wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard) (09/25/85)
<the aids virus> Come on, line eater! Note: This is STella Calvert, a guest on ...decvax!frog!wjr. In article <2131@burdvax.UUCP> bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) writes: > >Whenever you deny rights to one segment of the population for the benefit >of another you hurt all of humanity. Life is an inalienable right; access >to an abortion is not. But I cannot protect my right (inalienable or not) to life. A van almost drove through my computer room today. Noone hurt, except the cat that stubbed his nose hiding under the bed when the van hit the tree. But there would have been nothing I could have done to protect my inalienable right to life if that van had come calling. However, a woman's right to abortion is much harder to ignore. Whatever the law, I can always abort. If some of the people on the net had their way, I'd have to buy a pressure cooker, fold a coathanger into a speculum, sharpen and polish a crochet hook into a curette, sterilize these tools, and do it myself. But never forget, please. Talk of rights is useless without the power to defend them. And arguments about abortion based on "rights" or "morals" will only convince people who already agree with the speaker. Provide information -- (e.g., six month fetuses have survived to adulthood with apparently normal development; if you abort yourself at home, sterilize the tools, take prophylactic antibiotics, try to find a doctor who will check you afterwards, and write the emergency number on your arm before you start so if you panic you have the information handy), share opinions, but try to avoid preaching, because it doesn't work. And I could probably bore the anti-choice folks with my arguments from "morals" as easily as they have bored those who don't share their assumptions. Let's try to stick to debate strategies that work. It's more fun that way. STella Calvert (guest on ...!decvax!frog!wjr) Every man and every woman is a star. Note to Matt Rosenblatt re "outwheigh/outway": I didn't want to post this as a spelling flame, but I can't resist milking your topic just a bit. Hope that doesn't "outwhey" any serious points I'm making. Any more spellings? No fair posting them as separate articles though.