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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (144167)	10/30/2008 11:19:26 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Please I've heard that for years. The first was from Nicholas van Hoffman - probably 30 years ago. .... Here is what social critic Nicholas von Hoffman says about the important social benefits of abortion. "At their demonstrations," von Hoffman writes, "the anti-abortionists parade around with pictures of dead and dismembered fetuses. The pro abortionists should meet these displays with some of their own: pictures of the victims of the unaborted - murder victims, rape victims, mutilation victims - pictures to remind us that the fight for abortion is but part of the larger struggle for safe streets and safe homes." Let us consider that soberly: Some of the unborn babies who are aborted for the "good" of the mother, the "good" of the "unwanted" child, and the "good" of an overburdened society could, if born, turn out to be among the predators that von Hoffman worries about. Those are the types who fall into that category of human excess we frequently call the lower orders of society. So von Hoffman out-Scrooge ' s Scrooge: Let them die, and decrease the potential mugger population. .... soli.inav.net ... As Nicholas von Hoffman writes in the New York Observer: "Free, cheap abortion is a policy of social defense. To save ourselves from being murdered in our beds and raped on the streets, we should do everything possible to encourage pregnant women who don't want the baby and will not take care of it to get rid of the thing before it turns into a monster... "At their demonstrations, the anti-abortionists parade around with pictures of dead and dismembered fetuses. The pro-abortionists should meet these displays with some of their own: pictures of the victims of the unaborted--murder victims, rape victims, mutilation victims--pictures to remind us that the fight for abortion is but part of the larger struggle for safe homes and safe streets." .... groups.csail.mit.edu