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To: Pitiricus
Have you told your surviving child that you ALLOWED him to live? But you didn't feel like allowing his brother to live, so you killed him? Have you told him that at any moment you could change your mind and murder him too? I mean, if it's inconvenient for you to have him around anymore?
What will he say when you tell him? You will tell him won't you? I mean, it's OK to kill them if you feel like it, so you won't have any problem telling him will you?
170 posted on 11/29/2004 8:42:55 PM PST by Protagoras (People who have abortions are murderers)
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To: Protagoras
You seem to feel that you have superior knowledge regarding life and death decisions. Please tell me how you would judge the decision of a young Lieutenant who had to choose which of his critically wounded men he would put in the last spot on the only available medevac helicopter - which man would he give a chance to live and which men would he condemn to almost certain death.

I'll save you some time. Unless you have actually been in that situation, you have no business judging that Lieutenant's life and death decision.

Likewise, unless you have become pregnant in a situation where your life would be threatened by giving birth, you have no business judging that extremely difficult and personal decision. Just as in the example above, a very hard value judgment has to be made by the appropriate person and you are not that person.

Your condemnation of abortion decisions seems to be absolute with no exceptions. You seem to think you are more qualified to make decisions about other people's lives than they are. You may be correct about most abortions but you are incorrect about your authority to judge and make those decisions for other people. If you want to help people make the correct decision, you don't take away their freedom and responsibility to make that decision. You try to give them loving advice not superior condemnation.

172 posted on 11/30/2004 3:12:28 PM PST by Semper
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