vision2020
RE: Women's rights
Dearest friends,
You are right... it is tricky... who said everything has to be easy?! It
seems that we as a culture are becoming more and more inclined to take the
easy path instead of doing the right thing. We are talking about terminating
a life. We cannot make decisions based on our convenience! There are times
that I wish I had a vaporizing gun on my car when people drive like snails
in front of me. It would be more convenient for me to just get rid of the
slow poke in front of me but it would not be the right thing to do.
As mentioned earlier in discussions you have to be careful with
statistics... if the number you give is accurate (lets assume it is) I bet
most of those deaths are not in the US. We are talking about this country
here. Also... that is 600K out of how many millions of women giving birth? I
am willing to go on a limb and say that the mortality rate in US is very
small and if you looked at the situations you would find that many, if not
most, have special circumstances. I am not saying that women do not die
giving birth... I am saying that you cannot treat a human life based on
another person's convenience.
I knew that one would get a bite!! :)
Your brother in arms,
Shahab...
Shahab Mesbah
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Dredge [mailto:sdredge@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:09 AM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Women's rights
It's tricky business writing legislation criminilizing
abortion and yet allowing exceptions for instances
when "the [woman's] life is in danger or in case of
rape or incest". A case can be made that a woman's
life is in danger during any pregnancy considering
approximately 600,000 women die worldwide each year
due to complications of childbirth.
My belief is that this type of decision belongs
strictly to the woman.
--- Shahab Mesbah <meteor2@moscow.com> wrote:
>For example I was not
> crazy about Mr. Clintons
> personal choices but as a president he did a better
> job than anyone in my
> memory. I know that Mr. Bush would not be the
> president of US if it were not
> for his father and brother. I am alarmed at the
> racial divide that has
> occurred in Florida. I oppose legalized abortion
> unless the mother's life is
> in danger or incase of rape or incest. I am opposed
> to gun control but am
> adamantly for licensing its use (we license
> driving). I have worked hard for
> the charter schools but am opposed to them now due
> to my understanding of
> the corruption within it and the reasoning we have
> it (to fend off vouchers
> not to improve our schools). While I am on the topic
> you should know that
> both of my children are far happier and academically
> more advanced since
> they left the charter school and entered Lena
> Whitmore School. I am
> impressed with the teachers and the staff led by an
> excellent principal. I
> am an environmentalist but understand that forests
> are a resource that can
> be managed properly and farms can be environmentally
> friendly. The list goes
> on...
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