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- From: eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Subject: Re: Abortion vs. Adoption
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.232601.15631@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Aug26.235004.28255@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Aug28.152616.972@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:26:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.152616.972@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de () writes:
- >eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley) writes:
-
- >: 2) If you abort a e/f, you never *have* a child in the first place; if
- >: you give a child up for adoption, you do have a child (and for better
- >: or worse, will probably think of him/her for the rest of your life).
-
- >And an abortion will slip her mind?
-
- Certainly not. I'm not discussing whether abortion or giving birth is
- emotionally easier in the short term here; I'm saying that - for
- *most* people - an abortion is over and done with, whereas the
- knowledge that someone else is raising your child is with you for the
- rest of your life (N.B. this is not necessarily bad!).
-
- >Regardless of whether you *think*
- >the e/f is a person or not, I'd say a lot of women who have abortions
- >*feel* that it is/was. The head is happy but the heart's insane,
- >as the song goes. You don't bring a woman who has recently had an
- >abortion to the local kid's playground. Why is that?
-
- I think it rather depends on the woman.
-
- >Whether this represents a profound truth about abortion, or just
- >society's conditioning of the mother, I couldn't say. But why
- >should it be that a woman can control her intellect sufficiently
- >to rebel against society's norms (in my country abortion is illegal)
- >and not her emotions?
-
- Do you think that maybe some people start with their premises and from
- them decide that abortion is not wrong, rather than starting with the
- conclusion that abortion is okay and picking the premises to suit?
- (Hint: I basically don't think abortion is wrong, and I pride myself
- on intellectual honesty.)
-
- --
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
- Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
-