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To: shrinkermd
But...if you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Don't know why that popped into my head...

22 posted on 08/13/2007 6:28:27 AM PDT by gogeo (Democrats want to support the troops without actually being helpful to them.)
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To: gogeo

“Trust me with a choice” is specious because nobody -— not the Church, not the State, not the male, and not the female -— nobody can choose the deliberate killing of the young of our species as a legitimate “choice.”

If a woman has a baby she cannot bond to, will not raise and does not want, that’s what adoption is for.


29 posted on 08/13/2007 6:45:34 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: gogeo; Mrs. Don-o
Don't know why that popped into my head ...

Perhaps because, under the influence of the relentless propaganda machine, you've forgotten that "choose" is a transitive verb. The act of "choosing" cannot, cannot, be separated from the object that is chosen.

Excepting the extremely rare preteen-victim-of-incestuous-rape situations, a woman who is pregnant with a child she doesn't want has already chosen to have sex under circumstances in which she could conceive a child she's not willing or competent to rear. That is, she has demonstrated that she does not have the discernment to make wise decisions regarding the life of another person.

As you mention, gogeo, she probably shouldn't be in the position of rearing a child, without a considerable development of maturity and judgment. Adoption would be a much better solution for many children born under these circumstances.

35 posted on 08/13/2007 6:59:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick (All the main characters die, and then the Prince of Norway delivers the Epilogue.)
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To: gogeo
But...if you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Sooo... Does it make sense to trust someone with a child that things murdering it is a viable choice if it is not convenient to have it? It is not a matter of 'trusting' someone with a choice'. Not allowing someone to murder an adult is not a lack of trust. Trust has nothing to do with it. If anything insisting someone have a child is the ultimate act of trusting them more than they trust themselves.
52 posted on 08/13/2007 12:05:00 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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