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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: control
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:12:32 -0800
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- In article <lm8rioINNgt7@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
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- >stuff deleted.
-
- >>>Were it up to me, I
- >>>would look for another alternative.
-
- >>Can you tell us what other alternatives occur to you?
-
- >I admit, not a whole lot. Embryo transplants. "Metal mommas". Better
- >contraceptives. I fear our medical expert, Mark Cochran (who _still_
- >won't tell me what T.S.A.K.C. stands for), could knock most of my ideas
- >down as impractical, since he could argue circles around me when it
- >comes to the medical profession.
-
- >But then, I'm just one person, and a CS major at that. There _are_
- >other people working on "another alternative", people who are more
- >qualified than I.
-
- One presumes you are old enough to vote, or soon, anyhow. GIVEN that there
- are no metal mommas, and contraceptives are not yet 'better', and embryo
- transplants have their own limitations (a lack of receiving wombs being one
- of them), how do you propose we handle the alternatives available TODAY?
-
- >It seems the majority of the population sees this is a problem with only
- >two solutions: either the fetus gets its life, or the mother gets her
- >privacy.
-
-
- Today, I'd agree with most of the population that this is the nature of our
- problem, myself. Sorta Kinda. Afterall, women who want children allow the
- fetus its life, and the mother retains her privacy -- it's just that the
- privacy includes the fetus. We are really only speaking of the other 94% of
- the female population. Yeah, that group. The group of adult women who don't
- want to become pregnant, which is most of us.
-
- We don't have that whiz bang technology yet that will render this argument
- moot. So what do *you* propose we do? I propose that we let individuals
- settle the matter individually, according to their own consciences.
-
- Adrienne Regard
-
-