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- From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
- Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.men,alt.feminism,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Muffy becomes anti-choice (absolutely false)
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:20:07
- Organization: Natural Language Incorporated
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- Message-ID: <MUFFY.92Dec21182007@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Dec16.193426.19660@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- In-reply-to: holzman@d0gslb.fnal.gov's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:05:38 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec21.190538.1@d0gslb.fnal.gov> holzman@d0gslb.fnal.gov (Daniel B. Holzman) writes:
- >In article <MUFFY.92Dec18125621@remarque.berkeley.edu>,
- >muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >> No, you have not "chosen to not reproduce" when you have sex using birth
- >> control. You have simply chosen to take a "1/5/10/etc percent *chance*
- >> of reproducing" (the actual percentage depends on the type of birth
- >> control chosen and how well you use it). If you gamble and lose, then
- >> you have to deal with the consequences.
- >>
- >>>And if the birth control fails, then it's certainly
- >>>a responsible decision to stick with your original choice.
- >>
- >> Exactly. The choice of "taking a small chance of reproducing."
-
- >Gee, Muffy, does this mean that you're anti-abortion?
-
- Nope. I consider abortion to be *one way* of "dealing with the
- consequences." A perfectly fine way, by the way, but not by any means
- the only one. All I'm saying is that *both* people have do "deal with
- the consequences," not *just* women.
-
- Muffy
- --
-
- Muffy Barkocy | ~Can you tell me how much bleeding/it
- muffy@mica.berkeley.edu | takes to fill a word with meaning and/
- "amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm | how much how much death it takes/to give
- not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| a slogan breath?~ - Bruce Cockburn
-