"No-choice", "pro-choice", etc.

Dave Gaban drrod@slip.net
Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:40:30 -0800 (00890480430, 351352CE.6F99@slip.net) 

Ralph Nielsen wrote:

> 

> >LARRY

> >>>> In a recent court case, a Judge sentenced a woman to prison for 'child

> >endangerment' for smoking crack cocaine while she was pregnant. Even though

> >no harm came to the baby. Clearly this Judge has an agenda and is

> >attempting to set a precedence to establish a fetus as having certain

> >rights.

> >> This is unfortunate since I believe that this could eventually lead to

> >regulating all of a woman’s activities during pregnancy. How about

> >disregarding a doctor’s advice about bed-rest, you miscarry and then what?

> >Prison? How about whether you choose to use prenatal vitamins? What about

> >> deciding to exercise or not? Perhaps overweight, out of shape women

> >shouldn’t be allowed to have babies. Can’t risk it. Where will this end?

> >With government mandated parenting classes? Fail and they take your baby?

> >>

> >> I was discussing this issue with a Christian the other day that actually

> >advocated taking the babies away from and anyone under 18 and putting them

> >up for adoption. What kind of society is that?

> >>

> RALPH

> I find it hard to believe that taking cocaine or other drugs does not harm a fetus. So wouldn't it be more merciful to order the woman to abort the damaged fetus rather than give birth to a deformed and diseased baby whose life will probably be miserable?

> 

 Oh, I know. Misery is a Xian virtue.

DAVE G.
Ralph, Of course aborting the damaged baby would be the only merciful
thing to do. I believe people who knowingly bring deformed and retarded 
(those so retarded they can never care for themselves)children do so out
of selfishness, religious bull@*&% and ignorance, not compassion. Those
that do so and then dump the child on the State to care for are even
worse. Now we (tax payers) must pay to keep these monstrosities alive.
And what kind of a loving and merciful God would allow this deformed and
or retarded child to survive gestation?