the
subject).

I (speaking as a subset of the pro-choice population) maintain that
the U.S. government does NOT have the authority to legislate the
(il)legality of abortion for this reasons

	It is a moral question.  The federal government's legislating
	any one answer would be the imposition of one group's morals
	on a significant portion of the population which may not necessarily
	agree with those morals.  Except within certain minimum limits,
	the State does not (or should not) have the authority to legislate
	morality.

	(Partially plagarized from the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee's
	official position on abortion, issued 1987)

My personal belief is that abortion is a form of murder in most instances.
Abortion should not be a form of birth control, and expectant mothers
should carry their unborn children full term, unless doing so would cause
significant risk to the mother's mental or physical health, or if the
unborn child will be incapable of leading a "near-normal" life due
to a major defect.  In this way, I am "anti-abortion."

However, I recognize that this is my personal view; while others may
agree with me, many more people might not.  I am not [insert the name
of your preferred deity here], so I have no right to claim the 
authority to dictate morals for other people.  Similarly, the
government is not [insert the name of your preferred deity here],
and therefore has no authority to dictate more than a minimum set of
morals for its citizenry.  In this way I am "pro-choice."

So get this through your thick head: pro-choice people are not necessarily
pro-abortion.  There are many other people who hold similar views as I do
in this respect.

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