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- From: regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Observations
- Date: 20 Aug 1992 08:14:33 -0700
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- References: <1992Aug19.210947.26366@spdc.ti.com> <16ujc6INNm80@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1992Aug20.143920.4375@spdc.ti.com>
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- In article <1992Aug20.143920.4375@spdc.ti.com> serafin@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mike Serafin) writes:
- >In article <16ujc6INNm80@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
-
- >>4 years ago, about, while using *two* (*count 'em*) TWO birth control
- >>methods, I became pregnant.
- >...
- > You may have been taking responsible precautions to prevent a pregnancy.
- > But did you really consider the possibility of a failure beforehand?
-
- Oh, gee, thanks, Mike. "may have"......
-
- Now, Mike, take 2 minutes for a moment here and ask yourself, "Why was she
- using *two* methods?"
-
- >>And I also dare you to state in front of this audience, or any other for
- >>that matter, that a healthy adult woman in a serious long term relationship
- >>with the father of her children should be just telling that fellow "no,
- >>no more sex, bub, at least not until menopause" (and even THEN you can
- >>have an oddly-fired egg or two!).
- >
- > Since you both seem to agree that no more children is in your best
- > interests, what about sterilization?
-
- Because, Mike, if Jon's income dramatically increases while I'm still able,
- I'd love to have a third child. That's why. But not until I know we can
- afford to raise it *properly*.
-
- > Because is isn't convenient at this time? There's a hell of a reason
- > to kill a potential human life.
-
- Best reason I can think of, given that your definition of 'convenience'
- obviously includes *rational* *sensible* contingency planning for adult
- humans. Given that your definition of 'convenient' seems to include
- ignoring the needs of the people you *already* brought into the world!
-
- You seem to think that a 40-year old woman, throwing her hands up into the
- air and declaiming, "OOops!" is being 'responsible'. I disagree, completely.
-
- > On the subject of celibacy between married couples. Why is it that
- > we seem to think marriage is something less without sex?
-
- Because we are having it? Because we like it? Because we are human?
-
- Why do the pro-life seem to think that sex MUST equal pregnancy? That
- the *only* point to sex is procreation?
-
- Adrienne Regard
-
-