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Originally posted by Peaches@Jun 19 2003, 06:01 AM
I am pro-choice as I don't personally think that a 3 month old fetus is a child any more than an unfertilized egg is a child. IMHO, if someone's pregnant, and they consider the fetus IS a child, and they STILL abort, do we really want that person to be a parent?  I also think that all the pro-lifers should spend their time/money adopting and raising unwanted BORN children if they're as pro-life as they claim they are.
I am pro-death penalty and I think that for those that the DNA shows they killed or raped someone, or if they admit it, there should be no appeals process. Zap 'em immediately upon conviction. 
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I'm with Peaches on this one.
I have no moral issue with abortion (which is not to say that I think it should be used as a method of birth control). Compared to leaving a newborn in a trash can, it's infinitely preferable.
I saw a big ad on the side of the bus the other day:
"No names, no blame, no shame" Touting a program here where any woman who has a baby she doesn't want can leave that baby at a hospital or fire station. This is in direct response to the number of "trash babies" that have been found in recent years.
I can't help but remember the literal explosion in the number of children who grew up in orphanages and workhouses in Europe when the church opened their doors to any unwanted babies because they wanted to end the practice of exposure of infants by parents who couldn't afford them.
Let's face it, most of the people beating the anti-abortion drum are not turning out in droves to adopt non-white babies with a high incidence of medical and psychological issues resulting from their mothers' drug and/or alcohol use. And in fact some of those people even employ extreme measures by taking fertility treatments and having multiple children (many with medical problems) and then tearfully waxing poetic in the media about their miracles of modern medical technology being some kind of gift from God. Meanwhile God's other gifts are destined to live in orphanages for a lifetime until and unless some truly noble couple takes them in, despite these children's misfortune of being born the wrong color.