"Judson McClendon" <judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> They are called "partial birth abortions" and are legally performed in
> the U.S. The pro-death people claim it is "for the health of the mother"
> which is so blatantly stupid as to defy belief that anyone would claim
> this. How could it *possibly* be detrimental to the health of the
> mother for the baby to be pulled out another 3 inches without killing
> it? Only an idiot or someone bent on dealing death to innocent babies
> would think that holding the top of the baby's head in the birth canal
> long enough to stick scissors into its head and suck out the brain
> would be better for the mother than pulling the baby completely out and
> letting it live. Those who promote such horrible barbarisms are beyond
> reason, morality and common sense. In my opinion, they are in the same
> class as the most heinous of criminals who ever walked the planet,
> for they do this to innocent babies who would be delivered healthy and
> whole, if not physically prevented from doing so in order to murder
> them. The prime function of government is to protect the innocent and
> the helpless, yet our government condones mass murder of the very most
> innocent and helpless, all in the name of convenience. There is no
> language to describe my extreme contempt and disgust for this practice,
> or anyone who would attempt to justify it. Such people have no right
> to claim any sense of morality.
Mr McClendon, you seem to have a peculiar sense of morality that
also seems out of place with respect to governments in the U.S.
It may take some getting used to; but neither religion nor its
adherrents have a lock on morality.
There is, what may be described as, an "American morality"--implied
by the U.S. Constitution--that is based on rights. Moral behavior is to
respect the rights of others--immoral behavior is to offend those rights.
The primary function of all governments, where the U.S. Constitution
has effect, is to protect the rights of the people. Within the context of
this "American morality", those who attempt to impose their particular
morality and, in so doing, offend the rights of others, are immoral.
I have no interest in how the procedure is done, only in whether the
procedure will, in some way, violate the rights of the woman. This
is, in the U.S., the proper moral obligation for this matter.
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