From: sean@Unify.com (Sean P. Curley)
Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity
Subject: Abortion in historical comparison
Keywords: abortion, slavery, history, atrocity
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:41:16 GMT
Followup-To: alt.abortion.inequity
Organization: Unify Corporation (Sacramento)

The following is the basis for an article that I am considering publishing. 
I would appreciate your opinions of it.  This is a _first draft_, so don't
flame the English (I have already seen a couple sentences I want to
change).

It is deisnged to draw in the reader without mentioning abortion (since 
pro-abortionists are often turned away by the mere mention of anything
negative about abortion), and then to relate abortion to some atrocities
of the past.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The human race throughout history has deceived itself into atrocities by
accepting an obviously wrong assumption and centering on the benefits of
the situation given the assumption.  Examples of this are abundant.  They
include Hitler's control of the people during the World War II era and the
varying uses of slavery throughout history.

Expanding on this thought, we see today how wrong slavery is and we look
back on the slavery in the United States with distaste.  The assumption
back then was that blacks were not human and there fore could be counted
as property and any treatment of ones own property was legal.  It is some-
times difficult to understand or even believe that so many people could
agree to the statement that `blacks are not human'.  This is an absurdity
in my mind, but nevertheless, it happened.  People centered on the benefits
of having intelligent, hard working slaves and ignored the wrongness of the
assumption and the immorality of the situation if the assumption was false.
People in general must like them<SR> selves and it is quite simple for the
mind to hide immorality behind the guise of a bad assumption when it can not
face the wrongness.

People today think they are much better about this type of situation.  We
believe, at least here in the United States, that all people are created
equal, regardless of race, color and religion.  We are working to protect
animals rights and the environment and are generally more conscience of
mistreatment.  We even tend to think we are more honest with ourselves and
each other than those in history.

I think the only difference between those in history and us is that we have
the hindsight to see the wrongness and the bad assumption they made.

Take abortion, a major issue in our society today.  The assumption that allows
us to eliminate millions of unborn fetuses is that they are not human (sound
familiar).  We even have a different name for them (fetuses as apposed to
unborn babies).  There have been instances of babies being aborted and 
surviving to become healthy productive adults.  I know of babies born during
the fourth month of pregnancy that have survived with no side effects.  How
can we not call these unborn babies human?  We can do it because it is too
difficult to think of the alternative - that we are murdering unborn children
(humans) for no other reason than "it is inconvenient".  There are a lot of
people in this world that are inconvenient, but we are not murdering them.

In my mind this is as bad an assumption as saying "blacks are not human" or
"Jews are an inferior race".  I fully expect that 50 to 100 years from now
people will look at this period with as much disdain as we look at past times.
They will have a difficult time understanding how we could allow ourselves to
kill such helpless human beings.   They will look at people that say "we have
the right to decide" and ask "How can you have the right to decide to murder 
someone?".

We need to face up to this situation, recognize that we have been perpetrating
an atrocious crime against humanity and solve the problem.  Recognizing the
problem is the first step in any solution.  We must stop hiding from the
obvious, accept that we made a bad assumption. and stop killing the unborn
children by the millions.


-- 
=========================================================================
Sean P. Curley						Unify Corporation
Engineering Manager					Sacramento, CA.
=========================================================================
Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity