----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Abortion and the Democratic Party Re:TheAmericanPoliticalLandscape Today
> I'll answer this quickly...I'm going someplace with my wife. Part > of my > experience is listening to my sister's experience as a nurse > observing late > term abortions where the mother's life was not at risk at a hospital > she > was working at. She found them very disturbing. > > I could ask her for specifics for the list, but she and her husband > are > _very_ stressed out over their work situations at the present time > and I > don't want to add to it. But, when she said this she was > specifically > asked about grave risk to the mother, etc. and replied in the > negative. > Not really what I was asking about, but thanks for taking the time anyway. I was looking for a specific occurrence of someone claiming anxiety as a reason to abort a very late term child. My personal belief is that abortions should be restricted to the first trimester or even just a bit past that in elective cases. But I am not sold on the idea that this is the governments business. It seems to me that many pro-lifers feel that their relationship with government should be very libertarian, yet "other" people need to be controlled by government in order that their sensibilities not be offended. Perhaps this is a symptom of the kind of conservatism people seem to accrue naturally as they grow old. It seems to me that many pro-choicers are so afraid of the slippery slope (or maybe even of just losing the argument and becoming irrelevant) that they auto-reject sensible limitations that are intended to preserve life. So what is the value of life when we find it so easy to send new adults and newly born to their deaths? What I find myself seeing is people who value life on one hand while devaluing it on the other, and in that sense, all the rhetoric in the world is not worth the sophistry it is wrapped in. Is there any way we can come to an agreement on the value of life that can be applied consistently across the spectrum of our endeavors? It does not seem so most of the time. But isn't it our moral responsibility to do such a thing? xponent Current Moral Graduations Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
