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- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: More questions for Suzanne or other pro-life parent
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:33:43 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9208252333.45@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Aug15.194628.2118@brandonu.ca> <1992Aug20.223004.13850@noao.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.223004.13850@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article <1992Aug15.194628.2118@brandonu.ca>, by mcbeanb@brandonu.ca:
- >> (Suzanne Forgach):
- >>
- >>> She will be going to an NFP class at the first sign of her first cycle,
- >>> and she will know exactly how her body works, how boys' bodies work,
- >>> and where babies come from.
- >>
- >> Excuse my ignorance (I don't read all articles on ta), but what is NFP, and
- >> why do you have to wait til her first cycle?
- >
- >Natural Family Planning. Certainly she will know about it, but she cannot
- >possibly observe her own body's cyclic fertility changes (much less chart
- >them) if she doesn't even have cycles yet.
-
- This sounds like "1984".
-
- >> Why not educate her before
- >> and spare her the fear and ignorance, even if it only lasts a day or so?
- >
- >Oh puleez. She will have neither ignorance nor fear. It's just physically
- >impossible for a female with no cycles to chart cycles.
-
- What he is saying is, why not tell her about the female cycle, menstruation,
- etc before the fact instead of allowing her to go through an experience like
- Carrie in the Stephen Kimg book of the same name.
-
- >> Also, just wondering if this education includes info about contraception
- >> because if she were provided with that in the first place, then maybe she
- >> wouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place, and none of your
- >> grandchildren will have been killed.
- >
- >Natural Family Planning is AS effective in avoiding pregnancy as that
- >popular contraceptive the "pill" for married regular participants in sex.
- >Even moreso for a pre-teenage virgin.
-
- And pigs have wings.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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