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Old 01-13-2002, 08:17 PM  
LadyLaw
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Baddog, this topic will always be a tough one, even for a liberal-minded adult community. Even among the pro-choice camp there is a huge diversity of opinion, which thankfully we are entitled to as Americans.

On one hand, I think we are all pro-life in the most liberal and normal sense of the word...I like my life, and I'm sure you like yours. I love babies, having given birth to two of them myself, I am profoundly aware of the implications of abortion. A potential baby dies, no doubt. For this reason, I am not pro-abortion. I don't think abortions should be taken lightly, or used indiscriminately as birth control. I am not in favor of abortions past 12 weeks.

On the other hand, I am very pro-choice, and I support, and will continue to support a woman's right a choose whether to carry a baby to term or have an abortion.

As a woman, I applaud men like you who support a woman's right to choose. Generally, I DETEST the predominately white, Republican legislators who would deny women the right to choose, who would force a woman to bear and birth an unwanted baby without much financial assistance, with little regard for the quality of the life that is born.

I don't detest Dave Thomas however...as an adopted child, he made adoption as an alternative to abortion a priority in his life, and I applaud his activism as a positive attempt to provide an alternative. Yes, he was supportive of the "pro-life" agenda, with which I cannot agree, but I see his efforts to mitigate the harsh reality of his no-choice stance as better than anything Senator Jesse Helms, our own Osama Falwell and Osama Robertson, Ayatollah Orin Hatch, and the rest of that crew ever came up with.



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