lew (09/28/82)
Regarding John Hevelin's net.space article,"On Rats and Sinking Ships" It just slays me that aborition-on-demand is packaged along with save-the-whales, save-the-baby-seals, and so on as part of liberalism. I won't reiterate the various right-to-life arguments here, since most people have probably heard them, but to me, they (the arguments) make a lot of sense. The only place I depart from them is at the conclusion. I don't accept the idea of an ultimate moral authority. If we want to have slaves or kill our offspring or whatever we can talk ourselves into believing is OK, that's our prerogative. I'm just amazed that liberals are so adroit in denying the essential nature of abortion. I'm reminded of Chief Dan George's line in Little Big Man: "The Indian believes that everything is alive ... the White Man doesn't believe that anything is alive - not even himself." Lew Mammel, Jr. - BTL Indian Hill