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- From: pettit@cs.unc.edu (Cynthia Pettit)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Subject: Re: Description of the Fetal Remains from an Abortion
- Message-ID: <17672@borg.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:36:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.234644.9072@ncsu.edu>
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- Oh, man... I've been waiting for a thread on abortion...
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- First of all, you were >asking< to get flamed (or perhaps >I< am the gullable
- one... ;) )
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- And second, this alt.romance, not an talk.abortion...
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- And with that out of the way, I must say something to prolifers. Abortion is
- no new 20th century medical advance. Women have been giving themselves
- miscarriages and abortions from time eternal. The advance is making it safe
- for the woman -- clean, safe and under the guidence of a professional doctor.
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- The fact about making abortion illegal is not reducing the number of
- abortions in this country -- but reducing the number of >safe< abortions. If
- abortion is to become illegal, women >will< use coathangers in the back
- allys... You can't denigh it.
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- If you agree to making abortion illegal you are agreeing for this to happen.
- There's no other way to look at it. It is saying, "I want abortion to be
- unhealthy, dirty and life threatening to women..." Go ahead and argue that
- it's the women's fault. It's not the issue here.
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- The point is not whether abortions >should< happen or not, because they
- >will< no matter what you do -- the issue is do you >want< the death and
- mutilation of women?
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- And as for your posting, if you are trying to scare women furthur by this
- disgusting description, you are helping to keep women afraid of their bodies
- and feeling guilty for their own sexuality.
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- If you really want to save a baby's life, go adopt one. And I don't mean a
- nice healthy white, middle-class child -- go adopt a poor, black or hispanic
- cocaine baby if you feel such tremendous compassion.
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- Do something real besides making it harder for women to love themselves and
- their ability to create a life -- and not hate themselves and their own
- flesh.
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- If you really want to do some good, work to >forward< alternatives to
- abortion, not undermine abortion itself. Work for free birth-control, work
- to promote the adoption of minority babies, work for the support of single
- mothers in the streets, educate and train a woman for a better job.
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- Do some >good< for a change. The world needs less hate from people like you.
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- Cyn
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- Pro-child, pro-choice!
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