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Establish Themselves Judges

Their sermonizing is bankrupt
and empty so long as they maintain
that we might murder people some
of the time, and then establish
themselves as judges. As long-as a
standard of selective murder is
accepted, then they have no right
to interfere, the issue is a personal
one, and none of their business.

No matter how we glory the
state and the law, it is no more than
a matter of those who possess the
power to murder me telling me
what I may or may not do,
justifying with an idolatry of law
and arbitrary an empty standard.

There is no easy panacea for
solving this issue, unless we reach to
the problem. There are women who
know how to treat the abortion
issues; they quite wisely have
nothing to do with men. Others
who find a place for men, and sex,
in their lives, demand that men
share the responsibility of
preventing pregnancy. There are
millions of women, who have not
yet been reached, who still allow
the sexual games to be played with
them, still serve as organic
masturbation for men who fear
they are latently homosexual. Until
they can resolve for themselves the
issue of sexual interrelation we will
still have the issue of abortion.

What makes this an even
stronger phenomena is that these
Right to Lifers appear only when
the issue becomes common. One
never heard their pious
recriminations when the only
people getting abortions were the
daughters of the aristocracy, in fact
they'd probably still condone it
because the law reads that
abortions are legal when the
physical or mental health of the
person is jeopardized.

Of course a doctor has to decide
this, and since health and medical
expertise is not a free commodity,
but a function of income and social
status it seems likely that the trend
of coat hanger abortions will
continue (I've been told that
despite the liberalization of the
New York laws the number of
deaths due to shoddy abortion
techniques has not diminished.)