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sarai

02/22/03 10:44 PM

#6640 RE: mlsoft #6628

Will the wonders ever cease!!..

Hopefully....medical competence of the "back alley" would be much improved.

Am I reading the above correctly??...

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mainehiker

02/22/03 10:46 PM

#6642 RE: mlsoft #6628

mlsoft..huh ....medical competance in back alley..it reads like you want back alley abortions to be better handled medically, are you changing your views?
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Zeev Hed

02/23/03 12:04 PM

#6692 RE: mlsoft #6628

Here I disagree with you quite a lot, mlsoft. The moral answer should involve recognition of what are the consequences of federally outlawing abortions. Are we to accept religious vigilantees acting as judge, jury and executioners? Will the consequences of outlawing abortion simply create a state where those capable of shouldering the financial "burden" of abortion avail themselves to safe abortions while those less fortunate, lose the ability of having children in the future, or worse, lose their lives?

Even very religious people must accept the fact that many people, including religious people are infractions on biblical or other religious law. Why select abortion and homosexuality as the one most requiring federal intervention. If one accepts (and some do) the tenet, that life begins with the first independent breath, as Genesis dictates, than abortion is no worse than masturbation (both infractions on the dictum of "though shall multiply") and homosexuality is no worse than "cooking a kid in his mother's milk (both "abominations" before God, because pagans were practicing same as part of pagan rituals). Are we going to send the police to check who masturbated the night before or who had meat with milk?

Literal reading and enforcement of the bible may require such, do we really want such a federal intervention in our lives?

Zeev