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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 07:39 AM

  -- Retzilian

  My best friend is pro-abortion. We disagree, but friendship is more than agreeing on a laundry list of policy positions.

  We agree about being "against killing all the time on all questions." However, I would never force someone to have an unwanted baby. I guess we disagree on the idea that it's "murder" to destroy a fetus. We can agree to disagree about that. I think you are a man, therefore, you don't really know much about having babies. I don't think, based on all I know about babies (and I know a lot), that the fetus has any sensation or has a "soul" between mitosis and 12 weeks, but your mileage may vary.

  The idea that if someone is raped or broke or if the father has flown the coop, or for whatever legitimate reason someone has to not choose to carry a child or give birth, that having a baby just to "choose life" is a bad idea. There are so many things wrong with that, let's just skip that part. I am for people choosing those things for themselves.

  Additionally, I notice you don't mention the Male Element in your rather sanctimonious rant against the girl part of the equation - did you forget that there is a sperm involved? Or are women now parthenogenic?

  To me it is beyond hypocrisy to defend unborn babies to the point of murdering doctors and blowing up clinics and creating hate-mongering political parties from this issue, and then turn around and neglect the already born children in this country or those of other countries we as a nation deliberately destroy.

  As with all important issues, you might want to walk a mile in some woman's shoes one day to understand this.

  -- Retzilian

  In this country only the girl gets to decide if the baby lives or dies. Legally the boy has no say; so I did not mention him other than to point out that everyone seems surprised at where babies come from.

  I never see anyone mention that the girl could take the baby to term and then turn it over for adoption to the many couples (and singles) that would love to take an American baby rather than have to go overseas for a child.

  Anyone who kills a doctor or blows up a clinic is guilty of the most grievous of murder. I totally oppose the use of violence.

  I have females in my own family who have faced this decision. I need not be female to understand as long as the babies being killed are male as well as female.

  I remember in high school when a new thing called the pill came out. I thought that there would never be any more unwanted children in our country. Boy, was I wrong.

  Hard cases make for bad law say the lawyers. The case of rape or incest is real hard. The child did not commit the rape; but he gets the death penalty! Damn! By the way, did I mention I am against the death penalty?

  I think that adoption would be a better solution if the god damn government would stay out of it. I know several well-off women who would pay the girls expenses and take very good care of the baby; perhaps even pay her a profit. The government will send folks to jail that try that scheme.

  —heru-ur Read heru-ur's other letters
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