"Just because you're anti-abortion doesn't mean you're pro-life."

arbusto_baboso

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Wed Jun-03-09 03:53 PM
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"Just because you're anti-abortion doesn't mean you're pro-life."

This was said to me by an old high school classmate who has since become a nun.

She went on to imply that to be consistently "pro life" one not only has to oppose abortion, but war, capital punishment and murder as well. While I disagree with her on abortion, I at least have to repsect her consistency and her refusal to be a hypocrite.

Too bad more of the whacked-out religious right can't be similar in its views.

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unpossibles

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Wed Jun-03-09 03:59 PM
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1. the opposite is true as well

I am very staunchly Pro-Choice but that does not mean I am necessarily pro-abortion. Unless I am carrying the baby to term myself (a medical feat to say the least!), it is simply not my decision.

I also recognize that it is a difficult decision under any and all circumstances, and that prevention is more effective than legislation.

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arbusto_baboso

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Wed Jun-03-09 04:14 PM
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2. I don't think ANYONE is "pro abortion"....

So your point is taken.

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ProgressiveFool

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Wed Jun-03-09 04:18 PM
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3. I think that was also used as an ominous threat on FR re: Tiller slaying

Edited on Wed Jun-03-09 04:19 PM by ProgressiveFool

quoted in another thread.

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arbusto_baboso

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Wed Jun-03-09 04:22 PM
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4. Yikes!

Edited on Wed Jun-03-09 04:22 PM by arbusto_baboso

I hadn't thought about it, but you CAN take that statement a whole different, sinister way... :scared:

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kestrel91316

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Wed Jun-03-09 04:22 PM
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5. That is the only "prolife" position I have any respect for whatsoever.

NONE of the fundies are that kind of "prolife". They are bloodthirsty when it comes to punishment of perceived sins, and they consider war a holy sacrament.

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