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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Omega. You exect civil discourse in the [i]Flameboard[/i]? That's not what the bloody thing is for! It's for pulling your opinion out and slapping people in the face with it. And an issue as charged as this one is guaran[i]teed[/i] to be a Firebat convention (Starcraft ref.). All that said, I try to take as pragmatic an approach to this subject as possible. Moral outrage doesn't impress a lot of people. Four thousand-yer-old moral guidelines that have been through many different translations are subject to enough skepticism that they can't be used as a hard-and-fast benchmark either. I'd come down on the "only in cases of rape and incest, or if the mother's life is in jeopardy" side if we could ensure, as a society, that any children born of unplanned or unwanted pregnancies would recieve sufficient nurturing that they didn't end up adding to the country's ignorant, impoverished masses. If you want to interfere further, like in this case by disallowing abortion even in cases of rape or incest, why don't we outlaw glasses, contacts, corrective eye surgery, hearing aids, cochlear implants, and all the other conveniences that interfere with what God obviously intended? So far as I know in this society, we are -- for the most part -- no longer sequestering menstruating women, or forbidding them to touch food. Nor are we killing homosexuals. Who are we to decide which precepts are outmoded and which aren't? Women have proven over and over, for thouands of years, that they will do whatever it takes if they really want an abortion. Even if they risk dying in the process. I can't help but wonder how many things would be different if we woke up one day and it was the male of the species that got pregnant... --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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