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- From: stevens@eatdust (John Stevens)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: Observations
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.040616.12841@advtech.uswest.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 04:06:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep4.155146.22085@nas.nasa.gov> dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King) writes:
- >
- >js>In article <1992Sep3.153405.26663@advtech.uswest.com> stevens@eatdust (John Stevens) writes:
- >dk>In article <1992Sep1.210729.22561@nas.nasa.gov> dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King) writes:
- >
- >dk>If the fetus's father has the right to deny the woman an abortion, doesn't
- >dk>that give him the say in when the woman gives birth?
- >
- >js>Nope. Let me ask you to work this out for yourself. How does a woman
- >js>control when she is going to give birth?
- >
- >I see the woman having two ways to control when she gives birth. First
- >she can take control over activity prior to conception. These could
- >include birth control or abstinence. None of these methods are 100%
- >reliable, so in reality the woman has no real control here.
-
- Excuse me!? Am I reading this right 'abstinence is not a 100% reliable
- form of birth control'?!
-
- Uhh, you didn't REALLY mean that, did you? Or are you, by chance,
- a Catholic?
-
- >The other
- >method is after conception. The woman can control when she gives birth
- >by using abortion. You want to remove the woman's control post-conception
- >and only leave her the pre-conception, less than 100% reliable method,
- >to control when she gives birth. You give the man control over the 100%
- >reliable method.
-
- Yup. You did mean it. Might I suggest a good biology book. . .
-
- And no, you don't get it. I want the man and woman to have EQUAL say,
- not give wrest control from the woman and give it solely to the man.
-
- >Luckily for the woman of the world, there is not enough misogynists
- >that this will ever fly.
-
- Ooooooh!!! As if calling me a misogynist will magically make me
- become one!
-
- >Dan King
-
- John
- stevens@uswest.com
-