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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Johnathan C. Doe who wrote (13979)11/9/1998 1:12:00 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
Johnathan, I believe the bible thumping part of the Republican party does focus on abortion too much. Yes, we need to find a middle ground. When you ask people who are pro-life the difficult questions, the answers they give are hardly reasonable given our history in this country.

1. What punishment would you hand out to woman who have abortions performed at say, 4 weeks pregnant?
2. What kinds of punishment would you hand out if doctors performed any abortion?
3. What about when the life of the mother is really at stake?
4. What about in the case of incest and rape? Should a twelve year old raped by her stepfather be forced to carry a child?

These are not simple questions to answer. A middle ground should be found. Once the child can be removed and survive on it's own outside the womb given today's science, then they should be allowed to survive. Otherwise it should be the parents choice. And yes, I believe in most cases the father should have a part in this decision.

Treating every woman tortured over the decision whether to abort a fetus like a 1st degree murderer is extremist. Most Americans I believe agree with this premise.

The other extremist position by liberals and Democrats of aborting a fetus actually in the act of being born is wrong too. Or the other one of allowing a teenager without parental consent to have an abortion. How in the world we can have every law under the sun regarding teenagers needing permission to go on field trips at school, ride in certain busses and then say, oh, it's ok to go have an abortion is ridiculous to me.

Michael
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