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To: Notary Sojac
You are correct. No matter how morally corrupt the idea of abortion is, most Americans wish to retain that option if it is in their interest.
11 posted on 11/03/2010 8:04:43 AM PDT by eastforker (Visit me at http://www.eastforker.com)
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To: eastforker
The Freepers who are most vocal on pro-life issues seem to be firmly in the "all or nothing" camp.

I respect their consistency, but a demand for all or nothing in this case seems to produce, in every case, the "nothing" alternative.

13 posted on 11/03/2010 8:11:06 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (God Hates Figs!! (Mark 11:12-14 ))
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To: eastforker; All
No matter how morally corrupt the idea of abortion is, most Americans wish to retain that option if it is in their interest.

ALL: Allow me to "translate" this for you:

No matter how morally corrupt the idea of abortion is =

#1 "Hey, well, I don't think it's 'corrupt' if I postulate this as an up-for-grabs premise...I mean, come on, had I really thought this was corrupt, I'd tell them to 'quit' doing this like I did in post #27."

#2 "Note how cleverly I reduced 'abortion' to a mere 'idea' here -- as if it was some abstract impersonal issue. I have now taken the reality of 4,000 dismembered pre-borns each day and have abstracted them into the mental debate of arguing 'ideas.' Why the next thing ya know, I might on one of these threads describe my eyewitness experience of seeing an 18-wheeler drag a man and his scooter in a local intersection as just an 'idea'!"

most Americans wish to retain that option

#3 "Why see how clever I am. Planned Parenthood talks about 'choice' without ever discussing what they are choosing upon whom. Like Planned Parenthood, I have used a free-floating intransitive verb of being 'pro-option' without really delineating the realities of what that 'option' is...and, of course, I'm quite clever because I was able to use a parallel word to the pro-aborts' fave euphemism for abortion ('choice') without anybody on this thread calling me for it."

"if it is in their interest."

#4 "Why, see how casually I have pulled this off? I float into usage of the word 'interest' as if we're talking about a book club interest, or a chess club interest. Why you'd never guess we were talking about flesh, blood, and guts by the way I deftly stated that."

31 posted on 11/04/2010 5:09:00 AM PDT by Colofornian ("So how do LDS deal with the [Adam-God] phenomenon? WE DON'T; WE SIMPLY SET IT ASIDE" - BYU prof)
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