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- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Parenthood (was Re: Uniting Church)
- Message-ID: <19123.2af11f11@levels.unisa.edu.au>
- From: 9051467f@levels.unisa.edu.au (The Eidolon)
- Date: 30 Oct 92 11:40:01 +0930
- References: <9227212.5680@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <ricko.717683303@ee.uts.EDU.AU> <71.2ad2decd@whyalla.unisa.edu.au>
- Distribution: aus
- Organization: That damn kid is still here!
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- I don't feel like rewriting a whol article again so I dredged up an
- old I put in aus.religion
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- In article <71.2ad2decd@whyalla.unisa.edu.au>, 9051467f@whyalla.unisa.edu.au (Wild Child) writes:
- > In article <ricko.717683303@ee.uts.EDU.AU>, ricko@ee.uts.edu.au (Rick Jelliffe) writes:
- >> dsolly@ecr.mu.oz.au (David_James SOLLY) writes:
- >>
- >>>The Synod of the Uniting Church of New South Wales has , according to
- >
- >> It is also in the Herald today. I am shocked too.
- >
- >> often sees the dilemma in patients who come to him, in making
- >> what is too often a choice between a career (i.e. money & "standard
- >> of living") and a human life. Astounding.
- >
- > Astounding?? Not really.
- > Why is it that the mother of the child must be the one to stay home and
- > spend the rest of her life raising the child?? This is an enormous waste
- > of mental talent.
- >
- > For that matter, why should the direct bio-parents
- > be the ones to raise the child? We are all humans, this stuff about
- > genetic ties that bond is being twisted beyond belief! We are ALL genetically
- > tied, and we should ALL feel bonded to each other! This thing about ones
- > bio-parents is religious mumbo jumbo - we are not animals who latch
- > on to the first thing we see and declare it MAMA! If so, then adoptive
- > children would all be social disaster areas and the adoptive system
- > would be dismantled!
- >
- > At an abortion, the choice is not over inconvenience of birth but wether
- > or not the mother is prepared to drop everything she has built up
- > and devote her ENTIRE LIFE to someone else! Personally, I think that
- > if the current system of forcing women to raise children, we would see
- > a damnsight fewer abortions.
- >
- > --
- > John McVey, Whyalla campus, Uni S.Australia
- > Enic Eng Student & Tekkie G1 (at 19!)
- This is old coz I'm twenty now. The sig is also ancient.
- It was also posted from my home account, not this one.
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- --
- John J McVey, Whyalla, Uni S. Australia 9051467f@levels.unisa.edu.au
- Electronic Engineering student & Terror Tekkie!
- Any email can be posted unless I state explicitly otherwise.
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