On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:19:20 -0600 (CST) "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> writes:
>And political movements unwilling to protect defenseless humans like the
>unborn will probably find other groups they can dispense with, too --
>e.g., the infirm elderly.
> --C. G. Estabrook
Yow! A pro-life leftist! I thought Christopher Hitchens had a monopoly on that schtick! But hey, this is the kind of back and forth I like to see.
Coming from the same Catholic background as Doug, I've had to wrassle with all of that jive about abortion = murder, but I *really* don't think that defending reproductive rights puts us on a slippery slope towards becoming the Khmer Rouge...
See Carroll, asking mindless questions stirs up a little controversy and hopefully allows us to eventually arrive at "truth."
Ahh, sweet, elusive "truth," casting shadows on the cave wall...
"Maybe I'm just a shadow on the wall." - Pere Ubu, _Heart of Darkness_
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