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DLW
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| Posted 9/2/2003 1:53 PM (GMT -6) |   | Tim Penny on abortion
From personal communication:My fundamental belief on this mater is that abortion is morally wrong. I would therefore like to see policies that lead to a significant reductions in the number of abortions performed. Having said that, I do not believe the effort to bar abortions through legal impediments has produced anything except acrimony. I do not see any real reduction in abortions resulting from the Pro-life initiated legislation over these past thirty years.
So I have come to the conclusion that (while I could support limitations on late term abortions, do support a ban on partial-birth abortions, and do want parental consent when minors are faced with an unwanted pregnancy) it is unwise and unproductive to try to stop abortions by making them illegal.
So-given the fact that almost everyone agrees that abortion is a tragedy and that fewer would be better - the only sensible solution is prevention.
I think we need to define prevention broadly so as to include abstinence education. And, pregnancy prevention programs should be elgible for public funds so long as they produce results.
I wrote of this matter in my book - The Fifteen Biggest Lies in Politics. The issue of abortion (elaborating the view just articulated) is covered in chapter one of the book.
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312254598/qid=1062546835/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-0981372-5634220?v=glance&s=books
Tim Penny.
I can pass on questions for Tim, if you have any.
Adiaphora, I can't cut out the below repeat of the post? help?
From personal communication:My fundamental belief on this mater is that abortion is morally wrong. I would therefore like to see policies that lead to a significant reductions in the number of abortions performed. Having said that, I do not believe the effort to bar abortions through legal impediments has produced anything except acrimony. I do not see any real reduction in abortions resulting from the Pro-life initiated legislation over these past thirty years.
So I have come to the conclusion that (while I could support limitations on late term abortions, do support a ban on partial-birth abortions, and do want parental consent when minors are faced with an unwanted pregnancy) it is unwise and unproductive to try to stop abortions by making them illegal.
So-given the fact that almost everyone agrees that abortion is a tragedy and that fewer would be better - the only sensible solution is prevention.
I think we need to define prevention broadly so as to include abstinence education. And, pregnancy prevention programs should be elgible for public funds so long as they produce results.
I wrote of this matter in my book - The Fifteen Biggest Lies in Politics. The issue of abortion (elaborating the view just articulated) is covered in chapter one of the book.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=glance&s=books
Tim Penny.
Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes." | | Back to Top | | |
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