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- From: mills@uga.edu (Kathi Mills)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: control
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.102619.11915@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 10:26:19 GMT
- Sender: news@rigel.econ.uga.edu
- Organization: University of Georgia Economics Department
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- >Nyikos
- >> Ferrari
-
- >>>One of the third ways: use natural family planning, and in the highly
- >>>unlikely event of pregnancy, embrace the child or give it up for adoption.
-
- >>So, in other words, YES, you feel that sinnnce the woman "failed to conntrol
- >>herself," she SHOULD be enslaved to her body.
-
- >Not quite. I was trying to guess what Suzanne would say and save her
- >the trouble. Seems from the context that "you" kept referring to her,
- >not me.
-
- Don't try to speak for anyone but yourself.
-
- >My position is different. I am against banning contraception,
- >morning-after pills, IUD's (except those things in all three categories
- >that are significantly more dangerous than what else is available, like
- >DES and the Dalkon Shield), and even abortion prior to the end of the
- >5th week.
-
- CONTRACEPTIONN IS BESIDE THE POINT!! Abortion "prior to the end of the 5th
- week" is basically beside the point also, since paltry few women know
- that they are pregnant by that time, much LESS have time to make up their
- minds about it (abortion is NOT a snap decision), AND get to the abortion
- clinic, when antis keep passing abortion restrictions and generally making
- it extremely difficult to get to a clinic. This 5-week abortion grace
- period you so generously bestow upon us is nothinng but a mirage. What
- makes a 5-week fetus different from a 6-week onne anyway?
-
- >> Contraceptionn is NOT ann
- >>alternnative to abortion.
-
- >It's too bad so many people literally believe this, like the teenagers
- >on a recent Oprah Winfrey show who (so I'm told, correct me if I'm
- >wrong) were asked why they did not use (more?) birth control, and replied
- >that it was because they knew they could always get an abortion.
-
- Let me try this one more time, inn nice, short, sentences: Conntraception
- is NNOT an alternative to abortionn. (Pause while you look up that big
- word "contraception.") Contraception prevennts abortionn.
-
- Got it?
-
- Let's summarize in case you don't.
-
- Contraception prevents pregnancy. Contraception does not STOP a pregnancy.
-
- --
- "We have seen pictures, where there are canals, we believe, and water. If
- there's water, that means there's oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can
- breathe." - Dan Quayle, talking about Mars.
- Ferrari (mills@rolf.stat.uga.edu)
-