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The Pro-Life Movement's Problem With Morality
The Washington Dispatch ^
| June 6, 2003
| Cathryn Crawford
Posted on 06/06/2003 10:32:33 AM PDT by Cathryn Crawford
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To: palmer
Don't need either alternative. Humanity is universally recognizable through our emotions such as empathy. If we value and nurture our ingrained desire to not see other recognizable humans in pain, then abortion will be a much less likely personal decision by women. But the empathy is a consequence, result, or effect that stems from the prior intellectual recognition of the fact and great value of human life -- and that's where logic comes in. For a psychopath who believes intellectually that life is evil, an abortion should give him the very same warm fuzzy feeling you are describing here. Or, say, for the Nazis who believed, irrationally, that Jews were evil or subhuman, murdering six million of them and turning them into lampshades (or whatever) was no big deal.
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:36:14 AM PDT
by
kesg
To: Cathryn Crawford
Why does everyone treat morality like a bad thing?
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:37:16 AM PDT
by
RAT Patrol
(Congress can give one American a dollar only by first taking it away from another American. -W.W.)
To: jmc813
Thank you!
It's only common sense.
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:38:16 AM PDT
by
Cathryn Crawford
(Save your breath. You'll need it to blow up your date.)
To: Cathryn Crawford
Oh yeah, and it looks to me like everyone in politics has their own rooftop to shout from. We're not unique in that.
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:38:20 AM PDT
by
RAT Patrol
(Congress can give one American a dollar only by first taking it away from another American. -W.W.)
To: RAT Patrol
Why does everyone treat morality like a bad thing?
A better question is, "Why does morality have such a bad name?"
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:38:51 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(Superstition is a mind in chains.)
To: RAT Patrol
I don't know. If you mean me, I didn't. I was simply saying that perhaps it's not the answer to changing people's minds on this issue.
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:39:06 AM PDT
by
Cathryn Crawford
(Save your breath. You'll need it to blow up your date.)
Comment #107 Removed by Moderator
To: Colofornian
paterfamilias: The head of the family unit. His right to do as he pleased with the members of his family unit was rigidly protected by the laws of the Roman State.
Personally, I would execute my daughter for bringing shame upon my family.
Abortion? My daughter is very lucky she was not born 2,000 years ago!
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:39:40 AM PDT
by
Hunble
To: Cathryn Crawford
You're never going to change someone's mind with your morality.I believe that the world's major religions increase their number through proselytization (IIRC, Judaism does not, but the rest do). How is that anything but changing minds through moral example? Or do you want to argue that Jesus never changed anyone's mind without political lobbying?
To: gcruse
Don't you think it is kind of creepy to root for cancer?Nobody's "root[ing] for cancer." It's simply a matter of recognizing that when a highly traumatic insult to a woman's body is performed, one which directly interferes with the most complex systems in her body and in effect shuts down those systems just when they are gearing up to do the work they are designed to do, it's quite logical to suspect that those systems, in this case the nutrition supply system in the breast, may have an increased likelihood of experiencing a fundamental breakdown, i.e., cancer.
Some evidence now suggests that that suspicion may have a basis in fact. Pro-lifers point this out as a warning in the hope of avoiding increased breast cancer rates. For pro-choice activists the convenience of baby killing takes precedence over statistically dubious (in their view) threats to the mother's health.
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:40:26 AM PDT
by
beckett
To: Cathryn Crawford
He's not a liar and he's not a fool. He was just bringing a different issue for debate. Hehehe...
To: Cathryn Crawford
... too much time is spent on arguing about why abortion is wrong morally instead of why abortion is wrong logically. Stating that abortion is morally wrong is not logical?
It seems that the mainstream religious pro-life movement is not so clear when it comes to reasons not to have an abortion beyond the basic arguments that its a sin and youll go straight to hell.
Is it sinful to murder? Yes. Will one go to hell for it ("it" being murder or any other sin)? Depends on whether or not one has accepted Christ as personal Saviour.
... sometimes, despite the rightness of the intentions, morality has to be left out of the game. Morality doesnt bind everyone together. The only thing that does that is humanness and the logic of protecting ourselves.
Emphatically disagree.
Morality is the foundation of the pro-Life argument. It is because abortion is immoral that negative consequences follow.
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:40:55 AM PDT
by
k2blader
(Haruspex, beware.)
To: patton
No, you're not. But you do ignore your friends, sometimes.Oh, there there. Let me give you a hug.
What am I doing with my hand? Oooo, nothing, just ignore that.
Sure, everyone humps peoples legs when they are comforting one another.
You need to slip out of all that restrictive, stress-causing clothing. Here, let me help...
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:41:15 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I've decided to cut back my tagline, one word at a)
To: Colofornian
Ancient Law?Paterfamilias: The head of the family unit. His right to do as he pleased with the members of his family unit was rigidly protected by the laws of the Roman State.
Personally, I would execute my daughter for bringing shame upon my family.
Abortion? My daughter is very lucky she was not born 2,000 years ago!
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:41:28 AM PDT
by
Hunble
To: patton
Was it wrong for Hitler to gas the Jews?
That depends...
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:41:34 AM PDT
by
johnb838
(Understand the root causes of American Anger.)
To: Lazamataz
Unborn babies' bodies?... Just like the poor ignored Iraqis. It's that uterus that is strategic, and the Iraqis, er, I mean, the babies can fend for themselves. [Imagine what 'every man, er , bee for himself' would mean to honey production!]
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:42:29 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: Cathryn Crawford
Wherefore charm?Oh come on. Admit it.
Or I will sing "I'm Henry the Eighth I am" over and over again.
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:42:33 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I've decided to cut back my tagline, one word at a)
To: Lazamataz; patton
I wonder what Gen. Patton would have done had you "comforted" him so warmly.
To: Cathryn Crawford
Good article CC. Thank you.
You will not convince people of an argument based solely on morality. Amen.
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posted on
06/06/2003 11:43:06 AM PDT
by
najida
(A clean house is the sign of a broken computer.)
To: gcruse
A better question is, "Why does morality have such a bad name?" Heretics and reprobates like you?
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