My LTTE: Anti-abortionists Fall Into Two Categories

Larkspur

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Wed Nov-09-05 05:28 PM
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My LTTE: Anti-abortionists Fall Into Two Categories

http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=C506E2BA-672A-4812-871E-A3E0FABC3667

Published in The Day on 11/9/2005

The writer of the letter titled “Show some respect for pro-life advocates,” published Nov. 7, asks pro-choice advocates to not scorn his beliefs.

In my experience, I've met two kinds of anti-abortion advocates: the militant zealots and moderates.

The former remind me of the Pharisees, who dragged the female prostitute before Jesus to test his knowledge of Mosaic Law. Unfortunately for them, Jesus noticed that they didn't drag the prostitute's clientele before him as well. That same misogynist mentality is displayed by the modern-day Pharisees in the militant anti-abortion groups. I never see them exerting the same fervor of conviction against men who get the woman seeking abortion pregnant, nor against men who prey upon children, nor against men who abuse their spouses and children. Their wrath is always directed against women seeking abortion and supporters of women's reproductive rights.

In contrast to the militants, moderate anti-abortionists have a broader social conscience. Like pro-choice advocates, they understand that improving the social and economic situations of women and their families often leads to a humane decrease in unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions.

I have a couple questions for anti-abortionists who believe that life begins at conception. According to current fetal science, nearly two-thirds of all conceptions are terminated naturally. Is your God wasteful or monstrous?

If life begins at conception and Christians believe that a person must be baptized before dying to enter Heaven, how does God expect that microscopic fertilized egg to be baptized before he aborts it?

I intentionally was provocative in the last 2 paragraphs. It will be interesting what responses I'll get from the anti-abortion advocates. The last time I did this in another newspaper the response was that "God causes miscarriages. He does not abort." Aren't miscarriages natural abortions?

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xray s

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Wed Nov-09-05 05:34 PM
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1. oh wow

Edited on Wed Nov-09-05 05:35 PM by xray s

just thinking about those last two challenges. lets say you are a woman who is prone to miscarriages because of a physical problem. If you still try to have children, knowing you have that physical problem, does that make you a murderer for every miscarriage you have?

Wonder what the fundie zealots would say about that.

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Larkspur

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Wed Nov-09-05 05:43 PM
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5. Good question.

Depending on resposes to my LTTE, I may pose your question as a response. Thanks.

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Arkansas Granny

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Wed Nov-09-05 05:35 PM
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2. Actually, the medical term for miscarriage is spontaneous abortion.

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Larkspur

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Wed Nov-09-05 05:43 PM
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3. Thanks for that

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patrice

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Wed Nov-09-05 05:43 PM
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4. The Economic and Budget policies of BushCo increase Abortions.

From the beginning of this country Women have been psychologically programmed to be an acessory to men's egos. When this causes developmental problems ON BOTH sides, within the context of Economic Injustice, abortion NEEDS to be an option, so women have a chance to work out solutions to their own lives, and developmental dysfunctions, without Men being involved, which legally can't happen (most of the time) as long as there is a baby.

Abortion is not the sickness, Economic Injustice is.

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patrice

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Wed Nov-09-05 05:44 PM
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6. Excellent point about Baptism!!

Edited on Wed Nov-09-05 05:45 PM by patrice

P.S. Aren't they "Anti-Choice" activists?

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Mend

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Wed Nov-09-05 05:59 PM
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7. My two categories for those people are:

1. anti-abortionists who have had abortions themselves
2. anti-abortionists who have gotten abortions for their daughters.

I kid you not.

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gkhouston

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Wed Nov-09-05 06:12 PM
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8. what about tubal pregnancies?

Edited on Wed Nov-09-05 06:13 PM by gkhouston

are the doctors who remove those pregnancies, thereby undeniably saving the woman's life, murderers? Is the God who arranged for that pregnancy deliberately "testing" the doctor... or the woman?

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Larkspur

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Wed Nov-09-05 06:46 PM
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9. I had a friend who had a this

She had the doctor suck it out, and technically, yes that is an abortion. She went on to have another healthy child.

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