[Peace-discuss] Fw: BBlum commentary

[C. G. Estabrook]

I agree - an excellent idea (and the flyer should of course point out that there 
are members of AWARE who agree that "abortion will terminate the life of a 
whole, separate, unique, living human being.")  --CGE


Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> Wow, Mort, this is really a great idea!!! --Jenifer
> 
> --- On *Mon, 3/8/10, Morton K. Brussel /<brussel at illinois.edu>/* wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu> Subject: [Peace-discuss] BBlum
> commentary To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> Date:
> Monday, March 8, 2010, 6:26 PM
> 
> This is the first section:. It would make an interesting op-ed in our local
> news sheet, or as a hand-out on 1 Main. --mkb
> 
> 
> Informed consent
> 
> About half the states in the US require that a woman seeking an abortion be
> told certain things before she can obtain the medical procedure. In South
> Dakota, for example, until a few months ago, staff was required to tell
> women: "The abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique,
> living human being"; the pregnant woman has "an existing relationship with
> that unborn human being," a relationship protected by the U.S. Constitution
> and the laws of South Dakota; and a "known medical risk" of abortion is an 
> "increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide." A federal judge has now
> eliminated the second and third required assertions, calling them "untruthful
> and misleading." ^1 <http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer79.html#note-1>
> 
> I personally would question even the first assertion about a fetus or an
> embryo being a human being, but that's not the point I wish to make here. I'd
> like to suggest that before a young American man or woman can enlist in the
> armed forces s/he must be told the following by the staff of the military
> recruitment office:
> 
> "The United States is at war [this statement is always factually correct].
> You will likely be sent to a battlefield where you will be expected to do
> your best to terminate the lives of whole, separate, unique, living human
> beings you know nothing about and who have never done you or your country any
> harm. You may in the process lose an arm or a leg. Or your life. If you come
> home alive and with all your body parts intact there's a good chance you will
> be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Do not expect the
> government to provide you particularly good care for that, or any care at
> all. In any case, you may wind up physically abusing your spouse and children
> and/or others, killing various individuals, abusing drugs and/or alcohol, and
> having an increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide. No matter how bad a
> condition you may be in, the Pentagon may send you back to the battlefield
> for another tour of duty. They call this 'stop-loss'. Your only alternative
> may be to go AWOL. Do you have any friends in Canada? And don't ever ask any
> of your officers what we're fighting for. Even the generals don't know. In 
> fact, the generals /especially/ don't know. They would never have reached
> their high position if they had been able to go beyond the propaganda we're
> all fed, the same propaganda that has influenced you to come to this office."
> 
> 
> Since for so many young people in recent years one of the determining factors
> in their enlistment has been the economy, this additional thought should be
> pointed out to them — "You are enlisting to fight, and perhaps die, for a
> country that can't even provide you with a decent job, or any job at all."
> 
> "I fear for us all, but I especially fear for those already poor. How much
> lower can they go without being cannon fodder or electric chair fodder or
> street litter or prison stuffing or just plain lonely suicide?" /– Carolyn
> Chute, novelist, Maine USA/
> 
> 
> For the rest, see http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer79.html
> 
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