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  1. Newsgroups: alt.feminism
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!castor.cs.psu.edu!beaver
  3. From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
  4. Subject: Re: Child Support
  5. Message-ID: <By6n7I.JAz@cs.psu.edu>
  6. Keywords: abortion
  7. Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: castor.cs.psu.edu
  9. References: <1992Nov15.041315.7218@microsoft.com> <1e8s58INN316@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov19.061717.27204@microsoft.com>
  10. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:54:54 GMT
  11. Lines: 16
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  13. In article <1992Nov19.061717.27204@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
  14.  
  15. >A harder choice would be if I had been advised to abort for medical 
  16. >reasons...if he were abortion-is-murder, telling him then might
  17. >cause him pain for no reason.
  18.  
  19. IMHO:  I'd hope you'd tell him anyway, since it's not really
  20. for "no reason."  Life has its pains, and it shows more respect
  21. for someone to let them deal with their pains (even unavoidable ones)
  22. than to assume a burden unilaterally out of compassion.
  23.  
  24. (Where's the Hallmark store when you need it?)
  25.  
  26. Don
  27. -- 
  28. beaver@cs.psu.edu                       Opinions from the PC-challenged
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