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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: Only God Can Help Us!
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- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 06:35:10 GMT
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- In <nyikos.715296853@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- > In <1992Aug26.112909.25187@rigel.econ.uga.edu> mills@uga.edu (Kathi Mills) write
- >
- > >Top Ten Reasons For Members of A Male-Dominated, Male-Worshipping
- > >Religion to Oppose Abortion
- >
- > >1. Abortion frees women from getting married because of pregnancy and
- > > thus deprives men of an easy way to capture domestic servants.
- >
- > 1*. Abortion frees men from having to get married, or as they used to
- > say, "Do the right thing by the girl you got pregnant."
-
- But it's the woman's choice.
-
- > >2. Abortion allows many women to complete their college education,
- > > and thus realize that they don't have to be men's domestic servants.
- >
- > That assumes they don't get injured or so emotionally scarred by the
- > abortion that they can keep their mind on their studies.
-
- A reasonable assumption, considering the unlikelihood of either.
-
- > >3. Abortion allows many women to keep and move up in their careers,
- > > thus freeing them from the necessity of relying on a man for money.
- >
- > what percentage of abortions are done on career women?
-
- A woman with a career is not a career woman.
-
- > These are the women who can afford to fly to Sweden,
- > or wherever, to get an abortion that is a lot safer than what you can
- > count on in the USA.
-
- Not if they're working in a low-paying profession and barely making
- enough to cover their cost of living.
-
- > >4. Abortion provides sexually active women with total control over
- > > their reproductive destinies.
- >
- > Unless the abortion makes them sterile.
-
- There is no evidence of problems with later childbearing among women who
- have an early abortion performed by the most common method - vacuum aspiration.
-
- > >5. Abortion provides rape victims with a way of escaping the additional
- > > torture of carrying her rapist's child to term.
- >
- > While suffering the torture of an abortion, which is like a second rape
-
- This strikes me as incredibly ignorant and offensive, trivializing the
- horrors of rape. The woman who goes in for an abortion to terminate a
- pregnancy resulting from rape is *not* being forced.
-
- > >7. Abortion ofte saves women's mental health.
- >
- > Abortion often destroys women's mental health.
-
- "Often"? Do you have any numbers to back this up? I think it would be
- more accurate to say "rarely". (I think it would be even *more* accurate
- to say that being coerced to take an irrevocable action which you later
- regret can destroy one's mental health, *regardless* of what that action
- is.)
-
- > >8. Abortion enables women to live free, independent lives, to have more
- > > of an opportunity to get involved with politics and move up the
- > > corporate ladder, evetually opening doors for other women and
- > > ultimately destroying men's straglehold on the money and power in
- > > this country.
- >
- > Contraception and natural family planning do it better.
-
- Clearly they should be the first wall of defense.
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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