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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Enam Luf who wrote (13009)	2/29/2000 1:48:00 AM
From: Enam Luf	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I feel the need to readdress the issue everyone loves to hate, right to life, before I'm off to dreamland. As a middle-of-the-road type of guy, I've always believed in pro-choice position as morally defensible, as I would say it's not my place to make that decision for a woman, it is her body. However, after recently arguing the point over and over with myself and with others, I'm not so sure anymore. This is not to say that I have turned pro-life. I have just come to to the conclusion that to abort an unwanted pregnancy (fetus, unborn child, fertilized egg, whatever your diction of choice) is essentially to kill a potential human being, which at some point is separate and apart from the mother, and it should not be glossed over morally as so many of us pro-choicers often do. Scientifically speaking there is really no getting around this fact, and it troubles me. The problem I run into is that we need to deal with the world the way it is, not the way we would like to see it, or the way we would like to make it become. Education and proper contraceptive should, imo, play a larger role, but that would never eliminate the large problem of unwanted pregnancy, it's unrealistic to think otherwise. Banning abortions would likely compound the problem, resulting in more unwanted children and forcing mothers into unhealthy alternatives. So in the end, an aborted fetus becomes a unfortunate casualty of war, a war fought for the greater benefit of our society (which, in reality, does not include those who have not yet been born, not that it makes it any better) not much different than a innocent civilian loss in a bombing campaign against another nation, which we seem to live with well enough, out of necessity. It is not pleasant to think this way, I am not fond of it, but to deceive myself into thinking otherwise would be unforgivable to myself. IMO, rules should be imposed to limit the causalties as much as possible and to spare as much pain as possible. I don't know what the proper way to deal with it would be (perhaps 1st trimester only essentially just enough time after the point that a woman cannot be unaware the fact she's pregnant to make a decision), but I think I can safely say that that my full endorsement of the pro-choice position is hereby withdrawn. Not that any of u care what i think. enam comments always welcome