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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (364229)2/27/2003 12:55:11 PM
From: SecularBull  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
ON ABORTION: Lizzie, the right to life is an absolute right. The right to make life and lifestyle choices is secondary to that. We cannot grant the latter right if in so doing it infringes upon the absolute right of another to life itself.

The pregnant woman, through her own lifestyle choice, has created another life. Her power over that new life is now limited in the sense that her rights to choice are now subordinate to its right to life. Her choice was on the front side, and that choice should have consequences for her and not for an innocent third party.

The only dilemma for my argument is in the case of rape or incest. That's a tough one, and I am inclined to grant the woman the right to an abortion, since she was most likely deprived of her right to choose to have intercourse to begin with. I find it morally difficult to require her to give birth to a child she had no control over creating. Yet, the dilemma is still there, since we would still be sanctioning the killing of an unborn child.

~SB~
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