rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dr. Emmanuel Wu) (03/27/85)
> I can't stand it any more! Mikki Barry says that the issue > of convenience is irrelevant to the the abortion discussion. > That is just a lot of hogwash. Convenience is the heart > and soul of the abortion issue. If it weren't for the > self-centered, egotistical attitudes which prevail amoung > our most vocal pro-choice people, the abortion rate would > drop by 90%. All I hear is "What's in it for me?" The > statistics have shown (don't ask, they have been printed > in dozens of previous articles) that the overwhelming > reason for abortions today are for convenience, not for > reasons of rape, incest, malformation, or danger to the > mother. The use of abortion as just another convenient > birth control method is what the furor is all about. [T. C. WHEELER] Gee, you're right! All these self-centered people doing things out of "convenience" just makes me sick, being a hard working, sacrificing, god-fearing individual who strives and struggles through life never concerned with pithy things like "convenience". Furthermore, why should those people be allowed any other trivial conveniences, like freedom of speech and freedom of religion. After all, aren't these people just using these freedoms as an excuse for not doing/saying/believing the tougher, less convenient line? The hell with these freedoms, I'm with Don Black, who needs them!! These people are just using their freedoms for the sake of convenience, and thus avoiding the tough choices that people like us make in our lives. Their selfish use of "freedom" is what's bringing this country down. Perhaps, if they did the right thing (as we see it), and not the convenient thing... And so on. And so on. The phrase "truckload of excrement" may apply well to the above paragraph. All human rights exist for the "convenience" (read "freedom of choice") of all individuals. It is only when those "conveniences" have negative impact on the lives of other people that they should be questioned. (Of course, we've seen some people who feel that other people engaging in freedom of choice is harmful to THEIR lives...) So, you're right back to the issue "Is it human?" again, which is always the fundamental issue in the abortion arena. Perhaps it's because we know that it's a tough one to call ("It's not human yet, but it will be, if we choose to let it continue developing in there, but it's her body, so...") that leads us down these peripheral paths ("they do it just for convenience, thus they shouldn't, because I don't like people doing things just for convenience") that really don't have much to do with the issue. -- "When you believe in things that you don't understand, you'll suffer. Superstition ain't the way." Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr