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To: E who wrote (3965)	1/30/2001 12:30:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I know where you're coming from, Jorj, but the proposal to deny this particular procedure to the poor who qualify for other medical procedures because this one offends the religious convictions of some taxpayers isn't based on a principle otherwise followed. Ever. At all. In any case. Do pacifists get to stipulate that their taxes won't go for warmaking? Do animal rights activists get to stipulate that theirs won't go for medical research involving animals? Do ethical vegetarians get to stipulate no subsidies to the cattle industry? Do Zionist American Jews get to stipulate that their taxes won't go to the Palestinian Authority, or American Arabs get an Israel deduction on April 15? Do Christian and other fundamentalists who believe divorce is immoral get to decline to subsidize the administration of that process? Sure for all of them, if they manage to get enough political power to make their view prevail. If enough people don't want government money to support somthing and they fight for it hard enough then it is unlikely that government will suppport it. Personally I would join the "ethical vegetarian" in his fight against subsidies to the cattle industry, but for a different reason. Tim

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