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- From: jbrindle@halcyon.com (Jennifer Brindle)
- Subject: Re: Abortion vs. Adoption
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.000123.529@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <1992Aug26.235004.28255@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Aug28.152616.972@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:01:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.152616.972@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de () writes:
- >
- >And an abortion will slip her mind? 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,
-
- If a woman feels that the fetus/whatever is a person, deserving of legal
- protection, and it is wrong to destroy it, then either she shouldn't have
- an abortion or be prepared to do some pretty serious dissonance reduction.
-
- I have no statistics, but I would venture a guess (based on the fact that
- most women who have abortions are sure it was the right decision) that
- they don't feel that way about the fetus.
-
- I would also venture a guess (based on what I've learned from women who
- "regret" abortions) that those women who do regret the decision were
- coerced in some manner to abort; women who made their own decisions were
- happy with their decison. Same goes for women who give birth, BTW--women
- who feel coerced in some manner to give birth have difficult feelings, but
- women who are happy to become a mother (possibly again) are happy with
- the decision. It's kinda funny how good having control over such
- basic functions of your body makes you feel.
-
-
- >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?
- >
-
- Why not? If I had an abortion, I might very well go to the playground
- soon afterwards, as I have a three-year-old who just loves playgrounds.
- Did you just make this statement up? IT sounds like it.
-
- >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?
- >
-
- Most of the folks that I know who are pro-choice DO control their emotions
- on this issue; most of the folks that I kow who are pro-life, don't, or
- can't. Most women I have known who have had abortions look at it from
- a strictly logical point of view. In fact, all of them have.
-
- What makes you think that women DON'T look at this decision logically?
-
-
- Jennifer
-