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- From: regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Who is this reference?
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 16:51:18 -0700
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- In article <1992Jul22.211417.17188@menudo.uh.edu> HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes:
- >In <14kenaINNb11@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@sdd.hp.com writes:
- >[lots deleted that basically comes to this:
-
- Well, it's quicker.
-
- >> Why? Why do you feel abortion is wrong, Jim? Take that paragraph you wrote
- >> about two weeks ago, and insert a why after every sentence. Then try to answer
- >> them. That would make more interesting reading.
- >
- > Hey ho! The crux of the matter. I'll leave out the religion, as you're not
- >a believer (that *was* you wasn't it?). Let's keep it real simple for time.
- >A fetus represents, at the very least, a potential human being. I feel said
- >potential deserves a shot at life, be it accidental or not. Destroying that
- >potential is wrong, unless to preserve an actual in reasonably proximate
- >danger.
-
-
- Since this is a public forum, and one of your four frameworks, I'll now give
- you my viewpoint, and you are free to do with it as you will. Note that while
- I disagree with you, I am not saying you are "wrong".
-
- (how's that for a disclaimer! Yuk!)
-
- Each and every egg in my body has the potential to become a human being. I
- will mature some 360 of them in my lifetime. Each one of those eggs is
- pretty damned unique, and would contribute to a pretty damned unique human
- being. I have borne two of those eggs to term -- I know whereof I speak.
-
- I also know about the *cost* of bearing those eggs to term. I've analyzed
- those costs on a number of occasions, because I rather like children and
- would enjoy having more, but I'm not going to have more because I cannot
- afford more.
-
- Yet those individual, magical, potential eggs just keep maturing, month
- by month. And will continue to do so.
-
- Of course, if I were to become pregnant this month (with Heidi, just say),
- little Frankie, who would have matured next month, won't. Heidi's pregnancy
- precludes Frankie. For each of the children I did bear, I did not mature
- 8-14 eggs (I really can't recall when I began menstruating again after having
- my girls. Something along those lines). And, of course, I intend to let
- little Gus and Mable just pass out in their Natural path, unfertilized,
- in the future. So, two eggs fulfilled their potential. 358 eggs will not.
-
- And that's a much better fruition ratio than men have (-:.
-
- *MOST* potential WRT sperm and eggs goes nowhere. MUCH of the potential
- with fertilized eggs goes nowhere (maybe even most there, too. There is
- disagreement on this point).
-
- Yet, there are MILLIONS - ooops - BILLIONS of people on this planet. We
- aren't hurting for magic.
-
- I don't see a single solitary reason to bind the real, thinking, breathing
- woman, who is a miracle in her own right, based on my notion of potentiality.
- That's why I oppose abortion restriction, and a part of why I don't think
- abortion is 'bad'. Abortion is a response to a pregnancy. There are other
- perfectly valid responses, but there isn't anything wasteful or sinful or
- any-thing-else-ful about abortion itself, any more than about contraception
- or abstinence. They are all the same thing.
-
- See you tomorrow.
-
- Adrienne Regard
-
-