Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970619072336.0081f420@maestro.mitre.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 07:23:36 -0400
To: Pr.Bruxelles@agora.stm.it
From: Gary Bisaga Subject: Important thoughts (was: < TRANSNATIONAL #13 >)
At 08:32 PM 6/18/97 ITA, you wrote:
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UNIVERSAL ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
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I am afraid you are being very inconsistent by trying to abolish one form of the death penalty while supporting others. For, at the same time, you support the right to kill perfectly innocent people while denying the right to kill people who have been judged by their peers to have committed heinous crimes against the state and against humanity. The perfectly innocent people I am speaking of here include unborn children. You may say "but they are not yet born." Why should the accident of proceeding down the birth canal or not make a difference as to whether we are allowed to kill somebody? If you support killing babies before they are born, why not allow it just afterward? What possible difference is there between a baby 10 minutes before he is born and 10 minutes after? Or, for that matter, why not allow killing up to 1 year old? Or 3? Why have any limit at all?
If you are concerned about a "woman's right to choose" to kill her baby because it is a burden to her, surely you know that the nine months the woman is carrying the baby is only the start, and a rather insignificant start at that. What about the following 18 years? Surely there's far more wear and tear (physical, mental, financial, relational) on mothers (and fathers) for the 18 years from birth to adulthood than for that short nine months (really only about seven from discovery of pregnancy to birth).
Shouldn't, then, parents have a right to kill their children at any time until they are 18?
I realize that you will probably not respond to this note, and that's fine.
Consider it an opportunity for you to think about what you are advocating rather than just blindly supporting the agenda.
Love in Christ,
Gary Bisaga
