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Responsibility: One
has to ask, "Where
responsibility fits in here?"
What
is the government's
responsibility?
Is
it the government's
responsibility to outlaw
everything that is in the least
bit dangerous?
Of course not! To
justify outlawing abortion or
keeping it legal on this basis
is to use the argument
called "the Red Herring." The
argument goes something like
this:
The
Pro-choice Side:
Should we outlaw cars,
airplanes, skydiving, tobacco, alcohol,
bicycles, skateboards and soccer
matches because people have died
in activities relating to these
things? Shall we
outlaw stairs because people
have fallen down them and died?
Perhaps we should outlaw schools
because innocent children are
still being murdered there.
How much protection is enough?
When does protection become
fascism?
The
Pro-life Side:
Should we allow women to kill
babies just because it's inconvenient
to keep them alive?
Shall we allow doctors to kill
old people because it costs
money to keep them alive? Life begins
at conception, therefore
abortion is murder.
These
arguments plug neatly into one's
emotions and tend to move the
listener. They are
often quite
effective.
When you listen to the
forced-motherhood story line, we invite
you to be aware that the
speaker is attempting to trigger
an emotional response in you and
get you to support his/her
position.
The Evidence:
There
claims are all based on beliefs
about reality that are not
substantiated by the
evidence. Check the
evidence for
yourself. Here are
four places to
start:
Is
Abortion
is a Religious
Freedom Issue?°
Life
Begins When?-- (God's Conception-Magic
Act)°
Life
Begins When ? - The [Roman] Catholic Encyclopedia's
Perspective °
Life begins
at conception,°
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What
Is the Pregnant Woman's
Responsibility?
There
are some women who should never,
ever, under any circumstances
terminate a pregnancy.
Any women who has been mentally
conditioned with Christian guilt
is going to have post-abortion
stress and trauma. The level of
guilt, the amount of
stress, and the intensity of the
trauma, will depend upon how
strongly her was programmed with
Christian guilt.
(See
the five
examples listed above under the
heading: What
Does the Evidence Tell Us?)
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What
about the women who have had
abortions and later
become
adamantly anti-choice?
Who's
responsible for their ignorance,
for their desperation, for their
wrong decision. Did
someone force them to have an
abortion? Are
these women victims of abortion
rights?
Because it was wrong for them,
does that make it wrong for
everybody else, too.
Where does political
and religious freedom fit into
this picture? What
about the psychological concept
called "Projection?"
Where does that fit into their
anti-abortion stance.
And what about guilt?
Is anti-choice activity simply a
guilt-appeasement mechanism?
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There's the
Question of Control:
Who
makes your decisions about your
use or non-use of products that
are potentially
dangerous? Who
makes your decisions about
whether or not your engaging in activities
that are dangerous?
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And Then There Are the
Real Questions:
Who owns a woman's body?
Who decides whether or not she
is to become a mother?
The
woman herself? Or
the State?
Who
pays the personal price of
forced motherhood°
and
Who
pays the social price of forced
motherhood°
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More Questions:
Who
controls the State and who
controls the minds of those who
control the State?
By their actions, it's obvious
that those controlling the State
are blind worshippers of
"The Great God,
Money," so who really is in
charge?
Crime Control:
Of
course we must not condone
violence against others.
Ask yourself, "In whose
name are the most vile acts of
violence perpetrated?" And
who commits these acts of
violence? The answer
is quite easy to find.
Religious fanatics
commit crimes in the
name of God, political
fascists commit crimes in the name of
almost anything you can imagine,
and the ego-atheists who run the
world's largest corporations
commit crimes in worship
of The Great God
Money. Millions
die or live in misery so
corporate executives can say,
"In the last quarter (three
months) our company made a
profit."
And One Other Thing:
Which is
the greater crime, shooting
someone with a gun or
intentionally standing by and
allowing that person to starve
to death? Here's a
list of the activities
of our anti-choice promoters.
What
Are the Responsibilities of
those who would outlaw abortion?
That
question is answered in
considerable detail on the page
titled: Responsibility
- The Key to Resolving
the Unwanted Pregnancy Problem.
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