Posted on 11/28/2001 2:48:37 PM PST by Caleb1411
The way I figure it, God gave us brains as well as hearts and intended us to use both. Sophisticated moral judgments aren't the easiest course, which is exactly why the fanatics aren't willing to make them. That's a serious moral failing right there.
You make a good point. He could be doing a lot worse.
Even if you disagree, as you obviously do, with both his message and the way he delivers it, will you not defend, nevertheless, his right to free speech?
You bet your butt I will defend his right under the First Amendment to do what he is doing.
Same principle. And a reasonable principle. But poorly applied. I don't think we have to worry about these folks robbing a bank.
Listen to your intial instincts, it almost always works for me. It's not reasonable, it's actually highly unreasonable.
I can't have armor on my car because the LA Police were too unprepared to have high powered rifles during a bank robbery?
That's like saying I can't have a reinforced door on my house because a SWAT team might want to bash it in some day.
It's the same argument the gun snatchers use. Only police and "special" elite people get to have certain protections, while the unwashed learn to do without.
I shouldn't have to ask anyone's permission to take measures to protect mine or my families life, nor should you and neither should these folks.
I can only speak for this particular Pro-Choicer. I would be willing to accept more restrictive laws on abortion. I have outlined my feelings about that in another thread.
The problem with many Pro-Choicers is the feeling the if you "give them an inch, they will take a mile." It is exaclty like Gun Control. We know that the Gun Grabbers want to make all firearms vanish. We know that each little restriction that we agree to, no matter how sensible it may seem (trigger lock for example), is just another step towards grabbing all guns. You have to "hold them off at the pass."
I, for one, would never approve of Pro-Choicers doing such a thing in my name. On another thread about this issue, there were some Pro-lifers who did not agree with the trucks. If you look at that poll, 7% of the voters selected "I may be against abortion, but this is too much."
How? By showing pictures of women with no children?
This is a feel-good way to do nothing about stopping abortions.
Do you not think it possible that even one woman considering having an abortion might change her mind after seeing the images?
Who would be most likely to do it? You, or the Crips and Bloods?
Cunningham said he wasn't after the 20% hardcore pro-aborts. He was after the 60% who hadn't made up their minds (paraphrasing).
A. In our clinics, we put them down the garbage disposal. We used the heavy duty model. Some second and third trimester babies' muscle structure is so strong that the baby will not come apart, so they must be disposed of through trash receptables.
--- Carol Everett, former owner of 2 abortion clinics. See the full text here
Then the debate clearly needs much more involvement from people like you and me.
"You have to "hold them off at the pass.""
That mind-set is precisely why there never will be more involvement by people like you and me. I can tell you, I've been following this issue for at least twenty-five years, and the debate has only gotten less rational, not more. Positions have become both more extreme and more hardened-- the trend is not encouraging.
Good point. You've moved me to "undecided."
Hey, the reality of it is disgusting and it's high time people had to confront the reality of it. It may disgust someone, but at least that someone will have a better understanding of the issue at hand. I hope the campaign continues.
The media has no problem showing us the "innocent victims" in Afghanistan or wherever we happen to be fighting evil at any given moment, but they flat don't want this evil shown for what it is, do they?
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Preventing some portion of abortions is better the not preventing any of them.
This guy has cojones, and speaks with a clear voice and even clearer thinking.
Those are three very rare attributes these days.
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Consider homosexuals driving trucks with graphic images of heterosexual intercourse with the idea that the images will persuade heterosexuals to become homosexual.
What Cunningham is doing makes as much sense.
Not really. Most people have no idea what abortion really "looks" like. Perhaps some will understand it better with visual aids.
Heterosexuals already know what heterosexual sex is about.
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