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To: cincinnati65
I would have to say "The Cider House Rules"

There is one great line in the movie: When Michael Caine's character is grumbling to two of the orphan kids how nobody wants them and how miserable their lives are, the kid played by Toby McGuire says - "Well, it beats the incinerator."

That's about the best anti-abortion argument I've ever heard!
47 posted on 03/23/2002 8:52:16 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: over3Owithabrain
Yeah, but the message of the film was how when Toby Maguire was young and naive, abortion was wrong. But when he "grew up" and matured, he naturally saw that there was a proper place for abortion in this world.

And don't forget Delroy Lindo's speech "The people that made up them rules don't have to live in this cider house. They don't gotta live by them rules. We gone tear down them rules and make our own rules." It doesn't get more liberal than that, in my mind.

56 posted on 03/23/2002 8:57:23 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: over3Owithabrain
Yes, Cider House rules would get my vote.
64 posted on 03/23/2002 8:59:46 PM PST by Eva
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To: over3Owithabrain
There is one great line in the movie: When Michael Caine's character is grumbling to two of the orphan kids how nobody wants them and how miserable their lives are, the kid played by Toby McGuire says - "Well, it beats the incinerator."

So in twenty or fifty years, when the Dred Scott sentiment has passed, Hollywood will point proudly to this line as proof they were pro-life all the time.

331 posted on 03/25/2002 6:59:31 AM PST by js1138
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