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To: tcg
Abortion on demand types often say “why don't pro-life people want to support the child after it is born, if they care so much?”

There's a lot wrong with that statement. But I often turn it on its head: how can a society that doesn't care about human beings at their earliest stages of development claim to truly care about them at any later stage of life?

I think everyone understands a situation where the mother's life is in danger and hard choices have to be made. But at the other end of the spectrum, the idea of “no one wants this child anyway, and it will have a bad life” could be applied to many other groups. We could empty out the prisons, mental hospitals, homeless shelters, retirement homes and other institutions pretty fast with that “logic.” Some would say it has happened already in other places and times, and that it is starting to happen here too. I find that “reasoning” grotesque, and sad.

12 posted on 01/22/2010 8:08:33 AM PST by cvq3842 (A fool and his liberty are soon parted.)
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To: cvq3842
Abortion on demand types often say “why don't pro-life people want to support the child after it is born, if they care so much?”

The libs no longer have an excuse. At least in one place.

http://www.graceinitiatives.org

21 posted on 01/23/2010 7:27:21 AM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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