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- From: regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: WHO OWNS WHO?...or is it whom?...or what?
- Date: 13 Aug 1992 11:23:43 -0700
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- In article <1992Aug13.155229.7513@menudo.uh.edu> HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes:
- > Ahem. Every now and then I am reminded to dot my i's and cross my t's.
- >Allow me to be painfully specific. My real issue was with the words "ruin
- >a person's life". This implies that pregnancy will almost certainly "ruin"
- >your life physically, emotionally and financially.
-
- No, it implies that an unwanted pregnancy will almost certainly affect the
- woman's life physically, emotionally and financially.
-
- > I was merely bringing Gordon's statement to heel. Unwanted (or even wanted,
- >for that matter) pregnancies CAN do all these things--with the effect of "ruin."
- >But it is NOT a certainty. Or highly likley.
-
- How can you tell?
-
- How can you, Jimmy, who have never sat through an unwanted pregnancy, tell
- what is 'highly likely' with any certainty? If I had to figure who would have
- a better picture about this, you or a pregnant woman, I'd vote for the
- pregnant woman.
-
- Adrienne Regard
-